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Sustainable Finance Glossary
Sustainable Finance Glossary
Sustainable Finance Glossary
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ISO Standards
Acronym Name & Definition Scope Link
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Stakeholder A set of disclosed metrics that can be used by businesses to align their reporting on performance
WEF
Capitalism Metrics against ESG indicators and track their contributions towards the SDGs on a consistent basis.
Risks
Risks associated with (un)-Sustainable Finance.
Name Definition Link
Climate-Related Risk The potential negative impacts of Climate Change on a financial institution FSB-TCFD
Stranded Assets The premature writeoff of assets incompatible with a sustainable economy
ESG Risks Risk derived from noncompliance with environmental, social, or governance criteria GIIN
Impact Risk The possibility that the investment does not achieve the desired social or environmental benefits GIIN
Green themed public relations or marketing that ideceptively used to promote the perception an wikipedia:Greenwashing
Greenwashing
organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly. Wikipedia
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