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Op-ed on Low-Carbon Development: What Roles for Development Finance Institutions?

11 December 2015 - Foreword of the week

Ian Cochran and Mariana Deheza have written an op-ed on the French Huffington Post on the occasion of the launching of the initiative “Five voluntary Climate Mainstreaming Principles” in the sidelines of COP21  the 7 of December 2015. This Op-ed presents the work of I4CE – Institute for Climate Economics on Mainstreaming Low-Carbon Climate-Resilient growth pathways into Development Finance Institutions’ activities.

Four main issues are discussed in this Op-ed :

  • Why the Low-Carbon Climate-Resilient (LCCR) growth is a challenge that goes well beyond the 100 billion USD political commitment
  • The role of DFIs in fostering climate and coherent development
  • The needed paradigm shift from ‘climate finance’ to ‘mainstreaming’ to support the LCCR transition
  • The keys to further DFI action

You can find the English version of this op-ed on the website of Jean Jaurès Foundation “Progressives for Climate

 

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