Green and Social Economy Finance: A Review

Green and Social Economy Finance is a comprehensive compilation linking research and practice. It reviews concepts and research findings in the ever growing field of green and social economy finance. This anthology provides a new thinking on social economy green finance, showing emerging themes and trends. It spans from stocks markets, green finance, innovations, digitalization to social finance, governance and theories of change. It concentrates on impact, opportunity recognition and development of financial products designed to finance the green and social economy. Without the attraction of capital, social entrepreneurship, innovations, green finance can face difficulty in scaling business solutions. Green and social economy is a nascent field. The authors address the conceptualization of green and social solutions and identify new trends in the finance industry products and approaches. The anthology demonstrates that aligning finance and investment with the Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals and needs and interests of society is feasible.