Financial Risk Assessment of Environmental Protection Enterprises under the Background of Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality

With the proposal of China's carbon peak and carbon neutral strategic goals, the environmental protection industry is facing significant development opportunities and challenges. As a crucial support to achieve the goal of carbon peak and carbon neutral, environmental protection industry unavoidable has financial risks in the process of transformation and upgrading. The purpose of this study is to build A set of financial risk evaluation system suitable for environmental listed companies under the background of dual-carbon, and use factor analysis method to quantitatively assess the financial risk of 93 A-share environmental protection enterprises. It is found that the financial risk level of environmental protection listed companies is different, among which profitability and solvency are the most important factors affecting the financial risk of enterprises. Therefore, this paper also throws out some suggestions for environmental protection enterprises based on the data analysis results to promote the risk control and sustainable development of the environmental protection industry.