Mobilizing Private Sector Capital for Low-Carbon Investments in Developing Countries

Alexandre Chavarot and Matthew Konieczny

Chapter 8 in Renewable Energy Finance:Funding the Future of Energy, 2020, pp 171-196 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: The OECD estimates that $6.9 trillion a year needs to be spent globally until 2035 in order to maintain global temperature increase within a 2℃ range, of which 60–70% will be in emerging economies. The energy sector alone represents a third of this investment need, or circa $1.5 trillion in these countries (of which 40% is in energy generation). Against this, investment in clean energy generation has amounted to an average of $160 billion in emerging countries in the past couple of years. This suggest a funding shortfall of about $450 billion a year, equivalent to three times current levels of investment…

Keywords: Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy Finance; Clean Energy Finance; Green Investments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q2 Q48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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