Do good intentions bring bad results? Climate finance and economic risks

Jinsong Zhao, Boxu Zhou and Xinrui Li

Finance Research Letters, 2022, vol. 48, issue C

Abstract: Climate finance has emerged as an important solution for helping developing countries combat climate change. However, its potential adverse effects on the development of recipient countries remain unclear. This study analyzes multilateral climate finance flows from 2000 to 2018 to assess whether climate finance has an adverse impact on economic risks. The results indicate that climate finance significantly aggravates the economic risks, in which mitigation finance induces more economic risk than adaptation finance. The adverse effects are less notable in countries with higher political stability, indicating that stable political environment is essential in the use of climate finance.

Keywords: Climate change; Climate finance; Economic risk; Developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H23 P45 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2022.103003

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