How can public climate finance most effectively leverage private capital?

Attention is increasingly focused both on the barriers to investment the private sector faces and the specific interventions the public sector may use to break down these barriers.  Critical questions have arisen around the design of different public instruments and in what contexts they can be most effectively applied.

This public meeting will draw out the major lessons from current practices and proposals to leverage private finance through public sector interventions, with discussions focused around particular successes and failures.  The event focuses on the following questions:

• What specific risks do low carbon and climate-resilient investments generate for private investors, and how can these risks be mitigated?
• What public interventions have succeeded and in what contexts/under what circumstances? What is their replication potential?
• What new interventions can national and multilateral public institutions (and in particular development finance institutions) make to catalyse and leverage low carbon and climate resilient investments from the private sector?