The politics of climate finance: Consensus and partisanship in designing green state investment banks in the United Kingdom and Australia

Contextualizing the Covid-19 pandemic for a carbon-constrained world: Insights for sustainability transitions, energy justice, and research methodology

“…This could help achieve a “Christmas” or “Coronavirus” effect for energy and climate policy that encompasses: Instructing people how to immediately reduce their carbon footprints (e.g. using energy efficient technologies in their homes, eating less meat, avoiding air travel [42] ); Bolstering infrastructure, institutions and industrial strategy (e.g.. incentives for clean energy manufacturing and deployment including wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles [43] ); Building capacity to mitigate, monitor and manage emergency measures (e.g., tracking plans for universal energy access and SDG7, deployment of micro grids, bans on disconnection [44] ); Properly financing social responses in ways commensurate to the challenge (e.g., substantially increase funding for national and multinational climate and development organizations or green investment banks, investment for deployment of low-carbon technologies and infrastructure [45] , [46] ); Restoring economic activity gradually and via approaches that are backed by science (e.g., development pathways synchronized to the NDCs of the Paris Accord or the findings of the IPCC, investment of economic stimulus funds in low-carbon technologies, Green New Deals [47] , [48] , [49] ); Harnessing innovation and the development of new technologies (e.g., the next generation of transport fuels, energy storage, smart grids or hydrogen fuel cells) [50] , [51] , [52] ; Utilizing trusted institutions and individuals to convey persistent and repeated information, messages and narratives in ways that resonate with audiences (e.g., major news outlets, the IPCC, governments, major corporations, churches, restaurants and celebrities sent persistently through various media channels) [53] , [54] , [55] , [56] ; While undertaking these steps, protecting the vulnerable (e.g., households in energy or mobility poverty, marginalized groups or indigenous peoples) [57] , [58] , [59] , [60] . …”

“…Properly financing social responses in ways commensurate to the challenge (e.g., substantially increase funding for national and multinational climate and development organizations or green investment banks, investment for deployment of low-carbon technologies and infrastructure [45] , [46] );…”

Accelerating the speed and scale of climate finance in the post-pandemic context

“…Direct public funding is necessary when returns are low (grants for non-marketable services) or when targeting finance directly to investors rather than intermediaries is more efficient (R&D funding)(Whitney, 2020;Geddes et al, 2020).4 For example, in 2020 the Total group secured a USD 15 billion loan for a LNG train in Mozambique, the largest project financing for sub-Saharan Africa (Financial Times, July 16, 2020). One-third was guaranteed by the Export-Import Bank of the US, one-quarter by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and the rest by the African Development Bank and others, including Indian State-owned oil and gas majors.…”

Influence Analysis of Environmental Information Disclosure Impact on Green Economy Development: An Exploratory Study Based on fsQCA

“…The Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) method adopted in this paper is a case-oriented method instead of a variable-oriented research method. QCA has been applied comprehensively in organization and management research at the technical analysis and research method levels, and the fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method has superior performance for studying "joint effect" and "interactive relationship" (Elliott 2013). Therefore, this paper uses the fsQCA method to analyze the "joint effect" of various factors on patch release behavior and the "interactive relationship" among various factors to identify the single factors in uencing the carbon economies ' and green nance.…”