Bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, global health crises, species extinction and growing inequalities cause consternation and insecurity for many people, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. This book explains in simple but precise terms, aided by Ruedi Baur’s concise illustrations, what “finance” is, and how its most innovative form, sustainable finance, can reconcile the well-being of mankind with the capacities of our planet.
Is there a way to convince society that a fundamental transition is necessary, or even more: that it is possible? Can sustainable finance help? Financing Our Common Future offers encouraging perspectives by showing how little-known groups of financial stakeholders, such as development banks, are actively working to make sustainable finance happen. The book invites you to enjoy a journey through a multitude of situations, to question our preconceptions and to open our minds to deeper thought, so we can envision ways of moving forward.
Régis Marodon is Senior Advisor on sustainable finance at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). With a Ph.D in Development Economics, he previously performed research assignments for the World Bank. At the AFD he contributed extensively to development financing in many African, Mediterranean and Latin American countries, and was consecutively the director for Turkey, Mexico and Latin America. He joined the CEO advisory staff of the AFD in 2016 on sustainable finance matters and is an active member of many international networks on that issue.
Bad news about climate change, shrinking resources, global health crises, species extinction and growing inequalities cause consternation and insecurity for many people, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic. This book explains in simple but precise terms, aided by Ruedi Baur’s concise illustrations, what “finance” is, and how its most innovative form, sustainable finance, can reconcile the well-being of mankind with the capacities of our planet.
Is there a way to convince society that a fundamental transition is necessary, or even more: that it is possible? Can sustainable finance help? Financing Our Common Future offers encouraging perspectives by showing how little-known groups of financial stakeholders, such as development banks, are actively working to make sustainable finance happen. The book invites you to enjoy a journey through a multitude of situations, to question our preconceptions and to open our minds to deeper thought, so we can envision ways of moving forward.
Régis Marodon is Senior Advisor on sustainable finance at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). With a Ph.D in Development Economics, he previously performed research assignments for the World Bank. At the AFD he contributed extensively to development financing in many African, Mediterranean and Latin American countries, and was consecutively the director for Turkey, Mexico and Latin America. He joined the CEO advisory staff of the AFD in 2016 on sustainable finance matters and is an active member of many international networks on that issue.
