Launched in November 2017, the International Energy Agency's (IEA) Clean Energy Transitions Programme (CETP) aims to accelerate global clean energy transitions. This report outlines CETP efforts during the first year (2018), including summaries of accomplishments from the six priority countries as well as how activities were tailored for each country.
In a new report, 'Nature is too big to fail – Biodiversity: the next frontier in financial risk management', PwC Switzerland and WWF Switzerland find that the financial risks associated with the loss of biodiversity will become increasingly important in 2020 - especially in the lead up to the United Nations Biodiversity Conference in October in Kunming (China).
As climate change and the loss of biodiversity mutually reinforce each other, decision-makers face a huge challenge to respond to this double crisis, as the risk of financial market instability significantly increases.
In recent years a wide range of organisations have issued guidance on different aspects of strategic infrastructure planning and prioritisation. The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) reviewed this material and conducted interviews with practitioners from around the world. This report draws these insights together into a single source of guidance and illustrates them with a series of case studies.
This Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) study is part of a research program which explores the potential of developing a green investment bank model in Indonesia. More specifically, it is focused on the potential of developing a guarantee instrument to help catalyze renewable energy investments in Indonesia.
This policy brief summarizes findings from an emerging portfolio of research by Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) on the role rural credit plays in Brazil. CPI analysts determined that rural credit makes a significant difference in raising agricultural productivity and improving land use. They show that an increase in rural credit lending leads to improvements across a number of agricultural indicators, including municipal crop production, agricultural GDP, total municipal GDP, cropland productivity, and rural worker crop productivity. The analysts conclude that lack of financial resources often limits farmers’ production possibilities in Brazil. Improved credit access allows producers to make new decisions that lead to higher productivity.