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Green Finance and Renewable Energy Systems

A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "C: Energy Economics and Policy".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 May 2022) | Viewed by 10351

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Amine Lahiani

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Department of Economics, LEO-Laboratoire d’Economie d’Orléans, 45000 Orléans, France
Interests: asset pricing; financial markets; international finance; econometrics; energy
Prof. Dr. Salma Mefteh-Wali

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Guest Editor
ESSCA School of Management, 1 rue Lakanal, 49003 Angers, France
Interests: corporate finance; sustainable finance, financial markets; energy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The sudden outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis and the rapid spreading of the pandemic fed the fear of consumers and producers of an uncertain future mainly with the premises of a fifth wave of the pandemic as manifested by some local lockdowns in some countries. Among other consequences of the health crisis is the increase in production costs of renewable energy facilities, which decreased the profitability of green investments. Hence, renewable energy projects lost their competitiveness, questioning the sustainability of sustainable development goals.

Green finance is one of the available instruments that may help counteract the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the renewable energy industry. Green finance policies include, among others, carbon pricing, tradable green certificates and green credit.

We invite possible submissions from scholars in the following areas, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 pandemic, but the topics are not limited to these areas:

  • How green finance policies counteract the effects of the pandemic?
  • What is the impact of environmental disclosure and green innovations on green credit?
  • How green finance policies contribute to the sustainability of renewable energy?
  • How green finance affects renewable energy projects?

Prof. Dr. Amine Lahiani
Prof. Dr. Salma Mefteh-Wali
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • renewable energy
  • green finance
  • COVID-19
  • efficiency

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Green Finance and Green Energy Nexus in ASEAN Countries: A Bootstrap Panel Causality Test
by Nihal Ahmed, Franklin Ore Areche, Adnan Ahmed Sheikh and Amine Lahiani
Energies 2022, 15(14), 5068; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15145068 - 11 Jul 2022
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Green energy is a crucial component in addressing expanding energy demands and combating climate change, but the possible negative repercussions of these technologies are frequently disregarded. Green energy’s deployment is tied to environmentally sustainable development goals (SDGs). It can only be achieved by [...] Read more.
Green energy is a crucial component in addressing expanding energy demands and combating climate change, but the possible negative repercussions of these technologies are frequently disregarded. Green energy’s deployment is tied to environmentally sustainable development goals (SDGs). It can only be achieved by scaling up the finance of investment that provides environmental benefits through new financial instruments and new policies, such as green banks, green bonds, community-based green funds, green central banking, etc. In an effort to address the issues with IPAT and ImPACT, this study employed the STIRPAT model approach, which is a proven framework for energy economics analysis. The author gathers yearly data spanning 2002–2018 for six ASEAN member countries with the aim of investigating the relationship between CO2 emissions, green finance, energy efficiency, and the green energy index (GEX). After preliminary tests, the study employed the Westerlund test and Johansen Fisher test for long-term equilibrium and estimated the Granger causal links between variables using the generalized method of moments (GMM). The results indicate that green bonds are an effective technique for promoting green energy projects and considerably reducing CO2 emissions. Therefore, governments should establish supporting policies with a long-term perspective to increase the investment of green energy projects related investment from private participants to ensure sustainable growth and address environmental challenges. This strategy may be appropriate during and after the COVID-19 period. Full article
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Lock-In Effects on the Energy Sector: Evidence from Hydrogen Patenting Activities
by Francesca Pantaleone and Roberto Fazioli
Energies 2022, 15(9), 3006; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15093006 - 20 Apr 2022
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The aim of the paper is to analyze how regulatory design and its framework’s topics, other than macroeconomic factors, might impact green innovation by taking into consideration a brand-new renewable source of energy that is becoming more and more important in recent years: [...] Read more.
The aim of the paper is to analyze how regulatory design and its framework’s topics, other than macroeconomic factors, might impact green innovation by taking into consideration a brand-new renewable source of energy that is becoming more and more important in recent years: hydrogen and fuel cell patenting activities. Such activities have been used as a proxy for green technological change in a panel data of 52 countries over a 6-year period. A series of sectorial, energy regulation, and macroeconomic variables were tested to assess their impact on that technological frontier of green energy transition policy. As might have been expected, the empirical analysis carried out with the model that was prefigured confirms significant evidence of lock-in effects on fossil fuel policies. The model confirms, however, another evidence: countries already investing in renewables might be willing to invest in hydrogen projects. A sort of reinforcement to the further development of green sustainable strategies seems to derive from having already concretely undertaken this direction. Future research should exploit different approaches to the research question and address the econometric criticalities mentioned in the paper, along with exploiting results of the paper with further investigations. Full article
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Developing Countries in the Lead: A Bibliometric Approach to Green Finance
by Goshu Desalegn and Anita Tangl
Energies 2022, 15(12), 4436; https://doi.org/10.3390/en15124436 - 17 Jun 2022
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In recent years, green finance has become a popular method for dealing with environmental issues. However, it remains to be seen whether green financing is effective in addressing current global environmental issues. In this article, we, therefore, analyze the diffusion patterns of green [...] Read more.
In recent years, green finance has become a popular method for dealing with environmental issues. However, it remains to be seen whether green financing is effective in addressing current global environmental issues. In this article, we, therefore, analyze the diffusion patterns of green finance publications in the Global South and Global North to identify which section of the globe is under-researched from this perspective. The study tried to highlight the overall trends of research publications on green finance, continent, most contributing authors, countries, and journals. The study used a bibliometric approach with the help of R studio software. The Scopus database was used for extracting the resources and 522 documents utilized in this bibliometric analysis. The result demonstrates that the diffusion of green finance is more common in the Global North than in the Global South. However, the number of scientific studies produced over time, the number of active authors, and affiliations of the Global South have contributed more than the Global North. More specifically, at the continental level, Asia and the Pacific are playing a lion’s share in providing scientific research publications on the green-finance-related issue. Meanwhile, the Arab states and Africa are the lowest contributing continent. China has the highest number of publications worldwide. However, this reality may be different if another approach (per capita contribution) is used to investigate the issue of green finance. Hence, we call for future studies to consider this fact in investigating the issue of green finance across the world. Furthermore, the study proposes further studies to be conducted on what are the factors that drive the Global South to lead. Finally, it is also better if the future studies take into account the status of each country in terms of green finance mobilization and capital contribution to share the specific experience of that country and lessons taken from that country. Full article
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