Overview
- Offers a framework for studying green finance in the domains of accounting, banking, investing, and insurance
- Focuses on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) consequences of green financing and its role in attaining sustainable development
- Features a global list of contributors including academics, researches, and practitioners in the space
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance (SIF)
Part of the book sub series: Palgrave Studies in Green Finance (PSGF)
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About this book
This book covers green finance with a focus on the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) consequences of green financing and its role in attaining sustainable development and a carbon-neutral economy. It provides research-based practical solutions for sustainable development, as well as insights from green finance, presenting a framework for studying green finance in the domains of accounting, banking, investing, and insurance. Of interest to academics, investors, and policymakers in green finance and development and alternative financing, the book features a global cast of contributors from both academia and practice.
Keywords
- Green finance
- Environmental finance
- Financing sustainable development goals
- Trends, opportunities, and risks in sustainable finance
- Access to green finance
- FinTech in Green Finance
- Inclusive Green Finance
- Challenges in Green banking
- Sustainable investment and funding
- Green finance for financing the energy transition
- Environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance
- Sustainable Developments Agenda 2030
- Development Economics and Finance
- Green bonds, social bonds and climate bonds
- Financing Sustainability Initiatives
Table of contents (34 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Theorethical Contest of Green Finance
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Current Issues in Green Finance
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Green Finance by Regions
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ahmed Imran Hunjra has more than fifteen years of teaching and research experience across various international universities. He is currently working in the domains of corporate finance, corporate governance, and sustainability. He has published in top ranked journals. He also sits on the Editorial Board of several ABS & ABDC indexed journals. He won several research awards, including "Best Researcher Award-2023 & 2020" from Rabat Business School, Morocco, and PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan, respectively, “Outstanding Reviewer Award-2021 & 2023” by Emerald Literati, “Best Paper Award-2022 & 2023” by ICAI, among others.
John W. Goodell is Professor at the College of Business of The University of Akron, USA. His research interests focus on the impact on financial systems of national culture and institutions. In 2011, he received the Stockholm School of Economics/Women in the Academy of International Business Award for Increased Gender Awareness in International Business Research. His research has been highlighted in numerous media outlets including the Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, and Bloomberg Businessweek. Having co-authored over 200 articles, he is currently Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Research in International Business and Finance and is frequently invited to speak at international events.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Green Finance for Sustainable Development
Editors: Ahmed Imran Hunjra, John W. Goodell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65756-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-65755-9Published: 01 November 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-65758-0Due: 15 November 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-65756-6Published: 31 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-5105
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5113
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: LI, 923
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations, 77 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic Growth, Sustainable Development