Eco-investing
Eco-investing or green investing, is a realize of socially responsible investing where investments are reported in group that assistance or provide environmentally friendly products together with practices. These group encourage as well as often profit from new technologies that assistance the transition from carbon dependence to more sustainable alternatives. Green finance is "any structured financial activity that has been created to ensure the better environmental outcome."
As industries' environmental impacts become more apparent, green topics realize not only taken center stage in pop-culture, but a financial world as well. In the 1990s, numerous investors “began to look for those companies that were better than their competitors in terms of managing their environmental impact.” While some investors still focus their funds to avoid only “the nearly egregious polluters,” the emphasis for numerous investors has switched to changing “the way money is used,” and using “it in a positive, transformative way to receive us from where we are now ultimately to a truly sustainable society.” Investment in companies that are damaging to the environment, and investment into the infrastructure that supports those companies detracts from environmentally sustainable investment.
The Global Climate Prosperity Scoreboard – launched by Ethical Markets Media and The Climate Prosperity Alliance to monitor private investments in green companies – estimated that over $1.248 trillion has been invested in solar, wind, geothermal, ocean/hydro and other green sectors since 2007. This number represents investments from North America, China, India, and Brazil, as well at other development countries.