| Description |
1 online resource (76 pages) |
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World Bank Studies |
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World Bank studies.
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| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Executive Summary; The Financing Challenge of Green Infrastructure Investments; Status of Green Infrastructure Finance; Benefits of a Green Infrastructure Finance Framework; Conceptual Methodology for Assessing and Allocating Risks; Assessment of the Green Investment Climate in EAP Countries; Conclusions and Next Steps; 1. Rationale for Green Infrastructure Finance Framework; Introduction; Figures; Figure 1: Investments in Green Technologies and Emission Trajectory; Main Conclusions from the Research Report |
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Green Infrastructure Finance FrameworkObjectives and Scope of the Report; Audience; 2. Economic Rationale of Green Investments; Climate Change: The Greatest Market Failure; Economic Policy Solutions for a Global Externality; Economic Principles for the Efficient Use of Green Infrastructure Finance; Boxes; Box 1: Disaggregating a Concessional Loan into a Commercial Loan and Grant Components; Box 2: Calculating the Cost of Carbon Abatement; Practical Principles for Green Infrastructure Finance Mechanisms; Summary of Economic Design Principles for Green Infrastructure Finance |
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3. Conceptual Methodology for Assessing and Allocating RisksRationale for Methodology; Figure 2: Why Low-Emission Projects Are Not Getting Financed?; Similarities and Differences between Conventional Infrastructure and Low-Emission Investments; Box 3: Characteristics of Project Finance; Figure 3: Project Finance for a Power Plant; Tables; Table 1: Additional Risks of Low-Emission Investments; Table 2: Technical and Financial Factors for Coal and Wind Energy Investments; Figure 4: Energy Efficiency Projects May Be Less Attractive than Core Business Projects |
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Understanding the Financial Viability Gap--A Wind Farm CaseBox 4: Capital Market Gap for South East Asia Biomass Plant; Figure 5: Explaining the Financial Viability Gap for a Wind Farm; Making Green Infrastructure Finance Work to Close the Viability Gap; Figure 6: Filling the Viability Gap with Public Benefits: Wind Farm Case; Combining Instruments for Effective Financing Solution; Figure 7: Filling the Viability Gap with Public Benefits: Bus Rapid Transit Case; Table 3: Public Sector Policies and Instruments; Figure 8: Green Finance Interventions in a Project Finance Structure |
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Examples of Green Finance Financial StructuresFigure 9: Example of Wind Energy Project; Box 5: Feed-in Tariffs; Table 4: Financial Structure for Wind Energy Project--Needed CTF Support; Table 5: Alternative Financial Structure for Wind Energy Project; Figure 10: Example of Geothermal Project; Table 6: Financial Structure for Geothermal Energy Project; Figure 11: Example of Energy Efficiency Project; Table 7: Financial Structure for Building Energy Efficiency Project; 4. Assessment of Green Investment Climate in EAP Countries; The Role of Country Assessment Methodology |
| Summary |
This report builds on the conclusions of the Green Infrastructure Finance: Leading Initiatives and Research report and lays out a simple and elegant way in which scarce public financing can leverage market interest in 'greening' infrastructure, particularly in the East Asia and Pacific Region. The framework introduced in the report bridges ideas and concepts between environmental economics and project finance practices and consists largely of an analytical methodology for determining the financial viability gap of low-emission projects and an approach for assessing and strengthening the green |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Infrastructure (Economics)
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Sustainable development -- Finance
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Infrastructure (Economics)
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Sustainable development -- Finance
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shlyakhtenko, Andrey
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| ISBN |
9780821395288 |
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0821395289 |
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