Publications
Transforming On-Grid Renewable Energy Markets (UNDP, October 2012)
This publication is part of UNDP's efforts to codify and share lessons learnt from how scarce public resources can be used to catalyze larger private financial flows for renewable energy. more
Bloomberg New Energy Finance Roundtable Day Results (UNE, May 2011)
The Bloomberg New Energy Finance Roundtable Day on Climate Finance and Energy Access, held in partnership with UN-Energy, took place in New York on 7 April 2011. more
AGECC Report: Energy for a sustainable future (UNE, March 2010)
AGECC calls on the United Nations system and its Member States to commit themselves to two complementary goals: more
A Global Green New Deal for Climate, Energy, and Development (UNDESA, December 2009)
This paper lays out a strategy - a Global Green New Deal - for reducing greenhouse gas emissions without sacrificing development. more
Bridging the Divide Between Poverty Reduction and Climate Change through Sustainable and Innovative Energy Technologies: Scaling up Sustainable Energy Innovations that Can Address Climate Change Concerns and Poverty Reduction Needs (UNDP, December 2009)
This expert report highlights the need to bridge the divide between climate change and poverty reduction through innovative energy technologies and to bring about transformational impacts to addres more
Global Trends in Sustainable Energy Investment 2009 (UNEP, June 2009)
This annual report prepared by UNEP SEFI and New Energy Finance provides an overview of capital fows and an analysis of the trends in sustainable energy investment activity.Read more more
Climate Change and the World Bank Group: Phase I: An Evaluation of World Bank Win-Win Energy Policy Reforms (WBG, May 2009)
Climate change threatens to derail development, even as development pumps ever-greater quantities of carbon dioxide into an atmosphere already polluted with two centuries of Western emissions. more
Catalysing Low-Carbon Growth in Developing Economies (UNEP, December 2008)
Prepared by Vivid Economics for UNEP, UNEP FI, and a number of institutional investor networks, this report examines innovative Public Finance Mechanisms to scale up private sector investment in climate solutions. A companion report presents the Case study analysis supporting key recommendations in the lead report. Read more more
The materiality of climate change: How finance copes with the ticking clock – The perspective of capital markets (UNEP, December 2008)
With an emphasis on corporate sector assets, this report brings together key fndings from the investment world, describing best practices on climate change, identifying risks and opportunities, and assessing how companies deal with them. Read Full-Text of Report more
Reports on financing options, long-term strategy and performance indicators (UNFCCC, December 2008)
The Expert Group on Technology Transfer prepared the following reports: 1. Recommendations on future financing options for enhancing the development, deployment, diffusion and transfer of technologies under the Convention 2. Strategy paper for the long-term perspective beyond 2012, including sectoral approaches, to facilitate the development, deployment, diffusion and transfer of technologies under the Convention 3. more