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* [[Accounting for Sustainability]] (A4S) | * [[Accounting for Sustainability]] (A4S) | ||
* [[Assurance]] | |||
* [[B Corporation]] | * [[B Corporation]] | ||
* [[Biodiversity]] | |||
* [[Bottom line]] | * [[Bottom line]] | ||
* [[Business & Sustainable Development Commission]] | * [[Business & Sustainable Development Commission]] | ||
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* [[Credit rating agency]] | * [[Credit rating agency]] | ||
* [[Degradation]] | * [[Degradation]] | ||
* [[Doughnut economics]] | |||
* [[Environmental profit and loss]] | * [[Environmental profit and loss]] | ||
* [[ESG investment]] | * [[ESG investment]] | ||
* [[EU Platform on Sustainable Finance]] | * [[EU Platform on Sustainable Finance]] | ||
* [[Fiduciary duty]] | * [[Fiduciary duty]] | ||
* [[Financial sustainability]] | |||
* [[Forum for the Future]] | * [[Forum for the Future]] | ||
* [[Global Sustainability Standards Board]] | * [[Global Sustainability Standards Board]] | ||
* [[Global Sustainable Finance Council]] | * [[Global Sustainable Finance Council]] | ||
* [[Global Sustainable Investment Alliance]] | * [[Global Sustainable Investment Alliance]] | ||
* [[Green finance]] | |||
* [[Greenwash]] | * [[Greenwash]] | ||
* [[HLEG]] | * [[HLEG]] | ||
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* [[International Institute for Sustainable Development]] | * [[International Institute for Sustainable Development]] | ||
* [[International Sustainability Standards Board]] | * [[International Sustainability Standards Board]] | ||
* [[Least Developed Countries Fund]] (LDCF) | |||
* [[Liquidity and Sustainability Facility]] (LSF) | |||
* [[Metaeconomics]] | * [[Metaeconomics]] | ||
* [[Moratorium]] | * [[Moratorium]] | ||
* [[Natural capital]] | * [[Natural capital]] | ||
* [[Nature loss]] | |||
* [[Organic]] | * [[Organic]] | ||
* [[Principles for Sustainable Insurance]] | * [[Principles for Sustainable Insurance]] | ||
* [[Reputational risk]] | * [[Reputational risk]] | ||
* [[Return on Sustainability Investment]] | * [[Return on Sustainability Investment]] | ||
* [[Reverse logistics]] | |||
* [[Risk management]] | * [[Risk management]] | ||
* [[SRA]] | * [[SRA]] | ||
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* [[Sustainability bond framework]] | * [[Sustainability bond framework]] | ||
* [[Sustainability Bond Guidelines]] | * [[Sustainability Bond Guidelines]] | ||
* [[Sustainability breach]] | |||
* [[Sustainability Disclosure Requirements]] (SDR) | |||
* [[Sustainability-linked bond]] | * [[Sustainability-linked bond]] | ||
* [[Sustainability linked bond framework]] | * [[Sustainability linked bond framework]] | ||
* [[Sustainability Linked Bond Principles]] | * [[Sustainability-Linked Bond Principles]] | ||
* [[Sustainability linked financing]] | * [[Sustainability linked financing]] | ||
* [[Sustainability linked loan]] | * [[Sustainability linked loan]] | ||
* [[Sustainability Linked Loan Principles]] | * [[Sustainability-Linked Loan Principles]] | ||
* [[Sustainability performance target]] | * [[Sustainability performance target]] | ||
* [[Sustainability provision]] | |||
* [[Sustainability reporting]] | * [[Sustainability reporting]] | ||
* [[Sustainability themed investing]] | * [[Sustainability themed investing]] | ||
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* [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] | * [[World Business Council for Sustainable Development]] | ||
[[Category:Long_term_funding]] | [[Category:Long_term_funding]] | ||
[[Category:Manage_risks]] | [[Category:Manage_risks]] | ||
[[Category:Risk_reporting]] | [[Category:Risk_reporting]] | ||
[[Category:The_business_context]] | |||
Latest revision as of 03:59, 31 March 2024
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
- Accounting for Sustainability (A4S)
- Assurance
- B Corporation
- Biodiversity
- Bottom line
- Business & Sustainable Development Commission
- Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
- Carbon footprint
- Climate benchmark
- Climate-washing
- Corporate social responsibility
- Corporate Sustainability Assessment
- Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
- Credit
- Credit rating agency
- Degradation
- Doughnut economics
- Environmental profit and loss
- ESG investment
- EU Platform on Sustainable Finance
- Fiduciary duty
- Financial sustainability
- Forum for the Future
- Global Sustainability Standards Board
- Global Sustainable Finance Council
- Global Sustainable Investment Alliance
- Green finance
- Greenwash
- HLEG
- International Platform on Sustainable Finance
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- International Sustainability Standards Board
- Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF)
- Liquidity and Sustainability Facility (LSF)
- Metaeconomics
- Moratorium
- Natural capital
- Nature loss
- Organic
- Principles for Sustainable Insurance
- Reputational risk
- Return on Sustainability Investment
- Reverse logistics
- Risk management
- SRA
- SRI
- Stakeholder
- Stewardship
- Sustainability Accounting Standards
- Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
- Sustainability bond
- Sustainability bond framework
- Sustainability Bond Guidelines
- Sustainability breach
- Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR)
- 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 provision
- 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
