The De Gruyter Handbook of Sustainable Development and Finance explores the difficult and challenging issues confronting society and the environment, in the contexts of unprecedented climate change, bio-diversity loss and the global pandemic.

In this seminal text exploring a wide range of topics, and in the devastating wake of COVID-19, scholars and practitioners analyse the effectiveness of current and proposed actions to build a sustainable future, and the public and private finance necessary to prevent an impending planetary catastrophe.

The first section of the handbook introduces readers to the origins and evolution of sustainable development. An examination of public and private finance follows in the next two sections, presented from the perspectives of authors from both 'developed' and 'developing' countries. Climate change, one of the largest sectors of finance for sustainable development, is investigated in detail, as is the new and emerging development frontier, the 'blue' economy of the world's oceans.

Suitable for students, policymakers and the public at large, the handbook highlights the lessons learned and points the way forward for sustainable development and finance in the wake of the global pandemic, and the challenges to come.

Timothy Cadman is a Research Fellow in the Law Futures Centre and the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law at Griffith University, a Senior Research Fellow with the Earth System Governance Project and an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland. He specialises in governance of sustainable development, environmental politics and policy, climate change and natural resource management, including forestry, responsible investment and institutional performance. He works with communities and governments across the Asia-Pacific to develop governance standards for international projects and programmes.

Tapan Sarker is a Full Professor and Finance Discipline Lead at the School of Business of the University of Southern Queensland. Tapan is an internationally renowned expert in sustainability, climate finance and public financial management. His research focusses on personal and behavioural finances as well as the factors affecting the financial participation of banks in renewable energy investment and ESG investment. He is widely published, including in top tier journals, for example, the Global Finance Journal, Finance Research Letters, Australian Tax Forum, International Review of Economics & Finance, and Economic Modelling. He is a former World Bank Scholar.