Environmental Finance
The Environmental Finance Program at Re-Define is designed to apply our financial expertise to help improve environmental outcomes
You can download some of our policy notes and reports below
This flagship new report from Re-Define commissioned by the Greens at the European Parliament lays out a Blue Print for Funding the Green New Deal and Building a Green Financial System.
It can be downloaded Here
This new European Parliament policy paper from Re-Define written by Sony Kapoor considers how globalization has changed the nature of risks we are facing. It shows how, at the same time as idiosyncratic risks have fallen, the threat of system wide risks has risen significantly. This has been accompanied by an ever increasing degree of externalities and faster and larger cross border flows of not just commerce but people, information technologies and pathogens. While the increase in cross border flows has generated new opportunities, it has also exposed us to new threats. This calls for new institutional structures and a new approach to global governance.
The European Union should, as the most integrated region in the world, take the lead in both taking these emergent challenges head on and developing a model for new governance that can be replicated at the global level. This would be beneficial for Europe, and for the world.
In the second part, this paper lays out specific short to medium term measures that Europe must take in order to tackle the triple fiscal, financial and climate crises confronting the world. This would not only help Europe emerge stronger and more integrated but would also allow the Union to take the lead in global affairs.About 95% our writings and publications are tailor made for governments and international institutions and are not public. However we are committed to putting as many of our ideas and policy recommendations in the public domain as possible.
The following policy brief, that Re-Define wrote for the Foundation of European Progressive Studies, deals with the issue of funding adaptation and mitigation. The paper begins to not just lay out the foundations of Re-Define's vision of a Green Financial System but also makes some concrete suggestions about how best to find money for Green Investments and for Adaptation in these fiscally stressed times.
Tackling Climate Change: Tools to Fund Adaptation and Mitigation
This concept note suggests how a Technology Adaptation and Insurance Fund could be set up under the UNFCC to help reach a deal at Copenhagen
Technology Adaptation and Insurance Fund
This think piece compares and contrasts emissions trading programs and carbon taxes in terms of their effectiveness in helping reduce emissions