Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Higher cost of finance exacerbates a climate investment trap in developing economies

  • Nadia Ameli,
  • Olivier Dessens,
  • Matthew Winning,
  • Jennifer Cronin,
  • Hugues Chenet,
  • Paul Drummond,
  • Alvaro Calzadilla,
  • Gabrial Anandarajah,
  • Michael Grubb

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24305-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Access to low cost finance is vital for developing economies’ transition to green energy. Here the authors show how modelled decarbonization pathways for developing economies are disproportionately impacted by different weighted average cost of capital (WACC) assumptions.