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Green Infrastructure Finance : Framework Report.
Title:
Green Infrastructure Finance : Framework Report.
Author:
Baietti, Aldo.
ISBN:
9780821395288
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (88 pages)
Series:
World Bank Studies
Contents:
Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Executive Summary -- The Financing Challenge of Green Infrastructure Investments -- Status of Green Infrastructure Finance -- Benefits of a Green Infrastructure Finance Framework -- Conceptual Methodology for Assessing and Allocating Risks -- Assessment of the Green Investment Climate in EAP Countries -- Conclusions and Next Steps -- 1. Rationale for Green Infrastructure Finance Framework -- Introduction -- Main Conclusions from the Research Report -- Green Infrastructure Finance Framework -- Objectives and Scope of the Report -- Audience -- 2. Economic Rationale of Green Investments -- Climate Change: The Greatest Market Failure -- Economic Policy Solutions for a Global Externality -- Economic Principles for the Efficient Use of Green Infrastructure Finance -- Practical Principles for Green Infrastructure Finance Mechanisms -- Summary of Economic Design Principles for Green Infrastructure Finance -- 3. Conceptual Methodology for Assessing and Allocating Risks -- Rationale for Methodology -- Similarities and Differences between Conventional Infrastructure and Low-Emission Investments -- Understanding the Financial Viability Gap-A Wind Farm Case -- Making Green Infrastructure Finance Work to Close the Viability Gap -- Combining Instruments for Effective Financing Solution -- Examples of Green Finance Financial Structures -- 4. Assessment of Green Investment Climate in EAP Countries -- The Role of Country Assessment Methodology -- Evaluation of Overall Green Investment Climate in EAP Countries -- Detailed Assessment of Country Green Investment Climate -- 5. Conclusion and Next Steps -- Appendix: Green Investment Climate Matrix -- References -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
This report builds on the conclusions of the Green Infrastructure Finance: Leading Initiatives and Research report and lays out a simple and elegant way in which scarce public financing can leverage market interest in 'greening' infrastructure, particularly in the East Asia and Pacific Region. The framework introduced in the report bridges ideas and concepts between environmental economics and project finance practices and consists largely of an analytical methodology for determining the financial viability gap of low-emission projects and an approach for assessing and strengthening the green investment climate in a given country environment.The authors argue that the solution to the financing challenge of low-emission investments lies in understanding the causes of a given project's financial viability gap, and then investigating how specific actions, including concessional financing, strategic subsidies and other public policy interventions and reforms, can be deployed in a complementary fashion to close the gap.The approach provides suggestions for appropriately allocating risks and responsibilities to various stakeholders for financing portions of the financial viability gap and recommends using multiple instruments and tools to make green investments viable. Governments, for example, could rebalance their own policy distortions with a mix of domestic instruments such as feed-in tariffs, direct subsidies, domestic carbon taxes, and other financing and fiscal incentives. The international community could contribute international instruments for monetizing the global externality benefits of green investments through concessional financing and direct grants. Such an approach results in hybrid financing structures designed to maximize the leveraging effect of public interventions.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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