Green Finance Tools: A Practical Guide to Sustainable Investment Instruments, Climate Risk Mitigation, and Blended Finance Strategies
Unlock the full potential of green finance with this comprehensive, practical guide to sustainable investment tools, risk mitigation strategies, and blended finance models.
Green Finance Tools offers a clear, structured overview of the essential instruments shaping the global transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. Ideal for sustainability professionals, financial institutions, development practitioners, and policy advisors, this book explains how green financial tools are designed, applied, and integrated into broader environmental and economic systems.
Inside, you’ll find detailed chapters on:
- Green bonds, sustainability-linked loans, and climate-aligned investment funds
- Carbon markets, offsetting mechanisms, and emissions pricing strategies
- Guarantees, insurance products, and blended finance approaches for de-risking investment
- ESG disclosure frameworks (including TCFD, ISSB, and SFDR) and taxonomy alignment
- Fintech innovations: blockchain, tokenization, robo-advisors, and digital inclusion in retail green finance
- Public finance tools like green procurement, green budgeting, and national alignment with NDCs
Whether you work in public finance, development banking, ESG investing, or sustainable policy, Green Finance Toolsequips you with the knowledge to scale climate-positive investments and navigate the evolving landscape of green capital markets.
This book provides a comprehensive guide to green finance tools—covering bonds, carbon markets, blended finance, and fintech—to support sustainable investment and accelerate the low-carbon transition.