If the world is to avert climate calamity, multilateral finance institutions must begin looking to large institutional investors as their partners and clients. The creation of a new global climate finance facility, appropriately ring-fenced from current financing initiatives, could help.
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I agree to the points and arguments made in the paper. What I miss is emphasis on means to leverage local finance for low carbon infrastructure.; The exclusive emphasis on large scale international private instititutional finance makes the post lopsided in my opinion. I know of no country in the world which has succeeded in developing an efficient capital market by relying on foreign capital to provide the finance for infrastructure investment.
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Wolfgang Mostert
Thanks for this very good point, Wolfgang. In case you are not already aware of it, Nigeria’s InfraCredit is a very interesting example of a local currency guarantee facility in a developing country.