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Our Methodology – Sona Sustainability Credit Score System

Our Methodology – Sona Sustainability Credit Score System

METHODOLOGY Sona Sustainability Credit Score System (SSCSS) 24/04/2024 The methodology used to develop the Sona Sustainability Credit Score System (SSCSS) is comprehensive and systematic, focusing on incorporating various dimensions of sustainability into a...

The Generalized Sustainability Credit Rating System

The Generalized Sustainability Credit Rating System

The generalized sustainability credit rating system Brazilian Review of Finance Mar 20, 2023 Rodrigo Zeidan, Seye Onabolu New York University Shanghai, Green Circle Abstract This article describes the steps required to generalize a sustainability credit rating system...

ORGANISATIONS IN ESG AND SUTAINABILITY ANALYTICS

ORGANISATIONS IN ESG AND SUTAINABILITY ANALYTICS

SONA ANALYTICS INSIGHTS LEADING ORGANISATIONS IN ESG AND SUTAINABILITY ANALYTICS Companies operating in the ESG and Sustainability Analytics Marketplace   Sustainalytics Morningstar Sustainalytics is an independent ESG and corporate governance research, ratings...

ESG and Sustainability Reporting Frameworks

ESG and Sustainability Reporting Frameworks

SONA ANALYTICS INSIGHTS 04.01.2023 ESG AND SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING FRAMEWORKS What are the Organisations developing Sustainability Reporting Standards and Frameworks? The main investor-focused sustainability and integrated reporting organisations and initiatives have...

Why don’t asset managers accelerate ESG investing?

Why don’t asset managers accelerate ESG investing?

Why don't asset managers accelerate ESG investing? A sentiment analysis based on 13,000 messages from finance professionals Rodrigo Zeidan Received NYU Shanghai, China and Fundaç˜ao Dom, Cabral, Brazil 19 November 2021 Revised: 23 February 2022 Accepted: 9 March 2022...

Developing a Sustainability Credit Score System

Developing a Sustainability Credit Score System

Developing a Sustainability Credit Score System Rodrigo Zeidan, Claudio Boechat, Angela Fleury Received: 21 May 2013 / Accepted: 19 December 2013 / Published online: 7 January 2014 Abstract Within the banking community, the argument about sustainability and...

Obstacles to Sustainable Finance and the Covid19 Crisis

Obstacles to Sustainable Finance and the Covid19 Crisis

Obstacles to Sustainable Finance and the Covid19 Crisis Rodrigo Zeidana, NYU Shanghai, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China; Fundação Dom Cabral, Belo Horizonte, Brazil ARTICLE HISTORY Received 29 May 2020 Accepted 12 June 2020 ABSTRACT Rarely are the incentives of...

How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line by Tensie Whelan, Bruno Zappa, Rodrigo Zeidan, and Greg Fishbein SEPTEMBER 13, 2017 Humanity has an urgent need to fight climate change, and businesses can play a key role in doing so. But we recognize that,...

Considering Sustainability Opportunities in Valuation

Considering Sustainability Opportunities in Valuation

Sustainable Development Sust. Dev. (2015) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/sd.1594 Rodrigo Zeidan1* and Heiko Spitzeck2 1Fundação Dom Cabral and NYU Shanghai 2Fundação Dom Cabral ABSTRACT In this paper we present the...

Inertia and other Obstacles to Greener Banking

Inertia and other Obstacles to Greener Banking

Rodrigo Zeidan New York University Shanghai and Fundação Dom Cabral (Brazil). 1555 Century Avenue, 200122 Shanghai, China. rodrigo.zeidan@nyu.edu   Heiko Spitzeck Fundação Dom Cabral (Brazil) Av. Dr. Cardoso de Melo 1184, São Paulo, SP 04845-004, Brazil...

Socio-Economic Development and Sustainable Finance

Socio-Economic Development and Sustainable Finance

Socio-Economic Development and Sustainable Finance September 2022  Amiin Adam, Sona Analytics Socio-economic development involves identifying and addressing a country’s social and economic needs in order to improve quality of life, while also ensuring that the economy...

Socio-Environmental Development & Green Banking

Socio-Environmental Development & Green Banking

What is the link between Socio-Environmental Development and Green Banking? August 2022 Aminul Haque, Sona Analytics  Relationships between people and their environments are mutually influential: not only do people have an impact on place, but place also impacts the...

COP26 and Climate Change: Sustainability & Progress

COP26 and Climate Change: Sustainability & Progress

COP26 and Climate Change: Sustainable Finance and Social & Environmental Progress Mazharul Islam August 2022  Climate change is a more critical issue in the twenty-first century than at any time since the Ice Age. As a result of the Industrial Revolution and the...

Environmental Protection, ESG & Sustainable Finance

Environmental Protection, ESG & Sustainable Finance

Environmental Protection, ESG & Sustainable Finance Aminul Haque, July 2022  As scientists sound the alarm bells of climate change ever more loudly, companies are beginning to wake up to the dangers that threaten their businesses and industries, as well as the...

Green Economic Growth & Sustainable Finance

Green Economic Growth & Sustainable Finance

Achieving Green Economic Growth through Sustainable Finance and ESG Sustainable Investing Amiin Adam, Sona Analytics The primary economic objective of many nations is growth. A nation that achieves economic growth will be better able to meet its citizens’ needs...

Eco Efficiency and Sustainability Analytics

Eco Efficiency and Sustainability Analytics

July 2022 Mazharul Islam, Sona Analytics With the onset of the Industrial Revolution and Globalisation the world we live in has evolved rapidly over the past 100 years and even more so over the past 50 years due to technical innovation. Industrialisation has paved the...

Valuation and Sustainability:

Valuation and Sustainability:

Author: Rodrigo Zeidan Date Published: 08/09/2015Teaching corporate finance and valuation to sustainability professionals is one of my favorite classroom experiences – I teach an annual short “do’s and don’ts” for selling sustainability projects to CFOs of...

Economics of Global Business:

Economics of Global Business:

Author: Rodrigo Zeidan Date Published: 09/09/2017My new textbook Economics of Global Business brings a new perspective to the teaching of economics (all its ancillary material can be freely downloaded here). Its aim is to explain macro/international economics to...