Investment

Context Every year, households, public institutions, and private entities spent billion euros to acquire tangible assets and durable consumption goods such as buildings, dwellings, transport infrastructures and vehicles, energy production and storage facilities, factories and more. Using, renovating, or constructing these assets are the main sources of greenhouse gas emissions. As these assets are supposed […]

Context In France, 2023 was marked by an unprecedented commitment to adapting to climate change. First, the national reference warming trajectory for adaptation to climate change (TRACC) was put out to public consultation. This trajectory considers an average warming level for France of +2°C in 2030, +2.7°C in 2050 and +4°C in 2100 (corresponding to […]

Context Leading the energy transition requires 58 billion euros of additional investment per year over the period 2024-2030. These investments are needed to renovate housing, electrify the vehicle fleet, maintain and develop transport infrastructure, build wind and solar farms, and renew nuclear power.    How can climate investments be financed? Under what conditions can households, […]

Context: Multiple studies demonstrate the value of anticipating and adapting to the effects of climate change (Global Commission on Adaptation 2019; COACCH 2018). Yet the argument that the costs of inaction far outweigh the costs of action is not enough to trigger the latter (I4CE and Ramboll 2021). Indeed, global assessments provide little information on […]

  The French recovery plan and its consequences for the climate have been the subject of much debate. It should allow France to catch up on some of its investments in sustainable mobility, building renovation and decarbonated energy production. For , it is necessary to anticipate what will follow the end of the French recovery […]

This project is part of the European Climate Initiative (EUKI). EUKI is a project financing instrument by the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The EUKI competition for project ideas is implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH. It is the overarching goal of the EUKI […]

I4CE supports partner institutions in tracking domestic climate finance aims to disseminate the Landscape’s lessons and practices and to support partner institutions in conducting similar exercises in the service of public debate and investment plans.   At the European level, works with the European Environment Agency and other actors to advance Europe-wide discussions on improving the tracking […]

, with the support of Climate KIC, works on a study to assess the potential, the restreints and provide an analysis of  the incentives to use crowdfunding for the energy transition:   Analysis of existing incentives and their potential effects on the development of renewable energy already in full swing (ex : CRE tenders and the […]

Context Our homes, vehicles, the factories and the farms, the roads, canals and railroads, the power stations and power grids, as well as many more equipment are the permanent foundation of our economy and our daily lives. They are the result our investments, accumulated over decades – sometimes centuries – and continue to evolve, year […]