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Finance
From Bottlenecks to Breaking Ground: Why COP30 Must Prioritize Early-Stage Project Preparation
Emerging Markets and Developing Economies (EMDEs) are rich in climate ambition, yet face a debilitating paradox: they have plenty of early-stage project concepts, but insufficient early-stage finance and, in many cases, limited technical capacity to transition from concept to reality. Every year at COP and other international venues, financiers and…
Financial Institutions Need Smarter Transition Intelligence — Here’s How
Corporate transition assessments can be transformed into tools for delivering transition intelligence with three key innovations.
Clean Energy 101: Nationally Determined Contributions
The landmark Paris Climate Agreement — a legally binding international treaty on climate change — is now in its 10th year. It is also a pivotal year for climate action as it marks the deadline for countries to revise and submit their climate plans under that treaty. These plans…
Four Ways to Jump-Start Clean Hydrogen Finance in 2025
A “hydrogen finance roadshow” highlighted five expectation gaps between developers and financial institutions — as well as four market-based ways to bridge them.
Tackling Climate Lending Risks
Newly released software reveals and helps financial supervisors tackle transition risks in lending portfolios.