ABSTRACT

This chapter provides the realm of systems finance to include the Islamic investing model. The systems finance approach is expected to have a positive impact on three clearly delineated entities: people, through social benefits, profit, through a financial upside, and the planet, through sustainability and carbon negativity. In expanding systems finance beyond carbon negativity to include other models of sustainability, it may seem as though it has a significant overlap with the goals of sustainable finance. By combining technical discoveries with industrial symbiosis, systems finance is envisaged to "create new categories of investment in climate solutions through the colocation and co-development of technologies and their applications". Indeed, EcoEnergy's business model is particularly attractive for an investor who has a penchant for sustainability, whether it is environmental, social or financial, or even a combination of all three.