Transformation of civil law regulation of bank lending to environmental entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation and the European Union

Introduction: the paper considers thestudyofthe issues of thecivil law regulation ofbanklending toenvironmental entrepreneurship through the analysis of such concepts as “green banking”, “environmental entrepreneurship”, and “social goal ofgreen financing”. Purpose: the author examines the concept and features ofbank lendingtoenvironmental entrepreneurship, their essential features, highlighted by the civil doctrine and used by judicial practice. Using the methods of scientific cognition, primarily the method of systematic and comparative analysis, the author identifies the constitutive features ofbank lending to environmental entrepreneurship by applying an essential-substantive approach to the study of the concept of environmental entrepreneurship and its development in Russia with the help of bank lending. Results: it is established that there is no single approach to understanding bank lending to environmental entrepreneurship in the modern scientific literature. Todetermine the main approaches tounderstanding bank lending to environmental entrepreneurship, the author's approaches to the definition of this phenomenon are systematized. Conclusions: the author concludes that there are nomethodologicallysound approaches to the financing ofenvironmental entrepreneurship in the banking sector. It seems that the solution to such a problem is possible by creating a universal framework for the methodological support of risk assessment to applybank lending to environmental entrepreneurship.