Environmental Sustainability Through Finance

Using the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to gauge financial institutions’ indirect environmental impact

Master thesis (2017)

Authors

M.B. Henseler Technology, Policy and Management

Contributors

J.A. Annema (supervisor 1)
C. van Daalen (supervisor 1)
E.O. de Groot (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Technology, Policy and Management
Copyright: © 2017 Matthijs Henseler
Financial sector Sustainable Development Goals Systems design Environmental Sustainability
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Published Date

23-08-2017

Language

English

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Faculty

Technology, Policy and Management

Abstract

The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) form potentially a great communications framework for financial institutions to report on their indirect environmental sustainability performance. To date, however, no serious effort has been made to specifically assess a financial institution's indirect impact - its impact through the balance-sheets - in terms of the SDGs. Therefore, this thesis sets out to address the following objective: To introduce a prototype system, also referred to as a tool, which is capable of incorporating components of the SDGs so that they may form the criteria based on which financial institutions’ core business activity, their balance-sheets, can be assessed in terms of environmental sustainability. The result of this thesis is a prototype tool programmed in Microsoft's VBA language, aimed to fulfill this objective.