Ruth Bookbinder

Dec 26, 2024 | asiatimes.com | Julia Martin-Ortega |Joshua Cohen |Ruth Bookbinder

To combat climate change and help nature to recover, a lot more investment is urgently needed. The UN’s State of Finance for Nature report claims that if the world is to meet climate, biodiversity and land degradation targets, it needs to invest an extra US$4.1 trillion by 2050. With most of the existing funding coming from public sources (US$133 billion), calls to close the “investment gap” are now focusing heavily on private investments, commonly referred to as green finance.

Dec 23, 2024 | theconversation.com | Ruth Bookbinder

To combat climate change and help nature to recover, a lot more investment is urgently needed. The UN’s State of Finance for Nature report claims that if the world is to meet climate, biodiversity and land degradation targets, it needs to invest an extra US$4.1 trillion (£3.2 trillion) by 2050. With most of the existing funding coming from public sources (US$133 billion), calls to close the “investment gap” are now focusing heavily on private investments, commonly referred to as green finance.

Nov 20, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Ruth Bookbinder

ABSTRACTProposals to reduce South Africa’s dependence on coal-generated electricity have repeatedly stalled despite growing internal and international pressure to decarbonise electricity generation. Where there is a growing body of scholarship that identifies barriers to an energy transition in the country, studies that explore how these barriers emerge and are perpetuated are comparatively limited.