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The Netherlands is the homecountry of four globalsupersector leaders (2011-2012)Dow Jones Sustainable Index 2011Name Supersector CountryRoyal DSM N.V. Chemicals The NetherlandsPostNL N.V. Industrial Goods/Svc The NetherlandsRoyal Philips Personal &Electronics N.V. Household Goods The NetherlandsKLM Air France Travel & Leisure The Netherlands/FranceThe DJSI annually identifi es the top company in 19 supersectors.The ranking is based on a best-in-class approach, includingcompanies across all industries that outperform their peers innumerous sustainability metrics.Centre for Finance & SustainabilityThe Holland Financial Centre for Finance & Sustainabilityhas been specifi cally created to build on the forementionedtrack record and spread the knowledge gained by the Dutchfinancials on sustainable financing across the board, including:– Sustainable investing– Financing the transition to sustainable energyand clean tech including energy effi ciency– Sustainable financing– Carbon trading & financeTo spread the knowledge, the Holland Financial Centre forFinance & Sustainability is working with the Duisenbergschool of finance in Amsterdam to embed the course ‘Finance& Sustainability’ into their existing Master programs led byProfessor Noreena Herz.Professional education around Finance & Sustainability willbe developed, making it possible for companies to have theirmanagement participate in bespoke coursework on the topics.Holland Financial Centre also took the initiative to starta webportal dedicated to Finance & Sustainability(www.fsinsight.org). Please have a look at chapter 6 formore information.14
Green Investment CorporationAn important initiative HFC is working on is the GreenInvestment Corporation. Together with 17 partners (banks,pension funds, ministries, insurance companies, consultants),HFC is looking into the feasibility of a public/private partnershipthat is aimed at co-investing/financing those sustainable energyand energy effi ciency products that do not immediately gainfunding. The main goal is to work as a catalyst and acceleratethe transition towards sustainable energy and energy effi ciency.Last but not leastRecently HFC have made the publishing of the book FinancingSustainability possible. The book touches on all the four topicsof the Centre for Finance & Sustainability including CarbonTrading. It can be downloaded for free from the internet atwww.hollandfinancialcentre.com. A Mandarin version will beavailable soon.‘In order to create wealth worth having, we need to have wellinformed skilled investors and an attractive narrative of whata sustainable global economy looks like. This book will helpus better understand what we must do and how attractive theprospect is.’ (James Cameron, Executive Director and ViceChairman, Climate Change Capital)15
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