Amar Bhattacharya

Actual investment performance on key climate priorities in emerging markets and developing countries has stalled. This second report from Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance focuses on how to accelerate investment to deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement and implement a framework for action. Read more

This paper outlines how to realise a new model of sustainable, resilient and inclusive development for India. Read more

This report presents recommendations of the High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery and Growth, making the case and proposing actions for a big investment push for sustainable recovery and development in emerging markets and developing economies. Read more

This joint report from the Grantham Research Institute and Systemiq contends that the world has in its hands a new growth and development story driven by investment and innovation in green technology, boosted by artificial intelligence (AI) – and this is a much more attractive and inclusive story than the dirty and destructive paths followed in the past. Read more

This report of the Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance provides a framework for delivering finance for climate action, following the comprehensive approach embodied in the Paris Agreement and UNFCCC. Read more

This independent report sets out a rationale and possible design of a Climate Club, taking its point of departure from the June 2022 G7 Leaders’ Statement on Climate Club. Read more

This paper assesses the investment requirements for emerging markets and developing economies that are critical to their development and climate goals, arguing for a big-push investment programme to boost growth and meet global temperature targets. Read more

In this policy note Amar Bhattacharya and Nicholas Stern set out where we are on developed countries’ climate finance pledge to developing countries and where we must go now, presenting an action agenda with five elements. Read more

This report sets out core elements of an overarching and integrated strategy for recovery from the COVID-10 pandemic and growth, as a contribution to the preparation for the G7 Summit taking place in Carbis Bay, Cornwall (11 to 13 June 2021). Read more

Amar Bhattacharya, Richard Calland (Co-Chairs); Alina Averchenkova, Lorena Gonzalez, Leonardo Martinez-Diaz And Jerome Van Rooij. UN, 2020. External link to... Read more

The world is currently facing two crises of potentially immense proportions: COVID-19 and climate change. The response to both must be global, urgent and on great scale, argue the authors of this paper, as they outline the need for a sustainable recovery, and also the importance of China's role. Read more

Paper produced with The Brookings Institute and The New Climate Economy The U.N. Conference on Financing for Development at Addis... Read more

This article reports on new analysis which says that insufficient investment in developing countries is putting efforts to reduce global... Read more

This article discusses a new report which recommends increasing taxes on polluting activities and cutting subsidies to the fossil fuel... Read more

Remarks made by Nicholas Stern and Amar Bhattacharya at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris on 22 June 2023. The Summit was opened by French President Emmanuel Macron. Read more

The world will not avoid dangerous levels of climate change without a significant increase in investment. This commentary presents three priorities for climate finance for the achievement of the Paris targets and the protection of the world's most vulnerable communities. Read more

In this commentary piece for Raisina Dialogue the authors highlight the need to accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels and the critical role climate finance can play in facilitating the transition to net-zero. Read more

Strong recovery packages from COVID-19 that also lay the foundations for a sustainable transformation must remain at the top of Finance Ministers’ agendas, argue Amar Bhattacharya and Anika Heckwolf. Read more

In this opinion piece for the FT, Martin Wolf makes reference to a report by Amar Bhattacharya and Nicholas Stern... Read more

Finance ministers have a unique opportunity to design and implement comprehensive stimulus packages that can drive a strong recovery and build a better future: so argues a new paper prepared at the request of the co-chairs of the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action and summarised in this commentary. Read more

The COVID-19 pandemic has underlined the fragility and dangers of the old growth path. There can be no going back to the old normal, argue Amar Bhattacharya and Nicholas Stern. Read more