This is a very interesting report that recommends radical ways to change governance for sustainable development, in response to the chaos caused by the (then ongoing) COVID-19 pandemic. It is a great example of the types of completely new ideas that futures approaches can generate.
This report highlights the problem cost of capital poses for the energy transition in low- and middle-income countries, and highlights promising solutions.
This report investigates how different governments have structured their frameworks for Green Public Procurement, and presents lessons learned for practitioners interested in designing and implementing GPP reforms. It includes many country examples, including from the Dominican Republic and Ecuador.
This report by the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System investigates the main barriers to the scaling up of blended finance for climate action in the Global South, and provides recommendations for how to address these.
The Climate Policy Initiative undertakes an annual mapping exercise of climate finance, investigating the sources, types and destinations of climate finance.
This report by the Energy Transitions Commission estimates the global financing needs for the energy transition and provides a roadmap for how sufficient financing can be raised. It explains how to develop economic policies to unlock investment, recommends actions by the financial sector, and discusses what additional actions will be needed in the Global South.
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 … Continue reading “Public Financial Support for Renewable Power Generation and Integration in the G20 Countries”
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.
This is an example of an energy transition roadmap for Uganda. It explores different renewable energy scenarios and identifies the actions, investments and policies that are required to make these reality.