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Five reasons Development Banks hold the key to renewable energy investment boom

Jocelyn Timperley
clock 18 April 2016 •
Five reasons Development Banks hold the key to renewable energy investment boom

New Climate Economy report sets out how Multilateral Development Banks have a crucial role to play in mobilising clean energy investment

The New Climate Economy (NCE) group has this month published a major new report detailing the crucial role development banks need to play in ramping up clean energy investment in developing countries....

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