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Blog Post
July 26, 2023
The effects of anthropogenic climate change are upon us, and the time for serious action is past due. In this context it is unsurprising that many observers are turning to the multilateral development banks (MDBs) for this action. These are institutions whose names inspire the potential for grand ac...
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March 20, 2023
The UK's Energy Price Guarantee increased CO2 emissions by 3.2 million tonnes over the period October 2022-April 2023—double the achievements of UK climate mitigation aid over the same period, which we estimate at a reduction of just 1.6 million tonnes of CO2, demonstrating that when it is expedient...
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November 23, 2022
Living up to the challenge of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5°C, especially after meagre emission reduction outcomes at COP 27, will not only require much more finance but also much more effective climate finance—from both the public and private sectors. The world will need to develop new te...
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November 03, 2022
In a new paper, we set out the case for using pull financing to solve problems that affect both development and climate outcomes by incentivising transformational change through technical innovation or massive-scale production and distribution of existing technologies. However, one big question our ...
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November 03, 2022
Pull financing is a powerful but underused mechanism for incentivising progress on hard-to-tackle social problems for which innovation or the take up of innovation may be part of the solution. In a new paper, published today, we argue that pull financing can play an important role in the generation ...