Financial Resilience and Environmental Sustainability

This book offers a thorough examination of financial resilience and environmental sustainability, focusing on the financing of environmental sustainability, and addressing the issues, challenges, and opportunities of green financing alongside sustainable development. This book offers a thorough examination of financial resilience and environmental sustainability, focusing on the financing of environmental sustainability, and addressing the issues, challenges, and opportunities of green financing alongside sustainable development. It presents global South perspectives on the critical issues of financing and environmental sustainability, providing policy recommendations for economies grappling with these paradoxical concerns. This book explores the challenges of financing and environmental sustainability through insights from various emerging economies. It combines theoretical, empirical, and model-based evidence to address the sustainability challenges faced by global economies, aligning with sustainable development goals. The book investigates climate change and environmental degradation challenges and examines economic strategies for a sustainable future. With over one billion people living below the poverty line, many lacking access to financial products and services, this book aims to present practical examples of financial inclusion, using the sustainable development goals as a framework. The book illustrates that comprehensive financial inclusion goes beyond credit access and bank account services, addressing the need for financially viable and accessible products and services that meet individuals' financial needs and vulnerabilities. It demonstrates how inclusive financial systems can empower those living in poverty globally, improving income levels, employment opportunities, livelihoods, and ultimately reducing poverty.