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- Title
Climate finance governance: Fit for purpose?
- Authors
Bracking, Sarah; Leffel, Benjamin
- Abstract
This article consists of a critical review of the conceptual scholarship on the governance of climate finance and includes an overview of the institutional arrangements and governance logics that provide climate finance. New decentralized, polycentric structures allow for climate finance to more effectively reach the sub‐ and non‐state actors most directly implementing climate change governance. However, the expansion of climate finance into market‐inflected forms of blended finance, as well as debt‐based financing, express a neoliberal logic that shifts power to market actors. This may challenge the efficacy of climate finance. We suggest that further research is needed on polycentric systems in climate finance, since an apparent expansion in the diversity of providers is also accompanied by a counter‐intuitive concentration of decision‐making power with financial fund managers. We join others in suggesting that the weight of scholarship advocates for a strong return to public authored finance and governance, under the auspices of Green New Deal programs and more widely. This article is categorized under:Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance
- Subjects
GREEN New Deal (United States); PUBLIC finance; ELECTRICITY markets; INVESTMENT advisors; CLIMATE change
- Publication
WIREs: Climate Change, 2021, Vol 12, Issue 4, p1
- ISSN
1757-7780
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/wcc.709