Prof. Dr. Timo Busch
Timo Busch is professor for business administration at University of Hamburg and senior fellow at the Center for Sustainable Finance and Private Wealth of University of Zurich. Before he worked for ETH Zürich and the Wuppertal Institute. He is member of the steering committee on the Science Platform Climate Protection advising the German government as well as member of the editorial board of the journals Organization & Environment, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business Strategy and the Environment.
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Policy Brief
PB 5/2024: Biodiversity and Financial Risk Assessments
The rapid loss of biodiversity is threatening the ecosystem services that many industries rely on, also posing significant risks to financial institutions and the overall…
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Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting
PB 4/2022: Key observations about the open EU consultation on the functioning of the EU ESG ratings market
The European Commission has launched a consultation on the functioning of the ESG ratings market in the European Union and on the consideration of ESG…
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Policy Brief, Sustainability Reporting
PB 3/2022: Raising transparency through TCFD-aligned climate reporting
The availability of consistent and comparable climate-related information is a decisive factor in considering the effects of climate change for business and investment decisions. The…
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Scientific publication
Business Strategy and the Environment: Between impact and returns: private investors and the sustainable development goals
We investigate the expectations of wealthy private investors regarding the impact and financial return of sustainable investments. Our paper focuses on the sustainable development goals…
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Scientific publication
SN Business & Economics: Impact investments: a call for (re)orientation
Practitioners and academics have been using different terms to describe investments in the sustainability context. The latest inflationary term is impact investments—investments that focus on…
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