Guarantees for green markets: Potential and challenges

This report from the Inter-American Development Bank considers some of the challenges of investing in low carbon markets, explores how guarantees (principally credit guarantees) can respond to those challenges, and provides various examples of guarantees used in Latin America and the Caribbean. ChapterĀ 5 of the report considers the advantages and disadvantages of different types of guarantee (credit and performance guarantees); chapterĀ 6 provides case studies of the use of guarantees.