Green Finance and the Challenges of Climate Change

This book offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of green finance as a key lever in addressing the global climate crisis and supporting sustainable development. It provides a timely analysis of financial innovations, regulatory frameworks, and strategic responses that shape the evolving green finance landscape across diverse regions and sectors. The edited volume bridges academic research, financial practice, and policy insight to assess how capital can effectively mobilise toward climate action. Key topics include low-carbon economic transitions, the role of financial institutions and central banks, technological innovation, carbon pricing, emissions trading systems, public-private partnerships, and the financing of renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. The book, incorporating robust empirical evidence, policy analysis, and innovative methodological approaches, identifies best practices and critical gaps that must be addressed to scale green finance. Written by an international consortium of scholars and practitioners, this volume is an essential resource for academics in finance, economics, sustainability, and environmental studies, policymakers, institutional investors, financial regulators, and professionals engaged in sustainable finance, climate risk management, and ESG investing.