Proposals to buy up loans to renewable energy projects in the developing world could allow billions of dollars of private sector cash to flood the sector.
The plan, which is being pioneered by the IADB, would involve getting taxpayer-funded development banks to buy existing loans to green projects in poor countries.
Such loans are relatively low risk because they are already performing but because they're in developing countries, mainstream private sector investors are often forbidden from touching them.
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