Types of green investment and their role in promoting environmental sustainability: An analytical study of the opinions of a sample of financial and environmental specialists in Iraqi universities

Abstract

The research aims to highlight the role of green investment in enhancing environmental sustainability, and the problem of the study focused on a main question: Do green investment types have a role in promoting environmental sustainability? The study assumes that there is a significant correlation and influence between types of green investment and enhancing environmental sustainability. The issue of green investment receives great attention from financial and non-financial institutions and companies in developed countries for its effective role in developing countries, achieving a clean environment, and investing in low-pollution and environmentally friendly products. Which motivated the researchers to study the correlation and influence between the green investment variable and environmental sustainability. The research chose Iraqi universities as a research community and a sample of (45) specialists in the financial and environmental fields in Iraqi universities. The questionnaire form was used as the main tool in collecting data for the research variables, using the descriptive and analytical approach in the statistical program (spss-ver23), and relying on a group of statistical methods within the program such as tests (T and F), The researcher reached a set of conclusions, the most important of which is the existence of a significant and positive correlation between types of green investment and environmental sustainability. The most important proposals are that the researchers recommend the need to increase attention to all types of green investment for their effective role in revitalizing and developing the businesses and products of clean and environmentally friendly institutions.