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Carbon Finance at the World Bank

The World Bank was a pioneer in the carbon market. The Bank’s operational engagement in carbon finance started with the establishment of the $180 million Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF) in 1999. This was rapidly followed by the establishment of other funds and facilities as the Kyoto Protocol was ratified. Today, the World Bank manages just over $2 billion across 10 carbon funds and facilities. Sixteen governments and 65 private companies from various sectors have made financial contributions to these funds.

The funds and facilities include the PCF; the Community Development Carbon Fund (CDCF), which extends c arbon finance to small poorer countries and communities; the BioCarbon Fund (BioCF), which applies carbon finance to forestry and land use projects; the Netherlands (Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) (*) Facilities; the Italian Carbon Fund; The Spanish Carbon Fund; the Danish Carbon Fund; the Umbrella Carbon Facility; and the Carbon Fund for Europe, launched in March 2007.

While the Bank’s initial role was to catalyze the global market for carbon emission reductions, carbon finance is now emerging into the mainstream of the Bank’s lending program. In December 2005, the Executive Directors endorsed the Bank’s approach for further engagement in carbon finance, focusing on three clear objectives – to:

Ensure that carbon finance contributes to sustainable development;
assist in building, sustaining, and expanding the international market for carbon emission reductions; and further strengthen the capacity of developing countries to benefit from the emerging market for emission reduction credits.

Operationally, the carbon finance program essentially supports the objectives of the second pillar of the Investment Framework for Clean Energy and Development, by providing incentives for transitioning to a low-carbon economy in the Bank’s client countries.

(*) The Clean Development Mechanism, (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) are flexible mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol that allow OECD countries to fulfill some of their greenhouse gas emission-reduction commitments through projects in the developing world (CDM) and countries with economies in transition (JI) .

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