Editors:
- First handbook to explain ways to finance green projects for implementing SDGs in the context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
- Introduces various financial instruments, policies, strategies for financing green projects
- Provides several thematic and country chapters on the best practices of green finance
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development (SD)
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Table of contents (29 entries)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Financial Barriers for Development of Green Projects
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Green Energy Transition: Strategies and Financial Governance
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Credit Risk and Credit Rating of Green Projects
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Green Bond
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Carbon Capture and Carbon Pricing
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Banks and Non-bank Financial Institutions
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About this book
Finance is the engine of development of infrastructural projects, including energy projects. By providing several thematic and country chapters, this handbook explains that if we plan to achieve sustainable development goals, we need to create opportunities for new green projects and scale up the financing of investments that furnish environmental benefits. New financial instruments and policies such as green bonds, green banks, carbon market instruments, fiscal policy, green central banking, fintech, and community-based green funds are among the chief components that make up green finance.
Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean, Asian Development Bank Institute and Professor Emeritus, Keio University. Jeffery Sachs is Director, Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. Wing Thye Woo is Professor of Economics, U.C. Davis. Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is Assistant Professor, Waseda University.
Reviews
“This book is an exciting contribution on how to achieve the challenging targets of the Paris Agreement. It can be read as a whole or only for some specific chapters, depending on the reader's preferences. Environmental economists, financiers, and more broadly all academics, students or practitioners, who wish to learn about recent developments in green finance, will be able to explore what will certainly be the future of finance.” (Sébastien Duchêne, Ecological Economics, Vol. 177, 2020)
Editors and Affiliations
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Columbia University, New York, USA
Jeffrey D. Sachs
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Department of Economics, University of California at Davis, Davis, USA
Wing Thye Woo
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Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Naoyuki Yoshino
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Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
About the editors
Jeffrey Sachs serves as Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He is University Professor at Columbia University, the university’s highest academic rank. During 2002 to 2016 he served as the Director of the Earth Institute. Sachs is Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on the Sustainable Development Goals, and previously advised UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on both the Sustainable Development Goals and Millennium Development Goals and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the Millennium Development Goals. Sachs is currently Director of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the auspices of UN Secretary-General António Guterres, and a Commissioner of the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Development. He is Chair and Founder of SDG USA, a non-governmental initiative to promote the Sustainable Development Goal concepts in the United States. Sachs is also co-founder and ChiefStrategist of Millennium Promise Alliance, and was director of the Millennium Villages Project (2005-2015).
Wing Thye Woo is Professor of Economics at University of California in Davis, and Director of Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development at Sunway University in Kuala Lumpur. He also holds academic appointments at Fudan University in Shanghai, Columbia University in New York City, Penang Institute in George Town, and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in Beijing. He is an expert on the East Asian economies, particularly, China, Indonesia and Malaysia. His current research focuses on designing efficient, equitable pathways to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals with projects on Green Finance, Middle Income Trap, and Global Economic Architecture for the Multi-Polar World. He has been convener of the Asian Economic Panel (AEP) since 2001, a forum of specialists on Asian economies which meets tri-annually to discuss important Asian economic issuesand publishes the Asian Economic Papers (MIT Press). The University of California at Davis awarded him its Distinguished Scholarly Public Service Award in 2004; the Ministry of Education of China appointed him Chang Jiang Professor in 2006; the Governor of Penang conferred on him the title Dato in 2009; and the Thousand Talents Program of China appointed him a National Distinguished Expert in 2016.
Naoyuki Yoshino is Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), Chief Advisor at the Japan Financial Services Agency’s (FSA) Financial Research Center (FSA Institute), and Professor Emeritus of Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. He obtained his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1979. His thesis supervisor was Sir Alan Walters, economic adviser to former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Dr. Yoshino has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) and a visiting professor at various universities including theUniversity of New South Wales (Australia), Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (France), and University of Gothenburg (Sweden). He has also been an assistant professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an economics professor at Keio University. He was appointed as Chair of the Financial Planning Standards Board in 2007. He has served as Chairperson of the Japanese Ministry of Finance’s Council on Foreign Exchange as well as its Fiscal System Council (Fiscal Investment and Loan Program Section). Additionally, he has been a Board Member of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Japan and President of the Financial System Council of the Government of Japan. He was nominated for inclusion in Who’s Who in the World for 2009 and 2013. In recognition of his wide-ranging scholarship and contribution to policy formulation, Dr. Yoshino was conferred honorary doctorates by the University of Gothenburg (Sweden) in 2004 and Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany) in 2013. He also received the Fukuzawa Award for his contribution to academic research in 2013.
Dr. Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is an assistant professor of economics at the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, and visiting professor at Keio University in Tokyo. He completed his master's degree in energy economics from Tehran University, Iran, in 2011 and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. in economics from Keio University in 2015 with a scholarship from the government of Japan. He taught as assistant professor at Keio following the completion of his Ph.D. until March 2018. He was also a visiting scholar and visiting professor at several institutions and universities such as the Institute of Energy Economics of Japan (2013-2015); the Credit Risk Database (CRD) association of Japan (2014-2015), and the Graduate School of Economics of The University of Tokyo (2016-2017). Dr. Taghizadeh-Hesary has published on a wide range of topics, including energy economics, green finance, small and medium-sized enterprises finance, monetary policy, and banking. He has guest edited special issues for prestigious SSCI journals including Energy Policy, The Singapore Economic Review and International Review of Economics and Finance. His credits include authoring more than 50 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters and the editing of six books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Green Finance
Book Subtitle: Energy Security and Sustainable Development
Editors: Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Naoyuki Yoshino, Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary
Series Title: Sustainable Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0227-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Reference Module Humanities and Social Sciences, Reference Module Business, Economics and Social Sciences
Copyright Information: Asian Development Bank Institute 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-0226-8Published: 12 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-0227-5Published: 29 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2629-3609
Series E-ISSN: 2629-3617
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIV, 718
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 123 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Finance, Development and Sustainability, Natural Resource and Energy Economics