Government spending and other forms of actual support to renewable energy is a blind spot at the international level. To help address the knowledge gap, IISD developed an inventory of public financial support for renewable energy generation and integration by G20 governments. It shows that G20 governments provided over $168 billion in public financial support […]
Despite strong calls for energy subsidy reforms, governments around the world still spend billions subsidising fossil fuel consumption each year. This report investigates how reforms can be designed that work in practice, drawing on over a decade of World Bank experience supporting these processes.
A course on energy subsidies, their costs, and the design of a successful reform based on country case studies.
This guidebook summarizes a broad range of policy and financial instruments that governments can implement to foster the development of the interconnected mini-grid market, driven by the private sector.
This report explores how governments can catalyze the private sector’s role in ensuring a sustainable and just energy transition.
This report draws on the experience of members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee to identify emerging trends, good practice and lessons learned in their work with the private sector to leverage private capital, expertise, core business and market-based solutions to meeting the challenge of making development sustainable.
This report aims to quantify the investments required to build modern, clean energy systems and identify the policy actions and financial instruments that can deliver a major acceleration in private capital flows for the energy transition.
This brief discusses the fundamentals of private sector engagement in development cooperation and provides good practice case studies.