Climate finance

Aneil Tripathy

Chapter 6 in Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, 2025, pp 34-38 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Climate finance is a central component of conversations around financing for purposes beyond financial return. The term mixes with discussions of impact investing, sustainable finance, and social finance, all of which have specific historical trajectories. Climate finance refers to investment and financial products connected with infrastructure projects deemed to be climate solutions. These projects range from public transportation and water infrastructure to renewable energy and energy efficient buildings. This entry defines climate finance as the intersection of global climate change policy and financial market discussions. This entry highlights the utility of economic anthropology in making sense of when climate finance is discussed and the cultural and material effects of this term. The study of climate finance by economic anthropologists’ marks not only an expansion of objects of study but also highlights how the subdiscipline's methods provide needed context to economic and political debates around climate change responses.

Keywords: Climate finance; Economic anthropology; Climate change; Finance; Climate anthropology; Infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035312566
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