Disentangling Climate and Development Finance

Join the Belfer Center's Environment and Natural Resources Program for an upcoming webinar, where we will present and seek input on our research that examines the intersection of climate and development finance.

Although integrating climate and development goals may seem advantageous, there are critical trade-offs that suggest separating the two could yield more effective outcomes.

At a macro level, countries in the Global South have consistently advocated for climate finance to be additional to the Official Development Assistance (ODA) originally dedicated to development. This session will explore:

Institutional Perspectives: Examining the challenges that Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) face in balancing climate action with their core development mandates. We’ll address the incongruities between climate and development finance, especially regarding portfolio composition and organizational impacts.
Project-Level Solutions: Presenting our "Green Swap" concept, which seeks to disentangle climate and development impacts at the project level. By clearly separating these benefits, the Green Swap model aims to attract greater private sector investment specifically for climate finance.

Join Akash Deep, Henry Lee, and Wasim Tahir for a focused discussion on advancing climate and development finance in ways that maximize their overlapping but distinct impacts.