Sustainable Finance

Abstract Sustainable finance—the integration of environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) issues into financial decisions—is an increasingly important topic. Within companies, sustainability is no longer ancillary issue confined to corporate social responsibility departments, but a CEO-level fundamental the core business. investment industry, used be exclusive domain “socially responsible investors” who had as well objectives, now mainstream includes investors with purely goals. This article introduces RF Special Issue on Sustainability. It highlights three reasons for rapid rise in sustainable finance—its relevance, its contribution nonfinancial investor tastes. then summarizes eight articles Issue, particular drawing out their contributions literature. Finally, we offer ideas future research.