A Scoping Review of Barriers to Investment in Climate Change Solutions

The finance sector has engaged with policy development processes associated with climate solutions for well over a decade, with the aim of overcoming barriers to investment. In this paper we analyse 31 practice-based policy reports which highlight key barriers to such investing. We use those practic...

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Published inSustainability Vol. 11; no. 11; p. 3201
Main Authors Hafner, Sarah, James, Olivia, Jones, Aled
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2019
Subjects
Alternative energy sources
Brownfields
Central banks
Climate change
Climate change mitigation
Content analysis
Decision making
Energy
Energy efficiency
Energy policy
Environmental policy
Expected utility
Industrialized nations
Infrastructure
Investment
Regulation of financial institutions
Renewable energy technologies
Renewable resources
Wind power
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Summary:The finance sector has engaged with policy development processes associated with climate solutions for well over a decade, with the aim of overcoming barriers to investment. In this paper we analyse 31 practice-based policy reports which highlight key barriers to such investing. We use those practice-based policy reports to identify themes associated with barriers to investment to conduct a scoping literature review of academic research. We identify 91 relevant papers and use content analysis to summarise the barriers identified in a structured way to help inform the research landscape in a timely manner. Given the urgency of this issue, we call on the academic community to focus more effort in this new and emerging discipline and, in particular, on the need for an independent view on the validity of some of the claims made in these practice-based policy reports.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su11113201