These resources describe the need for finance and capital to fund clean energy and low carbon technologies and markets.
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Lewis Milford, Clean Energy Group. September 4, 2007. Lewis Milford will present this paper at the G8 Gleneagles Ministerial Meeting in Berlin, Germany in early September 2007.
UNFCCC - Dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention. Fourth workshop, Vienna, 27-31 August 2007. Dialogue working paper 8.
Report on the analysis of existing and potential investment and financial flows relevant to the development of an effective and appropriate international response to climate change.
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By the Carbon Trust in conjunction with L.E.K. Consulting, July 2006.
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Lewis Milford, CEG President and Executive Director, Clean Energy States Alliance, presented "US Public-Private Partnerships for Investing in Renewable Energy - US State Renewable Energy Funds" at the International Grid-Connected Renewable Energy Policy Forum held in Mexico City from February 1-3 2006. The forum is on behalf of the Energy Ministry of Mexico, the Global Environment Facility, The World Bank, and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Programme (ESMAP), and organized in association with the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
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By Clean Energy Group and Heinrich Böll Foundation for the Montreal Strategic Climate Change Workshop on Sub-National Strategies for Clean Energy Investment, Technology Deployment and Innovation. December 2005.
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Commissioned by UNEP’s DTIE SEFI, conducted by BASE. December 2005. Contributing author: Allison Schumacher, CEG.
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By Peter Mallaburn, Head of Government and International Affairs, Carbon Trust. October 4, 2005.
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National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (2005), "Economic Instruments for Long-term Reductions in Energy-based Carbon Emissions", Ottawa, Canada.
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Prepared by Clean Energy Group and the Carbon Trust. This first phase of a joint project between CEG and the Carbon Trust was completed in April 2005.
The Report 1) identifies a number of important barriers that hinder investment in clean energy markets; 2) reveals considerable enthusiasm in the transatlantic investment community for promoting new financial structures and policy mechanisms; and, 3) sets out next steps to gain support for the initiative through two subsequent phases of the work.
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May 11, 2004. Chris Mottshead, BP. Mottershead gave this slide presentation at the Climate Group meeting in Toronto. In his presentation, he outlines 16 new business opportunities for BP and other companies, with a strategy to widen those “wedges” to real businesses.
The longer version of this analysis can be found in the July/August 2004 edition of Foreign Affairs by Sir John Browne, Group Chief Executive of BP, in “Beyond Kyoto.” He argues for a similar cap and trade approach, combined with technology innovation and public investment to take the policy discussions into the real world of business opportunity.
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By Clean Energy Group, May 2004.
“This report, written by the Clean Energy Group, looks at the energy industry from a disruptive point of view. If the natural process of disruption is allowed to proceed, it would bring about change that would produce critical social, economic, and environmental benefits…I hope this report helps you frame the key issues in a unique and powerful way."
Clayton Christensen
Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School
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Prepared by the Heinrich Böll Foundation. December 2003. This publication offers a selection of views and experiences of U.S. states and German Länder governments, as well as business leaders and NGO representatives from Germany and the United States, by introducing their renewable energy initiatives, assessing their impact on climate protection, economic growth and employment opportunities, elaborating on the potentials of cooperation, and by exploring participation in the International Conference for Renewable Energy 2004.
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The Clean Energy Initiative is an ongoing effort of the Clean Energy Group, E+Co. and the Reinvestment Fund to identify and examine opportunities for collaborative investment that will advance the deployment and commercialization of clean energy technologies. Numerous public and private investors have established targeted investment funds for low-carbon or clean energy technologies, but to date, there has been no effort to take a systematic approach to create new sources of such capital. This memo discusses the findings of a group of funders who met at the Pocantico conference center in New York in November 2003.