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Accelerating Green and Sustainable Finance in Indonesia
Key takeaways: 1. While there is tremendous interest from local institutional investors and potential issuers of sustainable bonds and sukuk in Indonesia, the majority of sustainable bonds have been issued
Tracking carbon prices
Why put a price on carbon? To accelerate the transition to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, climate change mitigation policy needs to become more ambitious. The shift to net
How Multilateral Development Banks Can Use Policy-Based Financing to Support Climate-Resilient Economies
Multilateral development banks can help developing countries achieve economic stability by repurposing policy-based financing for low-carbon, climate resilient development as impacts from climate change continue to add costs in already
Good Food System Transition: Repurposing agricultural support to promote fiscal resilience, human and planetary health
The UN Biodiversity COP15 Summit, which took place in December, saw countries globally agreeing under Target 18 to align agricultural incentives and subsidies with biodiversity goals. At COP27, food system
Climate uncertainty, financial frictions and constrained efficient carbon taxation
Climate change poses large aggregate risks that will likely have very different effects on different households. Unfortunately, these risks cannot be shared in existing financial markets. In this paper, author
Pathways to Unblocking Private Financing for Nature-based Solutions
Implementing Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) can be an impactful strategy to confront biodiversity and climate crises, while promoting sustainable rural development and generating financial, social and investment returns. Despite this, NbS
