Special Issue on Green Finance and Sustainable Investment

Green Finance and Sustainable Investment aims to explore how financial systems, investment strategies, and market innovations can drive the global transition toward environmental sustainability and low-carbon development. This theme focuses on emerging practices such as green bonds, ESG-aligned investments, climate-risk assessment, sustainable infrastructure financing, and nature-based investment solutions. By highlighting cutting-edge research, policy insights, and practical applications, the issue seeks to demonstrate how mobilizing capital toward sustainable projects can enhance climate resilience, support ecological protection, and promote long-term economic stability.

In this special issue, we intend to invite front-line researchers and authors to submit original research and review articles on exploring Green Finance and Sustainable Investment. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

• Biodiversity and nature-based finance
• Carbon markets and emissions trading
• Circular economy investment
• Climate finance
• Climate risk assessment and disclosure
• Esg-aligned investment strategies
• Green bond markets
• Green fintech and digital sustainability solutions
• Impact investing
• Renewable energy financing
• Sustainable banking and lending
• Sustainable infrastructure investment
• Sustainable insurance and risk management
• Sustainable real estate and urban development
• Sustainable supply chain finance
• Transition finance for low-carbon economies

Authors should read over the journal’s For Authors carefully before submission. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal’s Paper Submission System.

Please kindly specify the “Special Issue” under your manuscript title. The research field “Special Issue - Green Finance and Sustainable Investment” should be selected during your submission.

Special Issue Timetable:

Guest Editor:

Dr. Ameha Tefera Tessema

University of South Africa, Ethiopia

For further questions or inquiries, please contact Editorial Assistant at

jmf@scirp.org.