Covid-19 – implications under French Law and guidelines for future project finance transactions

Typically, a Concession Agreement or a PPA will provide for Force Majeure relief to extend beyond the Concession Agreement/PPA to other project agreements that the Concession Agreement/PPA parties are also party to, including the EPC contracts or the O&M agreements. For example, where the occurrence of a Force Majeure event prevents the EPC contractor from building the power plant, the project company may be able to seek relief from its contractual obligation under the Concession Agreement/PPA.

Financing PPP Projects with PVR Contracts: Theory and Evidence from the UK and Chile

Risk allocation is an essential component of a successful public-private partnership contract. For many of these projects, demand risk is large and mostly exogenous, which motivates considering contract designs that do not force the concessionaire to bear risk it cannot manage. In this paper we study present-valueof-revenue (PVR) contracts, which achieve this objective. Under a PVR contract, the regulator sets the discount rate and tariff schedule and frms compete on the present value of tariff revenue.

Recovery Bonds: Innovative Sovereign Bond Structures for Financing a Sustainable Recovery

Both sovereign green bonds and FFSR bonds offer a promising framework to deliver sustainable recovery finance. There are significant opportunities for investment in key sectors like renewable energy, clean water supply, and waste management, as well as the potential to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. These sectors are particularly important to a post-COVID-19 economic recovery and will require trillions of dollars of investment over the coming decades.

State of Blended Finance 2022: Climate Edition

In PART I of the report, blended finance data and insights provide a market overview with a look back to last year’s report and an assessment of the current challenges, macroeconomic impacts, and exogenous shocks that have equally shaped the broader climate finance market and the climate-related blended finance market. This section reviews recent downturns in sustainable investment and points at opportunities where blended finance can serve as an active mechanism to respond to the global challenges that adversely impact funding flows.

Value Capture Finance Policy Framework

The VCF Policy Framework has been developed as an essential document to enlighten States and Union Territories of the country with the concepts and the key idea behind introducing VCF mechanisms at the local level to enhance financial strength and thereby provide better infrastructure. In addition to the policy framework, a Guidance Note on one of the VCF tools – Impact Fees – has also been prepared to highlight the practical aspects of successfully implementing impact fees.

World Bank on Trust funds and Partnership Programs

The Bank works with a growing array of development partners, both traditional and non-traditional, formal and informal, to help meet our shared goals. From the ongoing partnership with our sovereign donors, through engagement with foundations and civil society, to an increasing focus on leveraging private capital, the Bank recognizes how transformative partnership can be when new ideas, perspectives and experiences are combined with the necessary financial resources.

Development partners work with the Bank through trust funds:

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.