Financing Energy Transformation

Spatial Informatics Group is actively participating in the Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS) Global Partnership. Scott Muller of SIG co-chairs the Working Group on Sub-national Integration and is working in Latin America. Latin America’s urban areas are physically expanding at a rate three times faster than urban population growth. And while the revolutionary demand for infrastructure is a low carbon development opportunity— Financing Mechanisms for unlocking equitable rapid transformation (discontinuous change) remain a challenge. Indeed, the design and performance of the new urban world will define the success or failure of the global path to stay below 2ºC change. Download the full report LEDS GP Case Study, Lima, published in January, 2015 About LEDS: “The Low Emissions Development Strategies (LEDS) Global Partnership“.