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 # Transitioning to a Clean Energy Future Will Require Lots of Private Capital, but How Do We Get There?

 

##### By Victor A. Rojas

 

 

 Mar 25, 2014 6:25 PM ET

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The past two decades have seen a tremendous growth in our understanding of the climate change imperative and in the enormity of the challenge that confronts us. It has become clear that meeting climate change mitigation objectives will require the aggressive deployment of clean energy technologies, substantial amounts of capital, and creative methods of engaging that capital around these activities.

Transitioning to a low-carbon economy costs money (and lots of it). In fact, the International Energy Agency has [estimated](http://www.ief.org/_resources/files/events/12th-ief-ministerial-cancun-mexico/iea-background-paper.pdf) that $10.5 trillion will be required between 2010 and 2030 to fund this transition worldwide. Given the continuing challenges confronting global economies, the bulk of the capital needed to transition to this clean energy future will, by necessity, be private capital. As a result, creative financing solutions are essential to engaging and unleashing private, institutional capital, and accelerating the flow of those funds toward clean energy projects.

But the question of how to most effectively unlock the enormous amounts of capital necessary to pay for our transition to a low-carbon economy still remains.

[Read More on EDF Energy Exchange Blog »](http://blogs.edf.org/energyexchange/2014/03/25/transitioning-to-a-clean-energy-future-will-require-lots-of-private-capital-but-how-do-we-get-there/?utm_source=3bl&utm_medium=distro&utm_campaign=3bl)



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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