Responsible Investment Banking : Risk Management Frameworks, Sustainable Financial Innovation and Softlaw Standards

Introduction -- Governance, Corporate Culture and Leadership in integrating CSR -- The cross cutting issues in the IFC Performance Standards -- The EBRD ESG Standards and their impact on the markets -- Implementing Environmental & Social Risk Management on the ground -- Translating Standards into successful implementation: Sector Policies and Equator Principles -- Consultant of the Strategic Review of Equator Principles -- An investigation on Ecosystems Services, the role of Investment Banks and investment products to foster conservation -- Public Sector Interventions to mobilize private capital for climate- friendly markets -- Implementing ESG in the Financial Sector in Russia - a Journey towards more Sustainability -- Interview: Implementing International Good Practice Standards - Pragmatism versus Philosophy -- Tipping Points - Learning from Pain -- Sustainable Private Equity investments and ESG Due Diligence Frameworks -- PRI – in principle good -- Investing in the ESIA and Stakeholder Engagement Process -- Positive Impact Business and Finance: a challenge for industries and services, a pre-eminent role for the financial sector -- Adopting EP in India -- Sustainability Reporting in China -- Sustainability on Planet Bank -- The Gender Bias in Asset Management -- Women on Board -- Corporate Social Responsibility in modern Central and Eastern Europe -- The Equator Principles – A critical analysis -- Half the footprint -double the impact -- Why not? Sustainable Finance as a question of mindset -- Managing assets in a complex environment: an innovative approach to sustainable decision-making -- Extra-financial performance made tangible handprint approach financial institutions -- Afterword. .