This book treats the topics of preventive innovations and their financing possibilities as an interrelated whole. It provides an in-depth description of cleaner technologies, highlights environmental management accounting and material flow costing as tools for preventive innovation development, and gives an overview of environmental development measures for industry. It aims to raise awareness within financing institutions on financing options of preventive cleaner technologies, a highly debated topic also with options to reduce climate change. The text is supplemented with numerous figures, tables and annexes.