Abstract:
The thesis consists of five chapters. The first one represents an introduction to the wide notion of Green Economy and provides some deeper insight about Green Finance, a more specific topic in the general framework of Green Economy. The second one deals with National Appropriate Mitigation Actions, NAMAs for short. The third chapter focuses on a topical theme within the Green Finance context, which summarizes in the expression Climate Finance. The fourth chapter is the result of three different studies: first it provides a criterion explaining which kind of funds should be invested in (between green and non-green funds); secondly it carries out the analysis of an Environmental Pollution Index; finally, it tries to assess whether investing in green portfolios may be convenient in terms of financial performances, with particular reference to the Indian market. Lastly, the final chapter introduces and describes a new kind of bank the so-called Green Investment Bank.
