The OECD has launched a new project on effects of public policy conditions on leveraging private financing for environmental and climate mitigation investments. Drawing upon a wide variety of datasets the project will seek to identify those policy conditions which result in increased private finance flows. This will include the analysis of fiscal incentives such as investment grants and tax preferences, as well as more general environmental policy instruments (e.g. feed-in-tariffs and renewable portfolio standards). The cost-effectiveness and fiscal implications of different measures will be assessed. For more information, please email: [email protected].
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This paper uses a unique dataset of investment flows to analyse the role of two categories of public interventions (finance and policies) in mobilising flows of private climate finance worldwide and in the more specific context of flows to and in developing countries.
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