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Renewables are often funded through specialised financing facilities that rely on subsidies or access to soft loans. This approach has at least two drawbacks. Firstly, compliance with environmental standards becomes a cost, with access to financing as its sole reward, a benefit that diminishes when excess liquidity characterises the financial market; and secondly, sustainable practices and how they influence business continuity are ignored, much less rewarded, as highlighted in BDO Unibank’s experiences. A number of cases are examined to highlight some innovative ways in which climate financing is being brought into the mainstream, among them Indonesia’s coal-to-geothermal swap concept or Aboitiz Renewables’ Tiwi Makban’s climate bond.
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Barcelona, R.G. (2017). Climate Financing. In: Energy Investments. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59139-5_12
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