Failing to invest in resilience today means setting up their countries for economic decline tomorrow. Climate and nature risks are a threat to long-term economic growth through lower crop yields and adverse health impacts. Disasters will also increase economic volatility through sudden disruptions, making it even harder for finance ministers to improve people’s prosperity and wellbeing. https://lnkd.in/dvrJ3hBM
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Advancing climate business and sustainability in emerging markets
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IFC is working to mobilize private capital to address climate change in the world's most challenging markets and support sustainability initiatives that prioritize environmental stewardship and social equity. Our industry-standard environmental and social governance standards help build trust and foster a business environment that values ethical practices and long-term sustainability. Learn more about IFC Climate Business: www.ifc.org/climatebusiness Learn more about IFC ESG & Sustainability: www.ifc.org/sustainability
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📢 NEW RESEARCH from Climate Policy Initiative: Understanding Global #Concessional #ClimateFinance 2024. Key findings: ➡ International concessional climate finance increased by 50% from 2019 reaching $81 billion in 2022. While this increase is a step in the right direction, this amount remains low compared to not only global needs but also other climate-damaging concessional flows for fossil fuels. Fossil fuel subsidies reached USD 1.3 trillion in 2022 and international public funding for the fossil fuel sector was at least USD 47 billion per year between 2020 and 2022. ➡ About 360 institutions provided international concessional finance for climate action between 2019 and 2022. About 10 institutions provided 70% of concessional finance. Having many avenues for accessing concessional capital may increase the availability of climate finance. However, having a multitude of finance providers, each with its own disbursement process, can increase transaction costs and logistical hurdles for recipients and therefore, result in delayed climate action. ➡ Almost 42% of international concessional climate finance targeted climate mitigation activities between 2019 and 2022. Adaptation and resilience efforts received 36% of concessional climate finance over the same period. Activities with dual objectives (both mitigation and adaptation) received the remaining 22% and it increased over the years. ➡ Compared to low-cost loans, international grants for climate action tended to target projects with smaller ticket sizes, tilting their focus toward shorter-term outcomes and impacts. Small ticket size projects often deter large institutional investors, leaving financing to public development finance institutions or development aid agencies. ➡ Approximately 37% of international concessional finance supported the direct infrastructure costs in the transport, energy systems, and water and wastewater sectors. ➡ We found no coordinated approach or impact metrics for concessional funding channeled by international actors and data on the mobilization of public and private climate finance using public concessional resources remains fragmented. https://lnkd.in/dcZ4Ejze Erin Baldwin Gonzalo D. Gutierrez
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Trillions of dollars are needed to help address the causes and impacts of climate change, but leaders of the upcoming #COP29 United Nations climate summit in Azerbaijan say that "hundreds of billions" is realistic for a consensus decision. https://lnkd.in/ddseez2H
Climate change finance could land at 'hundreds of billions', COP29 leaders say
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The next #COP29, the United Nations' top climate summit, is taking place a month today in Azerbaijan’s capital of Baku. From 11 to 22 November, the world will be looking to leaders to ramp up climate action and afford stronger protection to those on the frontlines. https://lnkd.in/gtV2BPrY
What is COP29? The biggest issues on the table in Baku next month
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🌊🌊IFC's FIRST BLUE INVESTMENT IN #INDIA!🌊🌊 IFC - International Finance Corporation and Axis Bank, one of the largest private sector banks in India, are partnering to provide a $500 million loan to help develop a #bluefinance market and scale up financing of #green projects in India. This is IFC’s first blue investment in India and the first blue transaction by a financial institution in the country. https://lnkd.in/deUrXX7B
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There is an annual $200 billion gap in 🌳🌴 #biodiversityfinance, and most of it will have to come from the private sector. How do we mobilize private capital to invest into nature finance at scale? From our experience with #greenfinance and #bluefinance, we know that investors need clear, transparent rules of the road to enter new markets. IFC - International Finance Corporation’s first-to-market Biodiversity Finance Reference Guide aimed to help investors and companies identify opportunities to shift to production practices that address the key drivers of biodiversity loss, advance conservation and restoration, and integrate nature-based solutions across sectors. And today, IFC - International Finance Corporation in collaboration with BNP Paribas, Finance for Biodiversity, Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking, Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), and the Wildlife Conservation Society launched a supplement to the Guide that lays out impact reporting metrics for each eligible activity. The supplement aims to address the growing demand from the market for more comprehensive guidance on impact reporting for biodiversity and nature finance activities, helping markets to efficiently transition to nature-smart approaches and to attracting private capital at scale. Learn more 👇 https://lnkd.in/gwu3Fp7T Irina Likhachova Helena Dill Beatrice Phillips Veronica Nyhan Jones Aurélien Boyer Diep Nguyen-van Houtte Jamie Fergusson
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Amid a global push to #decarbonize transportation, the paratransit system—comprising informal networks of private vans and cars that are ubiquitous across Sub-Saharan Africa—presents a significant opportunity to reduce #GHGemissions. However, the sector faces challenges due to the limited availability of affordable, suitably sized electric vehicles, systemic inefficiencies from fragmentation, and financing constraints. https://lnkd.in/dVbvckYE
Driving towards a greener future: Decarbonizing paratransit in South Africa
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A new paper by researchers at Stanford takes on both the question of whether we are adapting to #climatechange and, indirectly, how we should measure such #adaptation. Their conclusions with respect to the first question are less optimistic than what many economists might expect. https://lnkd.in/d7sk_QGR
A new paper by researchers at Stanford takes on both the question of whether we are adapting to climate change and, indirectly, how we should measure such adaptation.
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Lenders remain cautious about backing risky #climate projects. But #blendedfinance deals are helping to open up opportunities in areas like #renewable energy. #climatefinance #Africa https://lnkd.in/eVveWxU7
Dilemmas And Opportunities In African Climate Finance
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Last year at #COP28, 160 countries signed a landmark declaration to integrate food and agriculture into their national climate plans - prioritizing nutrition, nature, lower emissions, and climate-resilient productivity growth. But how will developing countries secure the billions needed to cover the cost of that shift, especially as many face rising public debt and economic difficulty? The key to unlocking change is hiding in plain sight - in the form of money and public support already being spent on agriculture by governments around the world. https://lnkd.in/e3K3_AtX
In plain view: solutions to turbocharge the agrifood system transition
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