Public Privatequity Partnerships : Accelerating the Growth of Climate Related Private Equity Investment
This brief expalins about accelerating the growth of climate related private equity investment and Mitigating climate change requires vast investment. The World Bank estimates the volume of financing needed to meet the additional costs by the inte...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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International Finance Corporation, Washington, D.C.
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/878281491572553385/Public-privatequity-partnerships-accelerating-the-growth-of-climate-related-private-equity-investment-issue-brief http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26452 |
| Summary: | This brief expalins about accelerating
the growth of climate related private equity investment and
Mitigating climate change requires vast investment. The
World Bank estimates the volume of financing needed to meet
the additional costs by the international community for
climate change-related development. However, this sum
represents only the additional or incremental costs: it
would need to leverage nearly 20 times that amount—or up to
as much as $4.6 trillion—from underlying investment finance
from other public or private sources. These investment needs
are diverse, and catalyzing the necessary finance to address
the challenge of climate change will require interventions
across all asset classes. Among the various types ofcapital,
Private Equity/Venture Capital (PE/VC) is uniquely suited to
financing climate friendly investments that are risky,
innovative,and relatively small. As a result, less than 2
percent of PE/VC fund activities spread across all the
emerging markets outside of India and China, despite these
countries making up 20 percent of the world’s economy.
Further, most investment in emerging markets has been made
by international firms investing from overseas. There is
still a very limited numberof locally developed climate
friendly private equity funds in Emerging Markets. |
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