Towards Financial Close in Asset Recycling
Financial close, in most cases, indicates the commencement of the project period. Find details on how to prevent unacceptable delay between contract execution and financial close.
Guidelines for Implementing Asset Recycling Transactions (Download PDF version) - Now Available!
This document provides a set of step-by-step guidelines (the Guidelines) for relevant authorities to monetize existing assets by recycling them through long-term concession or lease arrangements. The development of the Guidelines has been informed by best practices gleaned from programs implemented by various countries.
The Guidelines are structured as follows:
Guidelines for Legal and Commercial Structuring Options
Find details of key components that the Relevant Authority should consider during their Project Preparation for Asset Recycling.
Table of Contents for Asset Recycling
Find a full outline to modules and sections found in this online guide.
I. GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTING ASSET RECYCLING
Asset Recycling Guide: Tools and References
Find Tables, Figures, Boxes and Tools in Asset Recycling below, or visit the PPPLRC Tools section for more.
Tables
Table 1: Models of Asset Recycling
Identifying the ‘greenium’: How UNDP is contributing to a more efficient cost of capital for developing countries
Global indebtedness has been growing in recent years and has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many developing countries are now facing the triple challenge of climate change, unsustainable debt burdens and COVID impacts. According to UNDP analysis: “Most vulnerable countries identified are not on the verge of a default, but rather risk facing a future of high economic and development costs of having to deal with large debt overhangs.
Emerging Market Green Bonds Report 2020: On the Road to Green Recovery
Key findings of this report:
The economic fallout caused by COVID-19 has greatly affected EMs, which will experience widely divergent recovery paths. Recovery measures could create significant opportunities for green and sustainability-related projects by prioritizing largescale public investment in green sectors and encouraging private sector investment through supportive policies.
The Role of National Development Banks in Catalyzing International Climate Finance
This publication discusses the unique role that National development banks (NDBs) could play in scaling up private financing for climate change mitigation projects through the intermediation of international and national public climate finance in their respective local credit markets and the conditions that would be needed for them to be most effective. It draws from experiences in international climate finance and best practices, processes, and products of NDBs within the Latin American and Caribbean region.
The Climate Finance Portal
This portal is a gateway to information on activities funded in developing countries to implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The Portal presents information on financial resources that have been made available to Non-Annex I Parties to the UNFCCC, and consists of the following four modules:
National Communications Module, Fast-start Finance Module, Funds Managed by the GEF Module and Adaptation Fund Module.