Blockchain Role in Green Finance: A Pathway to Sustainable Development

Blockchain has attracted lots of attention due to the capabilities it holds in disrupting several business industries such as the financial and the sustainability. This chapter aims to investigate the relationship between Blockchain and Green finance, as well as how this relationship can support sustainable development. Based on the literature review and cases, as well as effective literature and practice analysis of green finance and blockchain technology development trend, this paper attempts to explore the dividend, challenge, and prospect of applying the blockchain in green finance. Moreover, it explores how blockchain can improve data quality and governance, increase trust, drive cost efficiency along with overcoming information asymmetry issues thus help to create a sustainable finance system for earth to achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.