This book provides a unique picture of green finance by highlighting,
under both theoretical and practical lenses, current changing paradigms
and future directions in this field. The book is founded upon four major
aspects that characterize current debates in green finance: products and
services, financial innovation, green washing and transparency, and
external pressures. The book is particularly useful to understand the
current perimeter of the field; identify the potentials and challenges
of the sector; explore current changing paradigms and its potentials to
act as drivers for mainstreaming green finance; and conceptualize future
directions of the field, with particular focus on its role in the
post-COVID recovery plans.
The book therefore is not only useful for deriving theoretical or
practical implications for researchers and policy makers, but also to
capture the evolving complexity of the field at the eve of extraordinary
and green-driven changes in financial industry and in policy programs.
The book also opens up interesting questions on theoretical advances in
financial theory derived from these innovations and accelerated by the
pandemic. It will be of interest to scholars and students from different
academic disciplines such as economics, finance, political science, and
entrepreneurship, as well as practitioners interested in green finance
and in the financing of environmentally impactful organizations and
projects.