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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

Multilateral Development Banks and Climate Finance: More Words Than Action
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) dispense concessional and non-concessional funding for development to low- and middle-income countries. A growing obstacle in the way of development and poverty-reduction is climate change’s adverse

5 Barriers That Hinder Green Financing
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