Agreement on the need to massively increase private sector finance to developing and middle-income countries to allow them to transition to clean energy was a clear outcome of the recent Summit for a new Global Financial Pact in Paris. Turning this theory into practice is complicated, yet it is totally doable if all actors in the worlds of policy and finance accept this new reality and stop pretending business-as-usual is an option.
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In 2018, when Cape Town residents stared into the abyss of the taps running dry, there was talk of towing an iceberg from Antarctica to provide much-needed water. Thankfully, entrepreneurs are coming up with less outlandish ideas to help tackle the global crisis of shrinking supplies of freshwater, which deprives more than 2 billion people of access to safe drinking water and threatens our planet’s life-support system.
The fight against climate change is a collective one. However, as pressures mount on individual countries to meet their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), flawed carbon registry infrastructure is making this goal far more difficult to achieve.