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• Investing in sustainable infrastructure is at the heart of all three tasks.
• owever, major obstacles in transforming investment opportunities into real investment demand and major difficulties in bringing forward the right kind and scale of finance at the right time are slowing progress.
• On the one hand, the window for making the right choices is uncomfortably narrow because of high upfront financing and since any technology built over the short- to medium-term will lock-in emission patterns for decades, all at a time when the carbon budget is shrinking.
• Tackling these impediments will require concerted and mutually reinforcing actions on four dimensions of policy and finance:

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