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Environmental finance is a field within finance that employs market-based environmental policy instruments to improve the ecological impact of investment strategies.[1] The primary objective of environmental finance is to regress the negative impacts of climate change through pricing and trading schemes.[2] The field of environmental finance was established in response to the poor management of economic crises by government bodies globally.[3] Environmental finance aims to reallocate a businesses resources to improve the sustainability of investments whilst also retaining profit margins.[2]