Similar Search Results

Climate Risk and Financial Institutions : Challenges and Opportunities

Stenek, Vladimir - 2011

number of conditions that are material to the objectives of financial institutions. If changing conditions are not actively … managed, investments and institutions may underperform. Most investments will be channeled through financial institutions … responsibility, for these institutions to take a leading role in adaptation to climate change. Institutions managing investments in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247408

A City-Wide Approach to Carbon Finance

World Bank - 2010

Urbanization and climate change will define much of the 21st century. Urbanization leads to improvement in standards of living, and through the increased density and service delivery efficiency of cities, higher growth can be achieved with lower greenhouse gas emissions. Cities and urban...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247461

How to Keep Momentum Up in Carbon Markets?

Ambrosi, Philippe - 2011

public and private institutions in developing countries, to increase their participation in the carbon market and build and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247854

Assessing the Investment Climate for Climate Investments : A Comparative Clean Energy Framework for South Asia in a Global Context

World Bank - 2012

Mitigating climate change while addressing development needs will involve a massive scale-up of investments in Renewable Energy (RE) and Energy Efficiency (EE). Most of these climate investments will come from the private sector, which will be the main driver of low-carbon growth in both...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247931

A Guide to Greenhouse Gas Benchmarking for Climate Policy Instruments

Partnership for Market Readiness - 2017

The past year has seen a significant increase in global momentum for climate action. As of April 2017, one hundred thirty-seven Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have already submitted their first nationally determined contributions (NDCs) as part of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247975

Networked Carbon Markets : The Regulatory Framework to Support Carbon Market Linkage--A Concept Paper

Zaman, Peter - 2016

This paper considers the regulatory frameworkthat is required to be put in place in order to support theestablishment of carbon market linkages, in particular,in light of the bottom-up approach contemplated by theParis Agreement. Section two describes the key purpose ofthe paper and details the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248140

Resource Mobilization for HCFC Phase-out and Climate Mitigation Co-benefits : A Study Prepared for the Executive Committee of the Multilateral Fund

World Bank - 2015

This study seeks to identify potential sources of co-financing to meet the additional costs of energy efficiency (EE) and climate mitigation benefits associated with the hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFC) phase-out supported by the Multilateral fund of the montreal protocol (MLF). As it stands, the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248304

Turn Down the Heat : Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience

2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248737

Climate finance, carbon market mechanisms and finance “blending” as instruments to support NDC achievement under the Paris Agreement

Strand, Jon - 2019

This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012058963

Collaborative investor engagement with policymakers : changing the rules of the game?

Yamahaki, Camila; Marchewitz, Catherine - 2023

Although a growing number of investors are engaging with sovereign entities on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues, little academic research investigates this new form of investor activism. Applying universal ownership theory and drawing on eleven case studies of policy...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338086