TodayEco.com

27 Mar '18, 1pm

NEW blog: Why Local is Better than Global in the World of Low-Carbon #Finance

National institutions such as green investment banks can be a one-stop hub for climate funds. In emerging markets, grants and loans will never go far enough to support all the projects necessary to shift the direction of climate change. These nationally owned, commercially operated institutions can coordinate capital inflows (e.g., from the Green Climate Fund, the World Bank, and bilateral climate assistance) while building the long-term domestic “plumbing” for deploying capital via local commercial/investment banks and local savings. They can be the first to demonstrate financial-engineering solutions in the local context that can then be replicated by other market actors. They can also build new markets to catalyze the deployment of a wider array of technologies, and develop the local financial expertise that will ensure that financing for low-carbon projects becomes mai...

Full article: https://rmi.org/news/local-better-global-world-low-carbon...

Tweets

Why Local Is Better than Global in the World of...

rmi.org 30 Mar '18, 10pm

Why Local Is Better than Global in the World of Low-Carbon Finance March 27, 2018 | By Angela Whitney Building climate-fri...

Why Local Is Better than Global in the World of...

rmi.org 31 Mar '18, 12pm

Why Local Is Better than Global in the World of Low-Carbon Finance March 27, 2018 | By Angela Whitney Building climate-fri...

Green Finance Taskforce: Experts urge policy overhaul to unlock billions in green investment

Green Finance Taskforce: Experts urge policy ov...

businessgreen.com 27 Mar '18, 11pm

A government-commissioned advisory panel of green finance experts will today call for the introduction of a raft of policy...

Why Local Is Better than Global in the World of...

rmi.org 09 Apr '18, 4am

Why Local Is Better than Global in the World of Low-Carbon Finance March 27, 2018 | By Angela Whitney Building climate-fri...

#zerohero #gbcsa

worldgbc.org 27 Mar '18, 11am

Today, the World Green Building Council has published a set of snapshots detailing the key information about the five net ...

Taiwan Makes It Easier for Global Companies to ...

rmi.org 25 Mar '18, 10pm

Routes 1 and 2 involve direct, bilateral power purchase agreements between renewable energy projects and nonutility buyers...

IRENA to help deliver low-carbon Winter Olympics in China in 2022

IRENA to help deliver low-carbon Winter Olympic...

renewableenergymagazine.com 27 Mar '18, 2pm

IRENA has signed a co-operation agreement with the People’s Government of Hebei Province, China to provide the city of Zha...

[email protected] has hit an all time low.

hypebeast.com 27 Mar '18, 10am

After a rocky start to 2018, Swedish retailer H&M has announced that its first quarter profits are down by 62 percent to a...

Forests and Finance

ran.org 31 Mar '18, 7pm

Where is your money actually spent? Three and a half billion people around the world have bank accounts — but many of us h...

Taiwan Makes It Easier for Global Companies to ...

rmi.org 25 Mar '18, 12pm

Routes 1 and 2 involve direct, bilateral power purchase agreements between renewable energy projects and nonutility buyers...

The Government's own formula would rate the #He...

neweconomics.org 27 Mar '18, 2pm

A fresh examination of the economic case for a third, north west runway at London’s Heathrow airport finds it eroded to th...

A Tale of Two Cities: How San Francisco and Burlington Are Shaping America's Low-Carbon Future

A Tale of Two Cities: How San Francisco and Bur...

ecowatch.com 19 Mar '18, 6pm

President Trump's commitment to pull out of the Paris agreement signaled what appeared to be the worst of times for a tran...

Distribution-Scale Solar Goes Big in Texas - Ro...

rmi.org 26 Mar '18, 7am

Most of Texas’s solar installations have been utility-scale: large arrays installed on vast swaths of arid land, transport...

World cities go dark as global Earth Hour clima...

channelnewsasia.com 24 Mar '18, 2pm

SYDNEY: The Sydney Opera House, the Eiffel Tower and Moscow's Red Square were among the world landmarks to go dark on Satu...

Today’s Ontario Budget 2018 shows benefits of p...

davidsuzuki.org 28 Mar '18, 10pm

Provincial budget also includes $79 billion investment in public transportation over 10 years TORONTO — Today’s Ontario Bu...