There is now – probably more than ever before – a shared understanding in the international climate process that tackling climate change will not be possible without a major mobilization, or a ‘re-channelling’, of private finance. The central question therefore becomes how scarce public financial means can best be used to unlock mitigation and adaptation investment. Finding answers to this question is what UNEP Finance Initiative’s ‘Demystifying’ series aims to contribute to. It does so by helping to increase policy-makers’ understanding of private finance, and by introducing a generic logic and approach – a sequence of questions – that climate negotiators can follow when debating, and ultimately designing, the public interventions required for the unlocking of private climate finance.
Read Demystifying private climate finance, Executive Summary.