That agreed $300 billion goal, however, is not expected to come from developed country governments but “a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral”. In other words, governments in the Global North are tasked with ”mobilising” or “catalysing” private sector investment, a process which often entails “de-risking” private investment in climate adaptation or mitigation initiatives by providing various forms of guarantee, such as subsidising returns to private investors via the public purse
Arts for the 21st Century
Mr. Chancellor, Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, I feel very much at home here. Maybe later I will be able to tell you in personal terms why I do, but I wish to say that since the federation has gone—and federations come and they go and we hope they will come again—I have always referred to myself as a West Indian, a member of that community which produced, among others, George Lamming…
