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Sustainability considers the long term environmental and other effects of an organisation's activities, seeking to ensure that they do not degrade the physical environment or other necessary conditions for well being.


The desirable qualities of predictability and confidence about future market conditions.
Sustainability has a number of important dimensions in treasury and finance, including environmental sustainability, financial sustainability and social sustainability.




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'''''Environmental''''' sustainability involves making decisions and taking actions which expressly take responsibility for the impact on the environment, and avoid depleting or degrading natural resources such as soil, water, forests, and biological diversity.


''Pensions funding.''


A pensions funding method is considered stable if it is not greatly affected by fluctuations in experience.
'''''Financial''''' sustainability is achieved when an organisation is able to earn reliable financial surpluses and generate cash in the medium and longer-term.


Financial sustainability includes the ability to pay back borrowings over time, with interest, while maintaining necessary levels of internal investment.


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''Bank funding.''  
'''''Social''''' sustainability seeks to identify and manage the impact of business and other activities on people. For example, employees, customers, suppliers, others employed by customers and suppliers, and host communities.


Sources of bank funding are considered stable if they can be depended on to remain as part of the bank's funding, including under conditions of stress.


For example, deposits by retail customers within the size limits of relevant deposit guarantee schemes are considered relatively more stable, compared with larger and professionally managed deposits.
Historically, it was often considered that there was a conflict between environmental sustainability and financial sustainability.
 
More recently, an increasingly mainstream view is that it is only environmentally sustainable businesses which are fully financially sustainable.
 
This view suggests that there need be no conflict between an organisation’s environmental and financial objectives, when a sufficiently long-term view is taken.
 
 
Sustainability is increasingly being used as a component in borrowings and credit evaluation.
 
Credit rating agencies are also taking sustainability principles into account.
 
 
:<span style="color:#4B0082">'''''Credit ratings and ESG'''''</span>
 
:"The European Commission’s Sustainable Finance High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) says that credit rating agencies should “systematically integrate” relevant environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into their credit-rating analyses, along with factors related to longer-term sustainability..."
 
:''The Treasurer, web exclusive, June 2019.''




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Deposit]]
* [[Accounting for Sustainability]] (A4S)
* [[Deposit Guarantee Scheme]]
* [[Assurance]]
* [[Experience]]
* [[B Corporation]]
* [[Flighty]]
* [[Bottom line]]
* [[Funding]]
* [[Business & Sustainable Development Commission]]
* [[High Council for Financial Stability]]
* [[Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership]]  (CISL)
* [[Leverage]]
* [[Carbon footprint]]
* [[Maturity transformation]]
* [[Climate benchmark]]
* [[Operational balances]]
* [[Climate-washing]]
* [[Retail]]
* [[Corporate social responsibility]]
* [[Run]]
* [[Corporate Sustainability Assessment]]
* [[Run rate]]
* [[Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive]]  (CSRD)
* [[Sticky]]
* [[Credit]]
* [[Stress]]
* [[Credit rating agency]]
* [[Term out]]
* [[Degradation]]
* [[Volatility]]
* [[Environmental profit and loss]]
* [[ESG investment]]
* [[EU Platform on Sustainable Finance]]
* [[Fiduciary duty]]
* [[Forum for the Future]]
* [[Global Sustainability Standards Board]]
* [[Global Sustainable Finance Council]]
* [[Global Sustainable Investment Alliance]]
* [[Greenwash]]
* [[HLEG]]
* [[International Platform on Sustainable Finance]]
* [[International Institute for Sustainable Development]]
* [[International Sustainability Standards Board]]
* [[Metaeconomics]]
* [[Moratorium]]
* [[Natural capital]]
* [[Organic]]
* [[Principles for Sustainable Insurance]]
* [[Reputational risk]]
* [[Return on Sustainability Investment]]
* [[Risk management]]
* [[SRA]]
* [[SRI]]
* [[Stakeholder]]
* [[Stewardship]]
* [[Sustainability Accounting Standards]]
* [[Sustainability Accounting Standards Board]]  (SASB)
* [[Sustainability bond]]
* [[Sustainability bond framework]]
* [[Sustainability Bond Guidelines]]
* [[Sustainability-linked bond]]
* [[Sustainability linked bond framework]]
* [[Sustainability Linked Bond Principles]]
* [[Sustainability linked financing]]
* [[Sustainability linked loan]]
* [[Sustainability Linked Loan Principles]]
* [[Sustainability performance target]]
* [[Sustainability reporting]]
* [[Sustainability themed investing]]
* [[Sustainable bond]]
* [[Sustainable Bond Market]]
* [[Sustainable debt]]
* [[Sustainable Development Goals]] (SDGs)
* [[Sustainable ]]
* [[Sustainable finance]]
* [[Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation]] (SFDR)
* [[Sustainable Finance Working Group]]
* [[Sustainable infrastructure]]
* [[Sustainable Infrastructure Foundation]]
* [[Sustainable investment]]
* [[Sustainable loan]]
* [[Technical Expert Group]]
* [[Triple bottom line]]
* [[UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association]]
* [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]]
 
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[[Category:Investment]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Ethics]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Risk_reporting]]

Revision as of 18:28, 11 July 2022

Sustainability considers the long term environmental and other effects of an organisation's activities, seeking to ensure that they do not degrade the physical environment or other necessary conditions for well being.

Sustainability has a number of important dimensions in treasury and finance, including environmental sustainability, financial sustainability and social sustainability.


Environmental sustainability involves making decisions and taking actions which expressly take responsibility for the impact on the environment, and avoid depleting or degrading natural resources such as soil, water, forests, and biological diversity.


Financial sustainability is achieved when an organisation is able to earn reliable financial surpluses and generate cash in the medium and longer-term.

Financial sustainability includes the ability to pay back borrowings over time, with interest, while maintaining necessary levels of internal investment.


Social sustainability seeks to identify and manage the impact of business and other activities on people. For example, employees, customers, suppliers, others employed by customers and suppliers, and host communities.


Historically, it was often considered that there was a conflict between environmental sustainability and financial sustainability.

More recently, an increasingly mainstream view is that it is only environmentally sustainable businesses which are fully financially sustainable.

This view suggests that there need be no conflict between an organisation’s environmental and financial objectives, when a sufficiently long-term view is taken.


Sustainability is increasingly being used as a component in borrowings and credit evaluation.

Credit rating agencies are also taking sustainability principles into account.


Credit ratings and ESG
"The European Commission’s Sustainable Finance High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) says that credit rating agencies should “systematically integrate” relevant environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria into their credit-rating analyses, along with factors related to longer-term sustainability..."
The Treasurer, web exclusive, June 2019.


See also

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