Should Green Energy Efficiency Drive Policy? The Mediating and Moderating Roles of Climate Funding and Green Credit

This study explores Organizational Ecology Theory (OET) connected to “green credit†policies to enhance green energy efficiency (GEE), through environmental regulations. The study recruited environmental officers across 227 local government sectors in six African countries, with an online questionnaire toward ecological protective policy decisions. Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Smart-PLS and the Hayes Process Model for mediation and moderation analysis, the findings revealed that, GEE has direct statistical significance on climate funding (CF), and indirect with policy performance (PP). However, the partial mediation (CF) had significance with GEE had an inverse moderation with green credit (GC). While GC significantly contributes to CF and PP, further dampens a positive effect between GEE and PP. Hypothetically, the study contributed significantly to GC and CF levels of mediation moderation on stakeholders to meet decision-making on green Policy. GC has enabled and optimize GEE to concentrate on financial institutions to increase levels of comprehensive environmental efficiency through environmental behaviors. Recommended GEE is the basis for ecological policies implication for sustainability toward GC, but it also increases the possibility of meeting SDGs for green policy optimization.