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Purpose: After almost 10 years, people wonder if green finance has been able to attain its objectives in terms of controlling climate change. Persistent global warming and climate deregulation manifested by melting glaciers, droughts and floods, are all of these determinants that have called into question the efficiency of green finance. Design/methodology/approach: Green finance is a way to support climate action through investments. It has proven that this is a viable financial instrument and that it can be used by governments and private companies to plan for the future of our planet. Findings: Based on an analysis of articles published in top international journals from 2016 to 2022, about the relationship between green technology and financial services in China, this paper aims to present an overview of green finance, its importance for the planet, its objectives and its instruments. Research limitations/implications: This study's contribution is to shed light on the aspects that may have limited its effectiveness, such as the absence of incentives, the absence of climate costs and above all the absence of finance green standards. Originality/value: The results have shown that there is still a significant gap in green finance before inclusive green growth can be achieved. Inclusive green growth. All stakeholders need to increase the level of investment in green finance. The green investment financing gap is the result of inconsistencies in sustainability and policies. Therefore, governments must intervene to impose appropriate policies and regulations to compel the financial sector to engage in sustainable development. All of these factors make the concept of green finance just an illusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Carbon neutrality is an important policy in the current global response to climate change and has been widely recognized by various industries. In the process of promoting carbon neutrality, new energy plays a pivotal role. In this study, the definition and connotation of new energy and its role and specific operation in the energy transition of carbon neutrality are firstly explained. Promoting new energy development requires significant green and low-carbon investments. Taking China as an example, this paper analyzes the opportunities brought by the carbon neutral process to the field of green finance and analyzes the main features and development trends of green finance in China at present. Then this paper proposes policy recommendations to strengthen the development of green finance in China in terms of improving the green financial policy system, enhancing the supply capacity of green financial services, and optimizing the supporting environment for green financial development. Finally, this paper analyzes the measures and experiences of the United States in promoting low-carbon development and proposes countermeasures for China's low-carbon development on the basis of the five major relationships that need attention in China's carbon-neutral process. That is, strengthen the top-level design and improve the regulatory policy system; optimize the energy structure and increase the proportion of clean energy; optimize the industrial structure and reduce energy consumption in key industries; build a complete low-carbon technology system and promote low-carbon technology research and development and demonstration applications, and encourage local conditions to explore low-carbon development paths. The development of green finance can contribute to the advancement of new energy technologies, thus contributing to the achievement of carbon neutrality goals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

While multilateral climate negotiations are at a deadlock, climate finance faces a crossroads as the lending community needs to develop renewed strategies on the 'Future of Environment Funds'. Most policy and scholarly attention have been directed on how to improve the largest multilateral climate fund – the Green Climate Fund (GCF) – own funding, compared to surprisingly few studies on the allocation strategies of the GCF funding. A conventional view so far has been of a Fund devoted mostly to finance non-bankable projects with public funding. Yet, improving the ability of the GCF to channelize both public and private sources of finance, and to contribute to de-risking more traditional sources of finance, would scale up climate finance and at the same time also improve the GCF own attractiveness for contributors. In this paper we empirically analyse the GCF portfolio structure and strategy and suggest the GCF can skillfully fund non-bankable parts of larger "nearly bankable projects". This supports a view of the GCF that departs from the conventional one. • Non-bankabl projects, grant funded, have a low leverage, but a high potential for mobilising other concessional sources of finance such as international guarantees and international in-kind funds. •Nearly-bankable projects, which are either loan funded, have a high leverage on international loans and national public equity; or to a minor extent on equity funded, in which case they are likely to mobilise national public loans and national private equity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]