A Specialized Guarantee Facility for Industrial Decarbonization: The Case for a Dedicated, Pooled Risk-Sharing Instrument
This blog was originally published on Illuminem, and has been co-authored with Rhian-Mari Thomas. She is the CEO...
This blog was originally published on Illuminem, and has been co-authored with Rhian-Mari Thomas. She is the CEO...



Lisa Sachs and 2 more
Financing Climate & Sustainable Development / Events
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Date: Jun 30, 2026
Location: Online
Financing Climate & Sustainable Development / Report
Diagnosing how the sovereign ceiling functions as a simplifying shortcut that can obscure meaningful differences across borrowers, and proposing an alternative credit rating approach based on disaggregating sovereign risk into specific transmission channels.

Igor Zelezetskii and 5 more
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