Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure
The OECD, UN Environment and the World Bank Group have joined forces under an initiative entitled Financing Climate Futures: Rethinking Infrastructure. Supported by the German Federal Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), it explores what public and private actors should do to support the radical transformation needed to align financial flows in infrastructure for low-emission, resilient development.
Publication
Highlights
Events
28 November | Sherpa's meeting, Buenos Aires, Launch of final report
29 November | Green Talks LIVE webinar
OECD events at COP24 - Katowice, Poland
10 December | 09:00-10:00 - Financing Climate Futures event (Polish Pavilion)
12 December:
- 15:00-16:45 - OECD-NCE Event on the Climate-Growth Nexus (Benelux-EIB Pavilion)
- 16:45-18:15 - OECD-UNEP FI Side Event (Wisla room)
Video
Key messages flyer
Case studies
In addition to the report, the Financing Climate Futures initiatve consists of the following components:
- Key findings: Achieving clean energy access in sub-Saharan Africa, Jan Corfee-Morlot (3Cs); Paul Parks, James Ogunleye, Famous Ayeni (Carbon Limits Nigeria)
- Key findings: The role of National Development Banks in Brazil and South Africa, OECD
- Key findings: Financing climate objectives in cities and regions to deliver sustainable and inclusive growth, OECD
- Case study: Financing a Resilient Urban Future - A Policy Brief on World Bank and Global Experience on Financing Climate-Resilient Urban Infrastructure, World Bank Group
- Shifting the Lens: Interim Briefing, UN Environment
- More case studies (forthcoming)
More videos
Dissemination & outreach
10 December | 09:00-10:00 - Financing Climate Futures event (Polish Pavilion)
12 December | 15:00-16:45 - OECD-NCE Event on the Climate-Growth Nexus (Benelux-EIB Pavilion)
12 December | 16:45-18:15 - Official OECD-UNEP FI Side Event at COP24 (Wisla room)
Sherpa’s meeting, Buenos Aires | 28 November
Handover of the final report by the three organisations (UN, WB and OECD) to the G20 troika (Germany, Japan, Argentina) during the meeting of the Sherpas.
UN Headquarters, New York | 25 September 2018
The OECD, UN Environment and the World Bank Group hosted a high-level discussion on Financing Climate Futures. Scaling-up and shifting financial flows to low-emission and resilient infrastructure investments is critical to delivering on the objectives of the Paris Agreement and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Despite some progress, radical transformations are needed to drive systemic changes in finance, infrastructure and innovation.
- Synthesis & key messages (PDF)
- Press release: Governments need to honour their climate pledges as risks grow
- Communiqué de presse : Devant la montée des risques, les gouvernements doivent tenir leurs engagements climatiques
- Agenda and list of speakers
Financing Climate Futures: What role for cities and regions?, San Francisco | 12 September
Seminar on Aligning Financial Flows, OECD Paris | 28-29 June
Photobook
Other OECD reports on climate change
Climate Change Mitigation
Aligning Policies for a Low-Carbon Economy
Objective and approach of the initiative
The initiative stems from the 2017 G20 Hamburg Climate and Energy Action Plan, which called on the three organisations to “compile ongoing public and private activities within the G20 for making financial flows consistent with the Paris goals and, building on this, to analyse potential opportunities for strengthening these efforts”. Read more on the deliverables, launches and milestones (PDF).
Contact
For more information on the project,
- write to: ClimateFutures@oecd.org
- Stay tuned on Twitter: @OECD_ENV