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This book analyses the effectiveness of climate finance as political instrument to reduce the effect of anthropogenic activities on climate change and promote the green growth in developing countries.

The book highlights that close attention should also be paid to the analysis of political contexts in a broad sense. Particularly focusing on the international negotiations process that enables the direction of funds toward specific needs and priorities and the issue of access to electricity. For example, the difficulties that developing countries face when trying to improve their green economic development without access to carbon remains a matter of the utmost importance and urgency for many developing countries that lack significant aid from developed cou
ntries.

This book will be of interest to a wide body of academics and practitioners in climate change and energy policies. Moreover, this project is a valid instrument for students in energy policies and climate programs.

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1. Introduction and background.- 2. Climate change.- 3. Climate finance.- 4. Assessing the effectiveness of climate finance: composite indicators and quantile regression.- 5. Empirical Study of Climate Finance.- 6. Conclusions and Policy Implications.

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Giuseppe Scandurra is Associate Professor in Economic Statistics at the Department of Business and Quantitative Studies of the University of Naples "Parthenope". He holds a B.S in International Economics and Ph.D. in Spatial Statistics from the same university.

Main research topics are related to energy policies and energy economics. He has published several papers in international refereed academic journals and book chapters in edited volumes; moreover, he has presented papers in several international conferences and workshops.

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