Money Matters on Our Way to a Greener Future: Biogas Plants’ Financing with Export Credits

Abstract

Financing will be an essential issue in our collective efforts to gradually move from an economy run on fossil fuels towards a future based on new and greener business models. Today, the private markets are a long way from ready to handle this challenge alone, and policymakers can expect to have a central and active role to play for years to come.

The new OECD arrangement on export credits: Breakthrough or bad compromise?

“…For years, the global regime for export credits has faced challenges (Vassard, 2015) and exporters have urged governments to reform the Arrangement. Since 1978 and amended several times in recent decades, the Arrangement seeks to level the playing field by taking away the possibility to provide officially supported export credits below a minimum level.…”