This document summarizes a presentation on scaling up and replicating effective climate finance interventions. The presentation covered: 1) Why focusing on scaling up and replication is important to mobilize more climate finance efficiently and encourage private climate investment. 2) Three key aspects that facilitate replication and scaling up: designing suitable institutional structures, demonstrating successful interventions, and enhancing enabling environments. 3) Initial insights from examples that have been replicated or scaled up, including the challenges of balanced provision between mitigation and adaptation, and bridging information gaps. The role of public sectors in disseminating information is highlighted.

1. Climate Change Expert Group www.oecd.org/env/cc/ccxg.htm
Takayoshi Kato, OECD
takayoshi.kato@oecd.org
Based on the discussion paper
“Scaling up and replicating effective climate finance interventions”
by Takayoshi Kato, Jane Ellis, Pieter Pauw and Randy Caruso
Scale-up and replication
-Initial insights from experience-
CCXG Global Forum
18 March 2014

2. 2 Climate Change Expert Group
Presentation Outline
Why focus on scaling-up and
replication?
Three aspects to facilitate
replication and scaling-up
Initial insights from the
research
Discussion questions

3. 3 Climate Change Expert Group
Why focus on scale-up and
replication?
To mobilise further climate finance more efficiently
To encourage more private climate finance
 Building on accumulated knowledge and
experience from pilot activities;
 Private investors: reluctant to invest in too
innovative or unfamiliar activities in a short run; and
 Replication and scale-up can help to disseminate
innovation in the longer-term.

4. 4 Climate Change Expert Group
What does the paper look into?
Already Replicated or scaled up examples
Three aspects through which replication and
scaling-up have been facilitated
2. Demonstrating
successful
interventions
2. Demonstrating
successful
interventions
Replication
& scale-up
Replication
& scale-up
3. Enhancing
enabling
environments
3. Enhancing
enabling
environments
• In developing
countries
• Private and public
interventions
• Project,
programme or
fund level
• In developing
countries
• Private and public
interventions
• Project,
programme or
fund level
1. Designing
suitable institutional
structure
1. Designing
suitable institutional
structure

5. Initial insights
from replicated and scaled up interventions
• Balanced provision
• Institutional structure
• Information gap

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Difficulty in balanced provision
It is challenging to achieve…
i) balance between mitigation and adaptation
ii) geographical or sectoral balance
…although pursued under GCF.
In terms of mobilising more public - privateIn terms of mobilising more public - private
finance;finance;
• Often revenue generating
(thus, self-sustaining)
• Relatively long history
• Quantifying /attributing
specific benefits to specific
interventions challenging
• Early days in evaluating,
replicating or scaling up
MitigationMitigation AdaptationAdaptation

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Difficulty in balanced provision
Already scaled up/replicated activities tend to be;
MitigationMitigation
AdaptationAdaptation
Easier to demonstrate financial sustainability;
Yet, concentrated in certain technologies;
More scale-up/replication examples found in
middle income countries
Mainly No- or Low-regret adaptation;
In limited sectors (agriculture, insurance, food etc.) ;
Supported mostly by public finance in other sectors
(e.g. capacity development, disaster management)

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Bridging the information gap
Bridging the information gap is a key part of
replication and scaling up.
Public sector can play a key role in bridging the gap
Pilot
interventions
Replicated
or scaled-up
interventions
Tailor the designTailor the design
as neededas needed
Information;
•From monitoring and
evaluation for pilot
activities
•On local needs and
contexts
•On actors’ capacities

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Enabling environments and
institutional structure
Replication
and
scaling-up
Institutional structure ofInstitutional structure of
climate finance sourceclimate finance source
•Aims, decision-making,
scale, etc. can affect.
•Lessons learned from
sources of climate finance
(c.f. Next session for details)
Policies to enhancePolicies to enhance
enabling environmentsenabling environments
•Enabling
environments
•Absorbing capacities
•Co-ordination among
policies
Provision of
climate
finance
Basis for
replication
and scaling
up

10. 10 Climate Change Expert Group
Discussion questions
1. What are broad lessons from replication and
scaling-up experience to date?
2. To pursue the balanced provision, what would be
distinction in ways of mobilising climate finance
between mitigation and adaptation?