Recent Developments in Green Finance, Green Growth and Carbon Neutrality

Muhammad Shahbaz · Kangyin Dong · Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente · Ayfer Gedikli

Aug 2023 · Elsevier

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Recent Developments in Green Finance, Green Growth and Carbon Neutrality explains the role of green finance in transforming the global economy into a green and carbon neutral one. The book explores the synergy between green growth strategy and green finance policy (2G) and carbon neutrality in an economic-environmental-financial framework that helps readers understand how to design a feasible path toward achieving carbon neutrality through economic initiatives and financial innovations. It shows how to apply the notion of green growth to organizations and illustrates the need for a theory of energy economics that estimates the benefits of a low-carbon transition and carbon neutrality. Sections include historical background, relevant literature necessary to understand topics, the notions of green finance, green growth and carbon neutrality from an economic perspective. Other sections cover models and methods of carbon neutrality assessment, the nexus between carbon neutrality and economic development, green growth and financial development, green finance and green energy exploration and consumption, and more. Two chapters specifically focused on UN SDGs 7 and 13 round out the book, and it concludes with a final section that gathers and integrates the concepts discussed throughout the book. - Uses green finance and green growth to develop a framework for achieving a carbon neutral society - Brings together current knowledge in this field of research, then goes further to explain relevant concepts and the theoretical and empirical relationship between carbon neutrality, green growth and green finance - Includes two chapters dedicated to a discussion of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 7 and 13 which underpin this book

About the author

Muhammad Shahbaz is a Tenured Professor of Energy Economics, in the School of Management and Economics at Beijing Institute of Technology, China. He is a Visiting Research Fellow of the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, UK. He has widely published in peer-reviewed international journals, and has published more than 325 research papers.

Dr. Kangyin Dong is an Associate Professor in the School of International Trade and Economics, University of International Business and Economics, Beijing, China. His research interests include energy economics, climate change economics, and economics of natural gas and renewable energy. Dr. Dong serves for several academic journals as an Associate Editor including Energy Economics, Economic Analysis and Policy, Petroleum Science, and Journal of Economic Statistics. Dr. Dong has published more than 200 papers appearing in journals such as Energy Economics, Energy Policy, World Development, and The World Economy.

Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente holds a PhD. in Economics from the University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain, where he is currently an associate professor at the Department of Political Economy and Public Finance, Economics and Business Statistics and Economic Policy. He has more than ten years of experience as a Professor of Economic Growth, Public Economics and Regional Sciences. His main research activities are focused on the energy economy, public finances, energy innovation, economic growth, tourism, and development economics. He has coauthored numerous articles in various journals, including Energy Policy, Journal of Cleaner Production and Environmental Science and Pollution Research, as well as several book chapters. He regularly reviews articles for journals such as Economic Modelling, Energy Economics, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Technological Forecasting & Social Change or Journal of Cleaner Production, among others.

Ayfer Gedikli is an Associate Professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Political Science, Department of Economics. She worked as Vice Dean and head of Department of Economics at Kirklareli University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences between 2009 and 2012. Dr. Gedikli has many articles and international books on financial crisis, globalization, poverty and monetary policy.

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