Managing sustainable finance risk requires clear definition, measurement and forecasting, along with understanding its connection to financial, economic, political and legal decisions. This book considers the original definition of ESG sustainability risk adopted in key institutional documents, as an environmental, social, or governance event, or condition that, if it occurs, could cause an actual or a potential material negative impact on the value of the investment or on the value of the liability, to inform practical decision making. The purpose of the book is to provide decision makers with clear analytical and conceptual tools for ESG sustainability risk assessment as proposed by both the market and academia and assess their relative strength, along with evidence on sustainable asset pricing in debt and equity markets, the structuring of transactions and the response of institutions representing public interest. Expected readership includes decision makers in corporations, creditors, investors, policy making as well as students in MBA and graduate courses.

Focuses on the management of clearly defined sustainability risk Adapts a decision making point of view Encompasses analytics, economics and structuring

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George Christodoulakis is an academic at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester and a practitioner in the markets and policy making. He has played leading roles in the Credit Rating Agency business, served as the State Secretary for Asset Privatizations of Greece, as Advisor to the Bank of Greece and as a member of the Hellenic Corporate Governance Council. He has also held academic positions at Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London and the University of Exeter, UK. A quant financial economist by training, with doctoral and grad studies in London and grad studies in Athens, his expertise concentrates on credit, market, strategic and sustainability risk, sustainable finance, structured finance, and risk management. His research appears in top research journals and books and has published the volumes Managing Risks in the European Periphery Debt Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), The Analytics of Risk Model Validation (Elsevier, 2008), as well as the Journal of Risk Model Validation, Risk Journals since 2006.

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Part I. Measurement and Prediction of Sustainability Risk.- Chapter 1. Reconciling the Definition and Measurement of Sustainability Risk.- Chapter 2. Understanding the Market-Based Scoring and Rating Approaches to ESG Sustainability.- Chapter 3. Modelling and Forecasting Sustainability Risk: An incident-based approach.- Part II. Pricing Sustainability Risk in
Debt and Equity Instruments.- Chapter 4. The Sustainability Premium of NYSE Equities in the Presence of ESG Split Ratings.- Chapter 5. Estimating Greenium in the Chinese Bond Market Universe.- Chapter 6. Climate Risk and Sovereign Risk.- Chapter 7. Green bonds and Debt-for-Climate Swaps.- Part III. Chapter 8. Structuring Blended Finance Deals.- Chapter 9. Sustainability-Linked Bonds and Loans under EU Law: Structuring, Disclosure and PrudentialRisk Integration.- Chapter 10. EU Sustainable Finance Mechanism and the Requirements of Constitutional Governance.- Part IV. Institutional Responses of Public Interest.- Chapter 11. WWF's Role in Sustainable Finance Regulation: Catalyzing Change and Tracking Progress.- Chapter 12. European NPBIs and the Governance of Sustainable Finance Risk.- Chapter 13. Why Creditworthy Water Utilities Will be Able to Better Mitigate
Sustainability Risks.