Green investing for SDGS: EU experience for developing countries

Abstract

The paper devoted to the analysis of the main principals of green investments as the alternative recourse to finance the achievement of the Sustainable Developments Goals 2030. Besides, the obtained result of the analysis of green investments dynamic proved the snowballing effect of green finance market developing in the world. The results of analysed showed: that emerging and developed countries influence on climate with different power; had unequal financial potential to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. In the paper, the authors tried to check hypotheses: linking between the country's contribution to the international commitment on climate-related expending, the volume of climate finance (as a type of green investments) and the country's rating on the Sustainable Development Index. The objects of the investigation were European and developing countries in the period 2015-2017 years. Under this research, the authors used the dataset from World Data Bank, Eurostat, Reports of OECD, European Investment Bank, Climate Bonds Initiative, Sustainable Development Index. The findings showed the correlation between the volume of green investments (for two types: international commitment on climate-related expending, the volume of climate finance) and country's efficiency on the way to achieve the SDGs 2030. Thus, the country with the higher volume of green investments occupied the higher position on the Sustainable Development Index. On the basis of the findings and results of the analysis of the EU experience, the authors allocated the most attractive direction to develop green investments market for emerging countries.