Catalyzing climate finance: A guidebook on policy and financing options to support green, low-emission and climate-resilient development

This is a useful general resource covering many aspects of financing LEDS, and is relevant across several of the sections covered by this guide. The principal audience for this publication is public development practitioners at national and subnational levels, as well as domestic and international experts involved in assisting governments in catalyzing finance for climate investment and sustainable development. The guide outlines a four-step methodology to assist developing countries in selecting and deploying an optimal mix of public policies and financing instruments to catalyze climate finance in line with national development priorities:

• Step 1: Identify priority mitigation and adaptation technologies
• Step 2: Define and assess key barriers to technology diffusion
• Step 3: Determine appropriate policy mix to catalyze climate capital
• Step 4: Select financing options to create an enabling policy environment