Financial quotient: What is green finance?

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Green finance involves ensuring financial services such as borrowing and lending, as well as investing, deliver both returns and environmentally positive outcomes, including dealing with climate change.

This could include bonds that go into funding projects in renewable energy, sustainable natural resources management and climate change adaptation.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on November 17, 2019, with the headline Financial quotient: What is green finance?. Subscribe