Nicolas Lewis, Richard Le Heron   This paper examines efforts to realise blue economy development aspirations in Kaikoura, New Zealand. Community groups and local business have turned to the Government’s Provincial Growth Fund to finance a green economy development vision...

Dr Sophie Webber1 1University Of Sydney   Over the last decade the World Bank has struggled to reinvent itself as its relevance and impact wanes. During this period, the Bank’s lending has been proportionally dwarfed by other kinds of financial...

Ms Pia Treichel1 1University of Melbourne, School of Geography, Parkville, Melbourne, Australia   The latest funding commitment in the international climate agreements is for $100bn/year to be delivered to developing countries for climate action by 2020, with the bulk of...

Dr Gareth Bryant1 1The University Of Sydney   This paper will contribute to the session by discussing the experience of the biggest global experiment in green finance to date: the European carbon market and its links with international offsetting schemes....