Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure: A Resource Paper
Pension Fund Investment in Infrastructure: A Resource Paper
Barriers to low-carbon investment may be financial, structural or technical. Financial barriers include fossil fuel subsidies, and the unpriced carbon externality. These discourage local businesses, project developers, vendors, technology providers from offering low carbon solutions to the market, and hamper institutional and market financing mechanisms enabling such businesses to grow. Structural barriers include network effects (need for flexible and sufficient grid capacity), fragmentation an