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HOW CAN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES CONTRIBUTE WHAT CAN INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES DO? by Roberto Ridolfi
May 20, 2009. www.ec.europa.eu Reproduced by The European House-Ambrosetti for the Forum “Developing the Regions of Africa and Europe”, Taormina, October 7 and 8, 2010.
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How can developing countries contribute – What can industrialized countries do? Dr Roberto Ridolfi EuropeAid
Climate Finance – The Mechanics of Public-Private Cooperation Berlin, 20 May 2009 1
How can developing countries contribute – What can industrialized countries do?
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The current context: • International negotiations on climate change have entered "full negotiation mode" • Key issues on the table for Copenhagen: o ambitious reduction targets for developed countries, o nationally appropriate mitigation actions by developing countries o the finance architecture of the agreement, including support for emission reductions, adaptation, technology and capacity building • A new Joint Working Group between the Economic Policy Committee and the Economic and Financial Committee has been established to bring Finance Ministers into the climate file
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ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES including ENERGY
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ENVIRONMENT (ENRTP) Art. 13 of DCI
Former programmes Tropical Forests & Environment + Pilot and preparatory actions
2007 2008 2009 2010
€ € € €
74 101 162 153
million million million million
• Places environment at the core of development • Acts worldwide MDG 7 3
ENRTP Global objective
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to integrate environmental protection requirements into the Community's development and other external policies
as well as to help promote the Community's environmental and energy policies abroad in the common interest of the Community and partner countries and regions 4
ENRTP Priority Themes 2007-2010
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1. Working upstream on MDG7: promoting environmental sustainability 2. Promoting implementation of EU initiatives and internationally agreed commitments 3. Improving expertise for integration and coherence 4. Strengthening environmental governance and EU leadership 5. Support for sustainable energy options in partner countries/regions
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ENRTP Priority Actions in climate change
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• Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund (GEEREF) • Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) • Carbon capture and storage (CCS) • Targeted actions •
Joint Management Actions with international organisations (e.g. UNEP, World Bank)
• Call for Proposals
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GEEREF – addressing barriers to private investment in developing countries
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• Energy efficiency and renewable energy projects face difficulties in raising commercial funding. Lack of risk capital in developing countries and transition economies. • Long pay-back periods on clean technology are an obstacle to investors. This is even more the case in regions that are considered to be high-risk. • Small projects can have higher administrative and transaction costs. Consequently international financial institutions tend not to provide equity finance for projects below 10 million Euros. 7
Overcoming barriers to private investment in developing countries
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• Attract private investors by using public money to protect them against the risks. Innovative public-private partnership - neither lend nor grant funds, but equity finance. • Equity finance via investment structures (mainly fund of fund) to regional energy efficiency and renewable energy projects and initiatives. • Public-private initiative: subordination of public funding; return preference (up to 10% p.a.) for private funding, but subordination on policy to institutions. • Technical Support: EUR 5m for technical assistance (training, research, start-up, promotion of good governance…) managed by the European Investment Fund on behalf of the Commission. 8
Where will GEEREF invest?
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• Estimated investment in approx. 15 “Regional Funds” with projects in developing countries with a priority to meeting the needs in sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. • Commercial finance structures, which provide equity finance to small and medium sized regional energy efficiency and renewable energy projects, Sustainable development strategy, Market-based approach with ethical safeguards • Combining efficiently financial viability with sustainable social and environmental returns.
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GEEREF Decision Making Process
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• Target levels for approved projects (quantitative and qualitative input data) Development
Balance Financial Performance
Energy Efficiency
Environment
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What will GEEREF fund?
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•A Fund-of-Funds investor: 70% funds, 30% projects For example: • Biomass, wind, hydro, solar, geothermal • Utility based and distributed generation, etc • Small and medium sized projects and initiatives: EUR 10m with preference on EUR 1m • Energy efficiency • Nuclear power excluded 11
Global Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Fund
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Structure: Commercial Elements European Commission €80 M
Advisor/Manager: EIF/EIB
Institutional Investors: DE €24 M NO €9 M
GEEREF
Investments in Private Equity/Venture Capital Funds
Emerging Markets Ren./Sust. Energy Funds
Ren/Sust Energy Projects & SMEs
Emerging Markets Ren./Sust. Energy Funds
Ren/Sust Energy Projects & SMEs
Private Investors (private banks)
Established Intl Infrastructure Funds
Co-investments with selected Funds
Emerging Markets Ren./Sust. Energy Funds
Ren/Sust Energy Projects & SMEs
Ren/Sust Energy Projects & SMEs
Ren/Sust Energy Projects & SMEs 12
Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA)
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– Scope & Objectives Two pillars: • Deepen policy dialogue between the EU and developing countries, in particular the LDCs and SIDS • Increase financial cooperation in climate change area
Objective: the Alliance will help poor developing countries most vulnerable to climate change: o
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adapting to the effects of climate change, in support of the achievement of the MDGs, participating in the global mitigation effort, where this benefits poverty reduction and sustainable development.
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GCCA -
Implementation structure
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GCCA contributions
Support Facility
EC 60M€ Sweden 4.5M€ Czech Rep. 0.2M€ + Others
Selection criteria for countries
3M€ Activities in pilot countries: Capacity building:
Assistance to gov:
- seminars,
- CC integration in policies
- conferences,
- preparation of financial
- experts mostly at regional level
Vanuatu, Maldives, Tanzania, Cambodia (12.5M€) from 2008 BS possible?
proposals for in-country
Preferred aid modality:
activities; preferably in
YES: General BS or SBS in CC sensitive areas, concentrating on water, agriculture, forest, CDM and DDR
BS modality
NO: Projects linked to NAPA's & concentrating on water, agriculture, forest, CDM, DDR 14
Carbon capture & storage (CCS) Why cooperate with third countries?
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• Europe alone cannot solve the problem (emissions of emerging economies) • Cooperation on clean technologies may help politically to get a deal on post-2012 • Demonstration in Europe and abroad can create opportunities for European companies • Commitments under UNFCCC and bilateral relations (ie 2005 EU-China Summit on Near Zero Emissions Coal) as well as in both CC & Energy packages 15
EU-China Cooperation on Near Zero Emissions Coal (NZEC)
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• EU-China Summit (Sept 2005) Declaration on Climate Change & Energy: “
We will aim to achieve the following co-operation goals by 2020: To develop and demonstrate in China and the EU advanced, near-zero emissions coal technology through carbon capture and storage ”
• Phase I: • Phase II (2009-2011) • Phase III (2011-?)
R&D: 3 projects funded by EC & UK Feasibility and design Construction and operation 16
A Special Purpose Vehicle
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• Special Purpose Vehicle to combine private and public financing • Possible revenue streams: o Carbon credits o Enhanced oil recovery • Advantages of relative speed, ability to blend funds, usable structure already exists • Flexibility of design: opportunity for “financial engineering” to achieve certain financial/policy outcomes • Risk-sharing – public money acts as a buffer, meaning that investment is more attractive for private investors • Private investors can engage at any of several levels (eg in the SICAV itself or in the company that the SICAV invests in) • Precise modalities of SPV to be elaborated under 17 ENRTP
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Environment and sustainable management of natural resources, including energy Launched in the beginning of 2008 RECEIVED
1037 Concept Notes 332 CN (about 35%) on climate change
FINANCED by European Commission
46 projects
200 Full Application Form
Incl. climate change projects
€1.5 billion
€ 64.5 Million
(Project size €500,000 - € 4 million) 18
Global climate change projects
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2007-2008 Call • Local Governments’ mobilisation and backing for the development and implementation of a global and comprehensive post-2012 climate change agreement • The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) o Developing World Media Capacity Building on the Post 2012 Climate Change Negotiations and the CDM • Capacity Development for Adaptation to Climate Change & GHG Mitigation in Non Annex I Countries o To improve the ability of developing countries to develop adaptation measures and plan mitigation strategies o EC is helping these three projects find synergies 19
AFTER THE EVALUATION PROCESS…?
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• Despite their high scores, some projects didn’t obtain an EC grant due to budget limitations. • To build more effective and inclusive partnerships, • To share efforts made by the Commission in selecting the Projects, EuropeAid organised…
86 PROJECTS FIT FOR FUNDING! presented at the AUCTION FLOOR Conference!
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AUCTION FLOOR: HOW DOES IT WORK?
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1. Booklet 5 SUB-THEMES - Biodiversity - Climate changes - Desertification - Forests - Sustainable Energy
23 projects 7 projects 14 projects 36 projects 6 projects http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/auctionfloor
2. Match-making conference held on 13 March in Brussels
300 participants: - Member States - Regions - Foundations - Private sector - 86 Project managers - Media 21
The Position of the Commission
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• The EU will contribute its fair share of the global additional financial effort. • For mitigation, the bulk of this would come through the international carbon market linked to the EU's ambitious mitigation targets. The more ambitious the Copenhagen agreement, the larger the potential flows. • Most adaptation support in the most vulnerable countries such as the Least Developed Countries and the Small Island Developing States will have to be international public financial support. • Both private and public financial support will be needed. The private sector will be the main source for mitigation, but without public support, developing countries may be unable to create the institutional capacity and policy frameworks. 22