TY - JOUR
T1 - Developing country finance in a post-2020 global climate agreement
AU - Hannam, Phillip M.
AU - Liao, Zhenliang
AU - Davis, Steven J.
AU - Oppenheimer, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
P.M.H. was supported by the Chinese Ministry of Education through a Chinese Government Scholarship at Tongji University at the inception of work. S.J.D acknowledges support from the Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Fellowships for Young International Distinguished Scientists. The research is based on work supported by the Walbridge Fund in the Princeton Environment Institute, as well as the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, both at Princeton University, and research funding from the Ryoichi Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund. The authors are grateful to R. Socolow, R. Keohane, S. Batterman, V. Jha, L. Rajamani and B. Rudyk for providing reactions.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - A central task for negotiators of the post-2020 global climate agreement is to construct a finance regime that supports low-carbon development in developing economies. As power sector investments between developing countries grow, the climate finance regime should incentivize the decarbonization of these major sources of finance by integrating them as a complement to the commitments of developed nations. The emergence of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, South-South Cooperation Fund and other nascent institutions reveal the fissures that exist in rules and norms surrounding international finance in the power sector. Structuring the climate agreement in Paris to credit qualified finance from the developing world could have several advantages, including: (1) encouraging low-carbon cooperation between developing countries; (2) incentivizing emerging investors to prefer low-carbon investments; and (3) enabling more cost-effective attainment of national and global climate objectives. Failure to coordinate on standards now could hinder low-carbon development in the decades to come.
AB - A central task for negotiators of the post-2020 global climate agreement is to construct a finance regime that supports low-carbon development in developing economies. As power sector investments between developing countries grow, the climate finance regime should incentivize the decarbonization of these major sources of finance by integrating them as a complement to the commitments of developed nations. The emergence of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, South-South Cooperation Fund and other nascent institutions reveal the fissures that exist in rules and norms surrounding international finance in the power sector. Structuring the climate agreement in Paris to credit qualified finance from the developing world could have several advantages, including: (1) encouraging low-carbon cooperation between developing countries; (2) incentivizing emerging investors to prefer low-carbon investments; and (3) enabling more cost-effective attainment of national and global climate objectives. Failure to coordinate on standards now could hinder low-carbon development in the decades to come.
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U2 - 10.1038/nclimate2731
DO - 10.1038/nclimate2731
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84945308035
SN - 1758-678X
VL - 5
SP - 983
EP - 987
JO - Nature Climate Change
JF - Nature Climate Change
IS - 11
ER -