Financing Climate Action : India in a Global Context (Hardcover)

Introduction PART 1 - Climate Finance Landscape 1. Financing Net-zero: An Assessment of Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches 2. Leveraging Public Finance for Scaling Renewable Energy Projects 3. A Pragmatic View on Climate Finance 4. Trade-offs: Risks and Prices of Renewable Energy Generation ? Alarm Calls are Ringing Out 5. How to ‘Reform, Target and Swap’ Public Financial Flows Effectively: Lessons from Energy Financing in India PART 2 ? Governance 6. Addressing Climate-Related Financial Risks: Interrogating Efficacy of Actions by RBI 7. Climate Finance and Achieving SDGs and Climate Resilience in Low-Income Contexts: The Bay of Bengal Region 8. Financing Climate Action at Subnational Level: Cases from India (Maharashtra) 9. Financing Climate action at Local Level: Scope, Opportunities and Challenges PART 3 - Instruments and Mechanisms 10. Increasing Flows for Green and Transition Finance ? Thinking Beyond Bank Debt 11. Navigating Carbon Pricing in India: Assessing Policy Options, Impacts, and Pathways to a Sustainable Economy 12. Illustrating the Case of a Sub-National Climate Finance Need (Maharashtra) 13. Beyond the Trillions: Solving for Climate through Innovation and Risk rather than Big Money PART - 4 Financing The Real Economy to Address Climate Change 14. Blended Capital market Mechanisms for Critical Decarbonisation Projects in India 15. Mainstreaming Transition Plan Disclosures for Indian Companies 16. Carbon markets as a necessary element to support Climate Financing in India 17. Financing India's Green Grid: Overcoming Challenges and Unlocking Investment for Renewable Integration 18. Financing Energy Efficiency for MSMEs in India 19. Financing a Just Transition in the Coal Sector: Trade Union Perspectives on Social Equity and Sustainable Development PART 5 - Public Finance 20. Grants and Granting Mechanisms for the Loss and Damage Fund 21. Intermediation in a bank-based financial system and financing climate action: a view from India 22. Green QE: What the Lender of the Last Resort can do for Saving the Planet PART 6 Lessons From Other Economies 23. Placing Your bets for Clean Energy Transition ? Public or Private? 24. Green Fiscal Instruments for a Transition to Low-Carbon Economy: Experience from European Countries and Lessons for India 25. Country Platforms as a Way to Accelerate Development and Climate Action? ? Discussing Global Developments and Lessons for India