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Digital Finance and Citizen Action - In Financing the Future of Climate-smart Infrastructure

This paper was prepared as a part of Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure, a joint initiative of the OECD, UN Environment and the World Bank Group, to help countries deliver on the objective of making financial flows consistent with a pathway towards low emissions and climate-resilient development ...

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Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets

Ceres is a nonprofit organization transforming the economy to build a just and sustainable future for people and the planet. We work with the most influential capital market leaders to solve the world’s greatest sustainability challenges. ...

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Climate Finance Lab

The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance identifies, develops, and launches innovative financial instruments that can drive billions in private investment to action on climate change and sustainable development. ...

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European Union

Innovative climate finance products

Tackling climate change requires going beyond traditional financing approaches and sources to meet the challenge at a global and grassroots level. As the world’s largest multilateral lender and borrower, the European Investment Bank (EIB) recognises that this means scaling up innovative solutions adapted to the characteristics of the projects we finance in terms of size, sector and creditworthin...

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Mind the Gap - Bridging the Climate Financing Gap with Innovative Financial Mechanisms

As part of GGGI’s Strategic Plan 2020 to accelerate the transition toward green growth, in this Insight Brief, we present the case for innovative financial mechanisms. Though widely discussed in the international community, our review of existing research reveals that such mechanisms are still relatively uncommon and that little information is tracked at the project level, which is where innovat...

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Accelerating and scaling up climate innovation - How the Green Climate Fund’s approach can deliver new climate solutions for developing countries

This Working Paper first identifies the main barriers to climate innovation in developing countries, focusing on each stage of the innovation chain, from the emergence of innovation to its deployment and eventual widespread adoption ...

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Innovate4Climate

INNOVATE4CLIMATE (I4C), hosted by the World Bank Group, is an annual global conference on climate finance, climate investment and climate markets. Launched in 2017, I4C brings together thought leaders interested in linking climate innovation with investment opportunities – transforming dialogue into action. ...

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United States

Funding Innovation to Fight Climate Change

Founder and CEO of Elemental Excelerator, a non-profit incubator that helps climate-focused startups deploy their technologies joins Azeem Azhar to discuss how innovative climate tech companies can make it to market, and why workers at Silicon Valley’s biggest companies are flocking to the fight against climate change. ...

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Global

Climate finance meets low-carbon agtech

Change is needed to mobilize private capital, fill critical gaps, and drive resilient, low-carbon development. Agriculture value chains are a good place to start the conversation. ...

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United States

CAPTURING INVESTMENT: POLICY DESIGN TO FINANCE CCUS PROJECTS IN THE US POWER SECTOR

This study attempts to answer one important question: If investors and lenders wanted to put money into CCUS projects in the US power market, how do various capital and revenue incentives ensure that the financiers are repaid and earn appropriate returns? ...

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Global

Climate Investment Opportunities in Emerging Markets - An IFC Analysis

This report shows that the historic Paris Agreement on climate change that has recently come into force will help to open up nearly $23 trillion in opportunities for climate-smart investments in certain emerging markets between now and 2030. ...

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