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Recent Developments in Green Finance, Green Growth and Carbon Neutrality.

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 ec...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shahbaz, Muhammad
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Other Authors: Dong, Kangyin, Balsalobre-Lorente, Daniel, Gedikli, Ayfer
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Diego : Elsevier, 2023.
Subjects:
Finance > Environmental aspects.
Sustainable development.
Carbon offsetting.
Environmental economics.
Finances > Aspect de l'environnement.
Développement durable.
Compensation des émissions de carbone.
Économie de l'environnement.
sustainable development.
Carbon offsetting
Environmental economics
Sustainable development
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Recent Developments in Green Finance, Green Growth and Carbon Neutrality
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter 1: Why carbon neutrality in Euro-Asia?
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Exploring the road to carbon neutrality
  • 2.1. Overview of CO2 emissions
  • 2.2. Progress in practice of carbon neutrality
  • 2.2.1. Asian countries
  • The example of China
  • 2.2.2. The European Union
  • The Baltic countries
  • 2.2.3. Interrelationships and synergies between adaptation and mitigation strategies
  • 3. Green finance in the Euro-Asia region
  • 3.1. Green finance: Serving the real economy?
  • 3.1.1. Asia
  • 3.1.2. Europe
  • 4. Technology needs for energy transition
  • 4.1. Hydrogen
  • 4.2. Bioenergy
  • 4.3. Electricity
  • 4.4. CO2 capture, use, and storage technologies
  • 4.4.1. CCS, CCUS, and BECCS technologies
  • 4.4.2. Carbon sink technology
  • 5. Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 2: An economic perspective on the notion of ``Carbon neutrality ́́
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Decoupling carbon emissions
  • 3. Plans for carbon neutrality
  • 4. The relationship between economy and environment: Environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) theory
  • 5. Technical progress and improvements in energy efficiency (economic growth models (the Solow model and EKC model)
  • 6. Economic uncertainties and their impacts on low-carbon transition of socioeconomic systems
  • 7. Concluding remarks
  • References
  • Chapter 3: A firm-based perspective of the notion of ``Carbon neutrality:́́ The role of supply chain map
  • 1. Carbon neutrality and supply chain emissions
  • 2. Carbon neutrality scopes of a firm
  • 2.1. Upstream emissions
  • 2.2. Downstream emissions
  • 3. Supply chain mapping and carbon neutrality
  • 3.1. Supply chain mapping
  • 3.2. Achieving carbon neutrality through supply chain mapping
  • 3.3. Existing levels of supply chain mapping: An example
  • 4. Concluding remarks
  • 5. Future directions
  • Appendix
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Chapter 4: Carbon neutrality concept and progress
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Carbon neutrality-Global pledges and practices
  • 3. Approaches and progress toward carbon neutrality
  • 3.1. Energy
  • 3.1.1. Renewable energy
  • 3.1.2. Electricity
  • 3.2. Technological advancements
  • 3.2.1. Carbon capture and storage (CCS), carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS), and bioenergy with carbon captu ...
  • 3.2.2. Carbon sinks
  • 3.3. Social norms
  • 3.3.1. Propaganda for social causes
  • 3.3.2. Willingness of consumers to pay for carbon neutrality
  • 3.4. Operations and management
  • 3.4.1. Carbon-reducing measures
  • 4. Carbon neutrality issues
  • 4.1. Forestry
  • 4.2. The construction industry
  • 4.3. The financial industry
  • 4.4. Wastes
  • 4.5. The aviation industry
  • 4.6. Agriculture and rural areas
  • 4.7. Other areas
  • 5. Concluding remarks
  • References