Green Business Transformation: ESG, Sustainable and Impact Investments and New Sustainable Business Models
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 July 2024 | Viewed by 2215
Special Issue Editor
Interests: ecological economics; sustainable cities; ecosystems; evidence-based policy assessment; macroeconomic modeling; environmentally-extended input–output analysis; multi-criteria decision aid; ESG investment; new sustainable business models
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Dear Colleagues,
The multiple sustainability challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and the waste crisis clearly require ambitious goals from decision makers at different levels today: from the regional and national level to the international and corporate level. A particular role is going to be played by the sustainability transformation in business that will come through the transition from the provision of goods to the provision of services, the AI-powered transformation of our daily lives, new forms of transportation, smart construction, etc. Bloomberg has assessed the scope of Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) investments to reach USD 53 trillion by 2025. Clearly tremendous work will be required to rethink entire business models to make them more in line with the principles of sustainability: these models will need to be built with a focus on economic, environmental and social dimensions, and there will have to be new ways of appraising investment decisions and sustainability implications for strategy, marketing, finance, investment, and integrated reporting. New legislation focusing on integrated reporting is being introduced in Europe, while a massive sustainability investment package has been introduced by the Biden administration in the US. This Special Issue will be devoted to the whole spectrum of green business transformation issues, ranging from investment criteria and new business models to empirical evaluations and the comparative assessment of strategy.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Taxonomy of sustainable investments, regional trends, and priorities;
- ESG investment: analysis of trends, profitability, KPIs, and strategic implications;
- Impact investment: differences from traditional investments, additional criteria, and assessment of impact;
- New sustainable business models: transformation challenges, case studies, and specific industries;
- New sustainability regulations including: sustainability disclosure requirements, The Sustainable Finance Disclosures Regulation, EU taxonomy, The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, and ISSB Sustainability Disclosure Standards;
- Sustainable innovation in agriculture, transportation, construction, and tourism.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Stanislav Shmelev
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- ESG
- impact investment
- sustainable investment
- sustainability reporting
- business model
- sustainability KPIs
- sustainable business
- sustainability regulation
- IFRS
- ISSB
- TCFD
