ESG Integration and SRI Strategies in the EU: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development

1. Introduction -- 2. Theory of Socially Responsible Investment: A Review -- 3. The Performance of Socially Responsible Investing: A Review -- 4. SRI: An insight on the evolution of its definition and a focus on the European ESG Regulation -- 5. Attractiveness of sustainable business and investments: an ethical, legal or a financial issue? -- 6. ESG Initiatives and Directors’ Fiduciary Duties -- 7. Insurance industry and sustainability preferences: contracts and products -- 8. The role of ESG on Credit Rating in the banking sector: a mediation analysis to disentangle the direct and indirect effects -- 9. The European Blue Economy Framework and Blue Bonds as new instruments of Blue Finance -- 10. The effects of the European Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation on SRI Funds: a comparison at a global level -- 11. ESG targets for the financial sector and the choice of legal instruments -- 12.Environmental, Social & Governance criteria in the Netherlands: interaction between government and the courts -- 13.The language of the European Union about SRI: a diachronic linguistic analysis (2002-2022).