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While the standards and frameworks of sustainability are critically important for a net-zero sustainable world economy, they fall short of transforming our spaceless analytical framework and equations which serve the mortal risk-averse return-maximising investor. The most commonly used tools in the field are content with adjustments to variables in our existing models. Furthermore, the logic and principles that govern the creation of money, although central to the effective conceptualisation and operationalisation of sustainability in finance, are left out of the debate. The space value of money principle and ensuing equations address the above challenges and provide the blueprints for the instruments that could be used to fund the transition. To secure the sustainability and future expansion of human productivity across time and space, planet and humanity must be made equal stakeholders in our equations of value and return.
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Papazian, A.V. (2023). Conclusion. In: Hardwiring Sustainability into Financial Mathematics. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45689-3_6
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