DPS5: Energy Finance: Investment Risk, Infrastructure, and the Transition of Energy-Intensive Industries.
Description
Mobilizing capital at scale is a central challenge of global energy development. This session examines energy and infrastructure finance from the perspectives of risk, investment, and policy, covering project finance, blended finance, green bonds, carbon pricing mechanisms, and the roles of multilateral development banks, DFIs, and institutional investors. Attention is given to large-scale infrastructure and energy-intensive, hard-to-abate sectors, including mining, metals, cement, and industrial processing, where capital intensity, long asset lives, and policy uncertainty complicate transition pathways. The discussion explores carbon pricing and border adjustment mechanisms as drivers of industrial competitiveness and investment decisions, alongside risk allocation, policy credibility, and financing conditions in emerging and developing economies, with a focus on how financial structures can support both decarbonization and competitiveness.
Guiding questions / Intended takeaway
What financial instruments, carbon pricing mechanisms, risk-sharing arrangements, and policy frameworks are most effective in mobilizing long-term capital for energy, infrastructure, and industrial investments, especially in energy-intensive, hard-to-abate sectors, while managing transition risk, maintaining economic competitiveness, and driving decarbonization at scale?
DPS5: Energy Finance: Investment Risk, Infrastructure, and the Transition of Energy-Intensive Industries.
Edmar Luiz Fagundes de Almeida (Session Chair) Professor and Energy Economist, Institute for Energy Studies (IEPUC), PUC-Rio · BrazilGregory B. Upton Executive Director, Energy Institute; Associate Professor–Research, Louisiana State University (LSU) · United StatesJean-Michel Glachant Part-time Professor; Former Director, Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute (EUI) · ItalyTomás Reyes Director, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile · ChileMauricio Riveros Rodríguez Energy Sector Leader, Investment Promotion Division, InvestChile · ChileDescription
Mobilizing capital at scale is a central challenge of global energy development. This session examines energy and infrastructure finance from the perspectives of risk, investment, and policy, covering project finance, blended finance, green bonds, carbon pricing mechanisms, and the roles of multilateral development banks, DFIs, and institutional investors. Attention is given to large-scale infrastructure and energy-intensive, hard-to-abate sectors, including mining, metals, cement, and industrial processing, where capital intensity, long asset lives, and policy uncertainty complicate transition pathways. The discussion explores carbon pricing and border adjustment mechanisms as drivers of industrial competitiveness and investment decisions, alongside risk allocation, policy credibility, and financing conditions in emerging and developing economies, with a focus on how financial structures can support both decarbonization and competitiveness.
Guiding questions / Intended takeaway
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