Finding the Return on Sustainability Investments

Tensie Whelan (), Elyse Douglas and Chisara Ehiemere
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Tensie Whelan: NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, Postal: 44 West 4th Street, Suite 8-190, New York, NY 10012, http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sustainability
Elyse Douglas: NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, Postal: 44 West 4th Street, Suite 8-190, New York, NY 10012, http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sustainability
Chisara Ehiemere: NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business, Postal: 44 West 4th Street, Suite 8-190, New York, NY 10012, http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sustainability

Journal of Financial Transformation, 2022, vol. 56, 93-101

Abstract: Managing for the material environmental and social issues affecting business today requires new strategies, practices, and tools. Our research explores how to best understand and track the financial return on sustainability investments, to assist companies with their decision making, and improve their bottom-line as well as their societal impact. In this article, we explore the strategies and benefits associated with sustainable agriculture and provide case studies of how companies and farmers have benefited from sustainable sourcing, biodiversity protection, water conservation, and regenerative agriculture practices. We see consistent benefits in the form of operational efficiencies, risk mitigation, innovation and growth, customer loyalty and sales, employee retention, and productivity, amongst other drivers. In fact, sustainable business practices throughout the value chain could be characterized as driving the next wave of total quality management, and the methodology can be useful to most industry sectors.

Keywords: Environmental economics; valuation of environmental effects; climate; environment and development; environment and trade; sustainability; environmental accounts and accounting; agricultural finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q00 Q01 Q14 Q50 Q51 Q52 Q53 Q54 Q55 Q56 Q57 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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