Green Finance and Sustainable Development Goals

Vikas Garg, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Management at the Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Noida, Symbiosis International (Deemed University), Pune, India. He has more than 20 years of experience with over 10 PhD scholars under his guidance. He has published numerous research papers in various Scopus- and ABDC-indexed international and national journals. He is acting as Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment (indexed in the WoS and Scopus). He is also acting as the Book Series Editor with Taylor and Francis for two book series: Technology Innovations: Strategies for Business Sustainability and Growth and Emerging Trends in Technology in Management and Commerce, and one with Apple Academic Press for Electronic Commerce Management for Business. He has been working with new innovative ideas in the field of patents and copyrights. He has been the lead organizer in conducting various international conferences, workshops, and case study competitions, including those affiliated with IEEE. He has been conferred with many national and international awards for being the best academician, researcher, and employee.Krishnendu Ghosh, PhD, is currently associated with the School of Management at Bennett University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, as Associate Professor and Area Chair of Accounting and Finance. He has more than 20 years of teaching experience at different top-level undergraduate and postgraduate academic institutions in India. Dr. Ghosh has also been an active contributor in publications in many reputed national and international journals. He has also edited books and has attended several seminars, conferences, and workshops and has also presented research papers at different national and international conferences. He is a regular reviewer for many reputed international journals.Ronita Ram, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Accounting at Henley Business School at the University of Reading, UK, since 2015, where she is also the Director of Postgraduate Research in Accounting. Dr. Ram’s research interest focuses on the development of IFRS (International Financial Reporting Standards), use of IFRS, and sustainability reporting. She has published in a number of international journals as well as being a reviewer for a number of accounting journals. Dr. Ram has over 15 years of teaching and research experience at the tertiary level, and she specializes in teaching IFRS at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. She has previously also taught as a lecturer at the University of Sydney in Australia and at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. Dr. Ram is a qualified accountant and member of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. She is also a member of the UK Endorsement Board (UKEB) Academic Advisory Group and is part of the UKEB’s sustainability working group. Dr. Ram has a PhD in accounting from the University of Sydney, Australia.

• Preface 1. Green Fintech: Growing Profits and Going Green! 2. Factors Affecting the Performance of ESG Reporting: A Study on Select PSEs in India 3. Role of Green Finance in Positioning Financial Practices with Sustainability Goals 4. Identifying the Risks Connected with Green Finance and Developing Policies to Address Them 5. The Green Finance Nexus: Unveiling Mechanisms for Environmental Sustainability 6. Fintech and Green Finance: Status of Indian Climate Financing 7. Addressing Protection Gaps in Developing Countries: The Role of Private-Public Partnership in Insurance Risk Pools in Mitigating Natural Disaster Vulnerabilities 8. ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) Reporting Towards Sustainable Development 9. Enabling Green Finance in Developing Nations: Significance, Opportunities, and Consequences for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals, an Ecosystem Services Values Assessment in Morocco’s Protected Areas: A Case Study of Ifrane National Park 10. Money in the Digital Age: Exploring the Influence of Financial Technology and Digital Currencies 11. Global Insights, Indian Innovations: The Fintech Revolution for Inclusive Growth in Financial Services 12. Linkage of Green Finance and SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, a Bibliometric Analysis Index