A new way of doing finance: the green environmental path

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.