With Hearts and Minds: Exploring the Impact Investing Marketplace and Related Strategising

Svendsen, Morten Penthin

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“…Whereas the literature has long stressed the need for bankable adaptation projects to be developed based on identified income streams, project markets, historical performance data, project preparation and end-user demand (ADB 2021). The findings accord with research conducted by Bisaro & Hinkel (2018) and Svendsen (2021), which likewise uncovered little evidence of institutional investment for adaptation and nature-based projects in coastal cities. Other studies have similarly concluded that mobilising new partnerships and financing for adaptation projects crucially depends on first resolving the complex governance and economic issues related to responsibility for funding, trade-offs, equity and the accrual of benefits at the urban level (Bisaro et al 2020).…”

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Stretching or conforming? Financing urban climate change adaptation in Copenhagen

Whittaker

Jespersen

2022

Buildings and Cities

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Cities worldwide are struggling to build resilience to the risks posed by climate change for their infrastructures, economies and quality of life. However, no city government has sufficient capacities to fund the adaptations required to ensure such resilience alone. Copenhagen's efforts to secure financing for adaptation and mitigation are investigated, focusing on its innovative arrangements for funding projects to protect against extreme rainfall and flooding. A mixed-methods approach explores how municipal actors and investors accessed finance for supporting transition to a climate-adapted city. Mobilising concepts from the multilevel perspective to analyse the governance and market conditions that facilitate or impede such financing, this paper contributes to sustainable transition theory and the assessment of different funding approaches. The case study confirms the comprehensiveness and effective implementation of the city's plans, especially its innovative financing product for adaptation to urban flooding. However, this approach has knock-on effects for tackling other climate hazards, partnerships and investment urgency. Although extreme rainfall events in 2011-13 opened a valuable 'window of opportunity' for change at the system landscape level, catalysing a radical shift in government policy and investment, this disruption did not elicit a commensurate response from the city's finance sector. PRACTICE RELEVANCESeveral challenges exist for municipalities and investors when financing urban adaptation. Innovation is needed not only in technology but also in approaches to financing and investment. A key strength of Copenhagen's adaptation approach lies in its innovative financing arrangements for funding an effective response to the risks of extreme rainfall, i.e. combining measures to protect against urban flooding with improvements in the urban public realm. A sustainable transition model can help guide cities in planning and funding adaptation to climate change. Recommendations include equal prioritisation by all actors of climate adaptation and mitigation; the removal of *Author affiliations can be found in the back matter of this article 975 Whittaker and Jespersen Buildings and Cities

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