The following publications can be downloaded by clicking on the icons to the right:
Public venture capital study
This is the first piece of specialised research comissioned directly by the SEF Alliance members. The report examines the current clean energy venture financing landscape with a specific focus on the role of public sector-sponsored venture capital. It finds that public venture capital can catalyse private investment and fill the significant funding gaps that hamper commercialisation of clean technologies. It also looks at the core commonalities and differences in the approaches, structures, and metrics of success for existing public venture capital funds.
Public finance for climate change mitigation
This report, published in December 2008, provides an overview of mechanisms being used by the public sector to help scale up the climate mitigation markets, with a particular focus on the clean energy sector.
The SEFI Public Finance Alliance
This report serves two main purposes:
1) to consolidate relevant information about the SEF Alliance - its structure, activities, target participants, and the contribution it can make to the development of global clean energy markets; and
2) to demonstrate - via concrete examples of innovative actions - some of the synergies and overlaps among programmes of relevant sustainable energy financing entities around the world.
Sustainable energy public finance mechanisms
Two reports prepared jointly by BASE and UNEP provide analyses of public finance mechanisms that are being used by governments around the world to help increase investment in sustainable energy and to catalyse growth of the sector. The first report is on public finance mechanisms for sustainable energy generally, the second focuses more specifically on energy efficiency measures.
Public finance mechanisms for sustainable energy are publicly backed interventions, both financial and non-financial, that help close these financing gaps, catalyse private investment and accelerate market uptake of renewable energy and energy efficiency measures. They include financing instruments such as contigent grants, soft loans, incubator programs, mezzanine and equity funding and guarantee programmes.
Public finance mechanisms can be used to fill the financing gaps that market failures leave in the various stages of sustainable energy development, from the idea through to commercialisation. These gaps keep clean energy technologies, projects, and enterprises from reaching commercial viability.
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