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    A Teaching Case on Chinese Local Environmental Governance
    (2019-04-29) He, Liuyang
    The local primary goals for top leaders in Luowen County have transitioned from economic growth to environmental protection to poverty alleviation since 2005. As the head of county environmental protection bureau, what could Yang Deqiang do when he got into the dilemma when performing his duty in environmental protection discordant with following his superior for achieving other policy goals out of his hands? Are there any solutions from a bigger picture?
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    Can a Modernized U.S. Development Finance Institution Help Close the Energy Financing Gap?
    (2018-06-05) Phillips, Jonathan; Girardeau, Hannah; Masters, Harry
    Government-sponsored development finance institutions (DFIs) have become key delivery mechanisms for poverty alleviation and the exercise of soft power. Energy, and the power sector in particular, represents both a leading sector of bilateral DFI investment—more than manufacturing, transportation, health care, and agriculture combined—and a critical enabling sector for broader development that requires significant additional investment in the coming decades. A reformed and fully equipped U.S. DFI would directly provide billions of dollars in additional energy sector investment and would catalyze many billions more in private investment. Such an institution could also expand employment opportunities, in emerging markets and the United States, and enable broader growth. In the process, it would strengthen economic and political ties with U.S. allies and provide an alternative to Chinese infrastructure finance—an alternative that is more transparent, more deeply rooted in democratic institutions, and more market oriented. With earnest and bipartisan consensus building around U.S. development finance reform, this policy brief seeks to summarize the importance of energy sector finance in the context of development and foreign policy, to outline the energy financing gaps in emerging markets, and to analyze how the new tools and authorities proposed under the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development Act (BUILD Act) legislation would equip the U.S. DFI to respond to those financing needs.
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    Climate Finance for Just Transitions: Building Low-Carbon Development Pathways in an Age of US-China Rivalry
    (2022-09-14) Phillips, Jonathan; Ewing, Jackson; Rao, Abhay; Teji, Liilnna; Plutshack, Victoria; Jeuland, Marc
    This paper investigates challenges throughout the international climate finance landscape and recommends pathways for how investments into low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can more effectively drive low-carbon development. The paper focuses on three issue areas: (1) aligning national climate strategies and international finance, (2) finding avenues for positive climate finance outcomes in an era of growing rivalry between Chinese and Group of Seven—particularly US—public financiers, and (3) reforming major climate finance practices and institutions to more effectively cater to the needs of LMIC stakeholders. This paper is part of a series of work under the New Frontiers in Climate Finance project, led by the James E. Rogers Energy Access Project, which is scoping the challenges and opportunities inherent to climate finance in LMICs, and seeking to help increase the scale and transformational impact of climate finance to these economies. The project aims to mobilize key stakeholder organizations around a common vision for aligning the tools of development finance with the needs and strategies of LMICs, and to build low-carbon development pathways that support poverty alleviation while reducing the next global wave of greenhouse gas emissions.