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Finance
Unpacking Five Key Barriers to Transition Finance
While money is increasingly flowing to climate solutions and clean technologies, financing emission reductions in high-emitting and hard-to-abate sectors faces challenges to ensure credibility and real economy impact. Here we outline five key barriers to transition finance.
Why Sectoral Target-Setting Finance Frameworks Are Key to Industrial Decarbonization
Setting climate targets to reduce financed emissions is now the norm for most of the banking sector. Many large banks are now eager to shift focus from target-setting to measuring and deploying transition finance. But — while mobilizing capital for the transition is necessary — laying the right foundation through target-setting is still critical if banks are to not only reduce financed emissions but also finance emissions reductions.
Steel Sector Financiers Disclose Climate Alignment for the First Time — and There’s More Work to Do
The journey towards a more sustainable steel sector has reached a new milestone with the publication of the first Sustainable STEEL Principles (SSP) Annual Report. A joint effort led by RMI in collaboration with six pioneering banks — Citi, Crédit Agricole CIB, ING, Société Générale, Standard Chartered,…
Overcoming Three Finance Dilemmas for US SAF Producers in 2024
According to project finance experts, US-based sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producers will face three main dilemmas when financing commercial-scale projects in 2024: what feedstock to use, whether to get government loan guarantees, and how to de-risk operations.
Transition Credits Are Gearing Up to Support Global Energy Transformation
A new type of carbon credit for the global energy transition could work. Here’s how.
