This chapter assesses whether socially responsible investing (SRI) through voluntary codes of conduct can help promote sustainable development. The financial industry has drafted, sometimes in partnership with public agencies and other stakeholders, a wide range of codes of conduct in recent...

Access to finance is crucial if we are to achieve the fundamental transition of our time: securing a safe and just society operating within the planetary boundaries. In the era of global market capitalism and deregulation, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) offer one of the few public economic...