COVID-19: navigating sustainability risks in the pandemic
The Misum article, Sustainability, Covid-19 and keeping focused on the longer term explores the negative consequences of social distancing, lockdowns of economies and related governmental responses to the health crisis. It argues that a more holistic picture must be kept in mind when navigating out of the crisis.
The authors emphasize two main ways through which Covid-19 poses challenges to the development of more sustainable markets. The first channel is centered around the amplification of social inequalities while the second focuses on detrimental effects on strategic, long-term investments into sustainability by firms and governments. This short article assesses the impact of Covid-19 on the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and discusses the likely long-term consequences, offering examples of controls that can help withstand the worst impacts.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
The article was written by the following Misum affiliated researchers.
- Martina Björkman Nyqvist is Executive Director of Misum and Associate Professor at the Department of ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ at ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ (SSE).
- Pamela Campa is Assistant Professor of ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ at Stockholm Institute of Transitional Economies (SITE).
- Emilia Cederberg is Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting at SSE.
- Tatiana Egorova is a PhD candidate at the House of Innovation at SSE.
- Michael Halling is Associate Professor at the Department of Finance and Swedish House of Finance at SSE.
- Sarah Jack is the Jacob and Marcus Wallenberg Professor of Innovative and Sustainable Business Development at the House of Innovation at SSE.
- Henrik Nilsson is Professor at the Department of Accounting at SSE.
- Mattias Nordqvist is Professor of Business Administration at the House of Innovation at SSE.
- Anders Olofsgård is Associate Professor at SITE.
- Maria Perrotta Berlin is Assistant Professor at SITE.
- Marek Reuter is Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting at SSE.
- Abhijeet Singh is Assistant Professor at the Department of ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ at SSE
- Emma Sjöström is Research Fellow at the Department of Marketing and Strategy at SSE.
- Torkel Strömsten is Associate Professor at the Department of Accounting at SSE and Visiting Professor KTH Royal Institute of Technology
ABOUT SWEDEN THROUGH THE CRISIS
Published by ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ, Sweden through the crisis is a comprehensive research-based report on economics, business and policy. It offers a solid academical perspective, independent from both politics and the corporate sector.
The report includes more than 40 articles by around 50 well-merited researchers – among them Tore Ellingsen, Professor of ¹û¶³ÊÓƵ, and Per Strömberg, Professor of Finance, both on the Committee for the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
