October 2, 2019 by Tyeler Matsuo and Lucy Kessler

The Climate Finance Leadership Initiative (CFLI) is laying out concrete plans for the private sector to finance the low-carbon transition, say Tyeler Matsuo and Lucy Kessler of Rocky Mountain Institute. One important insight of their new report “Financing the Low-Carbon Future” is that it’s not enough to back clean energy. Climate finance also needs to accelerate the retirement and transformation of the carbon assets that are responsible for 78% … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Investment Tagged With: coal, decommissioning, emissions, gas, industry, investment, oil, renewables, transport

March 12, 2019 by Tyeler Matsuo and Julia Meisel

Auctions for delivering an amount of power at a defined price are already well established for renewables. “Climate Auctions” do the same with carbon emissions: a carbon price is guaranteed to the winning bidder, but only paid on delivery of the emissions cut. Tyeler Matsuo and Julia Meisel at Rocky Mountain Institute say this is proving particularly useful in emerging and developing countries where progress in building up their climate laws is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Energy, Policies Tagged With: auctions, carbon, emissions, ghg, investment, policies, regulation