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Scaling up Private Investment in Low-carbon, Climate-resilient Infrastructure

This report provides the first comprehensive study of publicly capitalised green investment banks (GIBs), analysing the rationales, mandates and financing activities of this relatively new category of public financial institution. Based on the experience of over a dozen GIBs and GIB-like entities, the report provides a non-prescriptive stock-taking of the diverse ways in which these public institu...

OECD TEAM

Transformative Climate Finance

A new approach for climate finance to achieve low-carbon resilient development in developing countries.

THE WORLD BANK TEAM

The State of Cities Climate Finance Part 2 : The Enabling Conditions for Mobilizing Urban Climate Finance

The Enabling Conditions for Urban Climate Finance Part 2 is a contribution of the World Bank to the State of Cities Climate Finance Report 2021. Part 2 analyzes enabling frameworks and presents solutions for mobilizing urban climate finance at scale to transition cities to low-carbon, climate-resilient development pathways. It seeks to provide a common level of understanding of the terminologies, ...

SANDRINE BOUKERCHE ,
DAVID MASON ,
JAMIE BOEX ,
JAN WHITTINGTON

The Normative Foundations of International Climate Adaptation Finance

Billions of dollars are annually transferred to poor nations to help them adapt to the effects of climate change. This Element examines how the discourses on adaptation finance of many developing country negotiators, environmental groups, development charities, academics and international bureaucrats have renewed a specific vision of aid, that of an aid intended to respond to international injusti...

ROMAIN WEIKMANS

Settling Climate Accounts: Navigating the Road to Net Zero

Settling Climate Accounts probes the practice of Net Zero finance. It elucidates both the state of play and a set of directions that help form judgements about whether Net Zero is going to carry climate action far enough.

THOMAS HELLER ,
ALICIA SEIGER

Accelerating finance for addressing loss and damage through the global stocktake

The global stocktake seeks to enhance climate ambition through assessment and review of collective efforts every five years. A recent breakthrough in finance for addressing loss and damage is an opportunity to strengthen the finance agenda and rebuild much needed trust in the multilateral system.

C. WATSON ,
L. GONZALEZ

GCF: Catalysing finance for climate solutions

The window to address the climate crisis is rapidly shrinking. Floods, droughts, heatwaves, extreme storms, and wildfires are breaking records with alarming frequency around the world. Failure to limit global warming to the Paris Agreement targets will result in even more devastating consequences for people and planet, with vulnerable populations suffering the most. Ambitious action is urgently ne...

GCF TEAM

Making blended finance work for nature-based solutions

This paper provides an overview of various financial instruments available for climate action and nature conservation, focusing on the innovative approaches taken by the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and its partners to catalyze finance at scale. This paper discusses five categories of instruments to catalyze finance for nature-based solutions and how instruments can be combined for maximum impact, suc...