Since the first edition of the Blended Finance Guidance in 2020, the blended finance industry has experienced significant growth and evolution. Blending is no longer an innovative approach; it is a well-known and widely used method for providers of development finance and the private sector to work together and leverage each other’s resources and knowledge. Yet it still faces important challenges....

The Black Carbon Finance Study Group report finds that existing funds are already in a position to finance businesses, activities, technologies, and policies that will contribute to cutting black carbon emissions, and that several black carbon-rich sectors are sufficiently mature to absorb finance. The report also outlines key strategies and steps needed to scale up black carbon finance over time....

In March 2022, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) launched a Resilience Package to support resilience and livelihoods in Ukraine and affected countries. Under this Resilience Package, the EBRD structured a blended finance solution to support the construction of the Nadezhda Terminal in Western Ukraine – a multi-purpose logistics hub for the reception, storage, and tranship...

In 2002, the Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (hereafter referred to as PCFV or the Partnership) was launched at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in Johannesburg, South Africa. This voluntary, global, public-private partnership promotes the reduction of air pollution from vehicles in developing and transitional countries through three campaigns: (1) the Lead Campaign, aim...

Based on experience in OECD countries, this book provides a comprehensive discussion of the effectiveness of environmentally related taxes, of recent research on the environmental and economic impacts of applying them, an on their potential for wider use. In particular, it looks at how to overcome obstacles to their implementation. It also discusses the environmental and economic effects of combin...

The EU customs laboratories provide the scientific expertise needed for customs and tax authorities.Their main tasks include:chemical analyses to determine the tariff classification, level of duties and other taxes,control of dangerous substances (e.g., pesticides, pollutants, narcotics, illegal medicines, etc.),determining the authenticity of products and tracking counterfeit,providing overall sc...

The OECD collects official data and statistics from countries on the state of the environment and natural resources, compiled using internationally harmonised methodologies and definitions. The OECD also works with countries on accounting standards and indicator methodologies to track progress towards environmental goals and sustainable development. An increasingly important body of OECD work focu...

Crisis environments, which are becoming systemic, pose significant challenges to local governments. The present study sought to present an academic contribution by introducing an analytical framework designed to scrutinize the institutional capabilities of local governance bodies in effectively responding to the emergent structural nature of crises within contemporary contexts. The study centered ...

Sustainable environmental quality is a global concern, and a concrete remedy to overcome this challenge is a policy priority. Therefore, this study delves into the subject and examines the effects of governance on environmental quality in 180 countries from 1999 to 2021. To maintain comparability and precision, we first classify countries into full and income-level panels and then, innovatively, c...

It has been observed in the literature that efficient energy use reduces production cost and carbon emissions into the environment. This study further argues that institutional quality enhances environmental efficiency of energy consumption. Therefore, this study was carried out with the aim of exploring the influence of institutional quality on environmental efficiency of energy use in BRICS coun...