Options for Increased Private Sector Participation in Resilience Investment : Focus on Agriculture
The presence of a revenue stream and a commercial return are an absolute prerequisite for investment for the private sector. However, often adaptation benefits or the value added (resilience) of adaptation investment are difficult to quantify in fi...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/969921521805628254/Options-for-increased-private-sector-participation-in-resilience-investment-focus-on-agriculture http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29612 |
| Summary: | The presence of a revenue stream and a
commercial return are an absolute prerequisite for
investment for the private sector. However, often adaptation
benefits or the value added (resilience) of adaptation
investment are difficult to quantify in financial terms.
There is no accepted methodology to price the adaptation
feature of an investment, that is to quantify whenan
investment has successfully adapted to climate change. While
the risks from extreme weatherand climate change are clearly
recognizable, and many investors see these risks in the
present ornear term, uncertainty about the precise nature,
timing and severity of climate impacts makes the return on
investment of adaptation projects difficult to measure. In
many cases adaptation is embedded into project design and
engineering. The fact that the adaptation component is often
not able to be separated, or treated as an add-on feature,
has consequences for fund raising and project financing.
Particularly for infrastructure projects, the difficulty in
ring-fencing adaptation components, and the uncertainty
around the time and magnitude of climate impacts, make it
difficult to charge separate/properly priced tariffs. These
difficulties are compounded in emerging and developing
economies (EMDEs), where users’ ability to pay is limited.
Blended finance solutions are used to make projects bankable
by closing viability gaps. Blended finance consists in the
complementary use of concessional (grants or low interest
instruments) and non-concessional financing from public and
private sources to make projects financially viable and/or
financially sustainable. Applying this approach to climate
finance allows leveraging of limited public funding,
enhances the overall effectiveness of aid, and potentially
triggers an increase in private investment once the
long-term viability of a market is demonstrated. This report
analyzes the potential and need for blended finance
solutions in four economic sectors - water, agriculture,
transport, and energy. For each economic sector, two broad
classes of investment, infrastructure and value chains, are
discussed. Investing in infrastructure or in value chains
(that is, the range of goods and services that link the
producer to the customers or end-consumer) requires
different competencies, investment processes, project
selection criteria, and attracts different classes of
investors. Each investment theme is assessed for its
resilience relevance and potential for commercial returns.
An in-depth analysis of financing needs and potential
blended finance solutions for resilience investment in the
agriculture sector is presented, because of the economic
relevance of agriculture in EMDEs, and its exposure to
climate and natural hazards. |
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