July 08 2021
Following the Paris Agreement in 2015, green investing has become an essential factor in sustainable development and investment strategy. It is being employed by major countries around the world, including the EU, the US and China for setting out targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote green new deals, and establish targets for achieving carbon neutrality.
After announcing its European Green Deal, which committed a total investment of €1 trillion ($1.19 trillion), the EU introduced the European Climate Law in March 2020, and followed it up with measures such as the guide on climate-related and environmental risks in November 2020, and the EU taxonomy. It has also announced that it will impose a carbon border tax on imports by 2023. President Joe Biden of the US has also announced, as a part of his campaign pledge, an environmental policy shift to rejoin the Paris Agreement, to invest $2 trillion in clean energy and infrastructure, and to introduce its own carbon border tax. Similarly, China has proposed green development as a long-term goal and announced its strategy for achieving carbon neutrality, in part, by improving its current energy infrastructure in 2021.