New Research: A Tale of Two Solar Technologies
JFI’s Financing the Energy Transition researcher Sina Sinai has released the fourth memo in a series about the financing and bankability of green technologies in the United States. This paper examines how tariff policy has affected US manufacture of solar panels.
Protective tariffs enacted to insulate domestic manufacturers from market forces will inevitably come at greater cost than explicit investment and subsidy policies in the shorter term as capacity continues to scale up and the domestic industry structure adjusts.
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In-person at the Century Foundation in Manhattan at 6pm.
JFI and CVF-V20 Advance Proposal for Multi-Sovereign Investment Fund at World Bank & IMF Annual Meetings
A press release from JFI's Social Wealth initiative.
JFI at the Indonesia Sustainability Forum in Jakarta
JFI Fellow Madeline Craig-Scheckman attended to build out her research series, Minerals-Based Industrial Policies in a Fragmenting World.