The Routledge handbook of green finance / edited by Othmar M. Lehner, Theresia Harrer, Hanna Silvola and Olaf Weber.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

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Othmar M. Lehner is the director of the Center for Accounting, Finance and Governance at the Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki. Theresia Harrer is a postdoctoral researcher in sustainability accounting at the Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki. Hanna Silvola is an associate professor of accounting at the Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki. Olaf Weber is a professor at the Schulich School of Business and holds theCIBC Chair in Sustainable Finance.

"Green Finance is heralded in theory and practice as the new panacea - the ideal way to support the green transition of businesses into more sustainable, environmentally responsible forms, by means of incentivized financial investments. This handbook brings together a variety of expert scholars with industry specialists to offer the most authoritative overview of Green Finance to date, presenting the state of the art. It focuses on Green Finance in a comprehensive way, discussing its characteristics, underlying principles and mechanisms. The book carefully illuminates the issues surrounding Green Finance and delineate its boundaries, mapping out and displaying the disparate voices, traditions and professional communities engaged in green and sustainable finance activities. Specifically, it examines the Environmental in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) measurements, while also discussing the interplay between E, S and G. It develops a range of analytic approaches to the subject, both appreciative and critical, and synthesizes new theoretical constructs that make better sense of hybrid financial relationships. Furthermore, the handbook illustrates existing best practice and theory and critically examines the gaps to derive the necessary future research questions. It highlights the essential issues and debates and provides a robust research agenda. As such, it helps to create an effective market for the various green financing instruments through clarification and standardization. This handbook will be the standard reference work for a broad audience, encompassing scholars, researchers and students, but also interested professionals, regulators and policymakers, wishing to orient themselves in a rapidly developing and increasingly topical field"-- Provided by publisher.

Print version: Routledge handbook of green finance. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024

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English

April 09, 2024

Includes bibliographical references and index.