An engaging and comprehensive look at the intersection of financial innovation and the environment This unique book provides readers with a comprehensive look at the new markets being created to help companies manage environmental risks, including weather derivatives, catastrophe bonds, and emission trading permits. Filled with real-world case studies and timely advice, Environmental Finance contains corporate strategies that financial service professionals as well as their clients must understand in order to proactively improve a company's environmental performance.

This book focuses on environmental financing in the process of alignment with the EU. Based on comparative analysis of national environmental strategies and financial needs, and their links with strategic development documents in five selected countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Turkey) the book identifies main achievements and remaining challenges in the main areas of environmental regulation: nature protection, water, waste, air and climate change. For each area the same concept is applied: current situation is presented, followed by an overview of institutional and legal frameworks. Division of competences between actors at the same or at different levels is addressed. Costs of implementation are estimated and possible sources of financing identified.

Environmental finance and green banking are central drivers of the transition to a sustainable economy and essential components in solutions to climate change. This book presents the latest research on theory and practices in these interdisciplinary fields, incorporating both public and corporate finance. It introduces three parts – environmental investing and financing, green banking and environmental policies in the public sector. The book explores the current trends, dynamics and ways forward for environmental finance and green banking, including fundamental theories (e.g., environmental Kuznets curve) and comparisons between traditional and green bond efficiency, corporate governance practices and disclosure, green central banking, climate finance, sustainable strategies, green Islamic banking, and public climate fund management in multi-country contexts. The contributors to this book highlight significant challenges ahead while recognizing potential opportunities, such as the revolution in green investments and trading in green bonds. This book is a welcome addition to the literature on environmental economics and finance and the economics of sustainability and climate change.

This textbook provides an introduction to environmental finance and investments. The current situation raises fundamental questions that this book aims to address. Under which conditions could carbon pricing schemes contribute to a significant decrease in emissions? What are the new investment strategies that the Kyoto Protocol and the emerging carbon pricing schemes around the world should promote? In the context of carbon regulation through emission trading schemes, what is the trade-off between production, technological changes, and pollution? What is the nature of the relation between economic growth and the environment? This book intends to provide students and practitioners with the knowledge and the theoretical tools necessary to answer these and other related questions in the context of the so-called environmental finance theory. This is a new research strand that investigates the economic, financial, and managerial impacts of carbon pricing policies.

This report explains the environmental challenges faced in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, and assesses the financial tools and resources available to tackle them.

What is Environmental Finance Within the realm of finance, environmental finance is a subfield that makes use of market-based environmental policy instruments in order to enhance the beneficial effects that investment strategies have on the environment. One of the key goals of environmental finance is to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change by implementing pricing and trading strategies. The area of environmental finance was formed as a response to the ineffective management of economic crises by government agencies all over the world. The objective of environmental finance is to reallocate a company's resources in order to increase the long-term viability of investments while simultaneously maintaining profit margins during this process. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Environmental finance Chapter 2: Kyoto Protocol Chapter 3: United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Chapter 4: Emissions trading Chapter 5: Clean Development Mechanism Chapter 6: Flexible Mechanisms Chapter 7: Mobile emission reduction credit Chapter 8: Bali Road Map Chapter 9: Carbon emission trading Chapter 10: Criticism of the Kyoto Protocol Chapter 11: Climate governance Chapter 12: Economics of climate change mitigation Chapter 13: Kyoto Protocol and government action Chapter 14: Paris Agreement Chapter 15: Pedro Moura Costa Chapter 16: Climate finance Chapter 17: 2013 United Nations Climate Change Conference Chapter 18: United Nations Climate Change conference Chapter 19: 2016 United Nations Climate Change Conference Chapter 20: History of climate change policy and politics Chapter 21: Euro (II) Answering the public top questions about environmental finance. (III) Real world examples for the usage of environmental finance in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Environmental Finance.

This report draws on three detailed case studies and on the experience of OECD countries to provide guidance on how transfers from central budgets to local authorities could be designed to finance environmental infrastructure.

This book presents a method to develop financing strategies for investment-heavy environmental infrastructure, such as urban water supply, wastewater collection and treatment, and municipal solid waste.

This report examines opportunities beyond the public sector for financing water and other environmental infrastructure in China, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

Financing the Global Environment examines the financial techniques and strategies necessary to obtain funding to undertake infrastructure and environmental projects. Despite conventional notions that monies are typically not readily available for large-scale environmental projects, the book explains how this is usually not the case, and will provide the necessary steps, tools, and organizational methods necessary for successful project finance in any region. It demonstrates how the largest possible projects could be undertaken at the lowest possible cost and how a utility’s excess operating income could be used to improve the system. Features: Presents methods for the sourcing of funds and for maximizing income Defines what types of income can be used for making debt service payments and how it can be estimated Explains the basic concepts of loans and debt, as well as the present value theory of money This book serves as a useful guide for practicing professionals, industry executives, and government officials who work with water and wastewater utilities and infrastructure and are involved with financial project preparation.