Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Goals
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Energy Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2024) | Viewed by 2129
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Global economic growth brings with it an increasing demand for energy. Most energy production mainly comes from the combustion of fossil fuels, contributing to environmental pollution. This environmental pollution is responsible for global warming, and consequently, climate change. To mitigate climate change, governments encourage firms to use renewable energy sources in their production processes and produce sustainable energy products. However, public financing is currently insufficient for implementing sustainable energy systems and increased financial resources from the private sector are necessary in. order to achieve the seventh Sustainable Development Goal, which is focused on ensuring access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy. The adoption of sustainable energy systems could lead firms to enhance their corporate environment. Firms making environmental improvements could attract environmentally friendly consumers, increasing their sales and therefore their corporate financial performance. Furthermore, these firms could also attract renewable energy-related investors, causing changes in the prices of securities. Institutional investors such as thematical mutual funds and pension funds investing in these securities could satisfy the non-financial preferences of their participants while complying with their fiduciary duty of increasing their investors’ wealth. Through these investments, mutual funds can hold a significant percentage of a firm’s stocks and have the power to influence corporate decisions related to other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Thus, the Sustainable Development Goal focused on the availability of affordable and clean energy (SDG 7) is related at least to eight other Sustainable Development Goals in the business environment, that is, the removal of poverty (SDG 1), access to health services (SDG 3), gender equality (SDG 5), economic growth (SDG 8), infrastructure and industrialization (SDG 9), inequality (SDG 10), sustainable consumption and production (SDG 12), and climate action (SDG 13), each reinforcing the. other. This Special Issue, entitled “Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development Goals”, focusses on understanding the effects of renewable energy practices on business practices related to other Sustainable Development Goals from the perspectives of firms, retail investors, and institutional investors.
In this Special Issue, original research and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- renewable energy and microfinance institutions;
- the role of renewable energy business practices in the healthcare sector;
- a gender just energy transition;
- renewable energy and green finance;
- the use of real options approach in renewable energy sector investments;
- the impact of renewable energy technologies for sustainable infrastructures on corporate financial performance;
- renewable energy practices and corporate financial performance in developed and less-developed economies;
- the effect of renewable energy production and/or consumption on corporate financial performance;
- low carbon transition risk.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Carmen-Pilar Marti-Ballester
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sustainable development goals
- renewable energy
- sustainable energy systems
- firms
- institutional shareholders
- mutual funds
- pension funds
- investors’ behaviour
- financial performance
- environmental performance
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