Website: Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors

This analysis of 270 climate and energy policies at the regional, state and national level ranks countries and regions on how desirable investments in those regions' companies may be.

The chart below shows which countries are determined to be at lower risk, which are at moderate risk, and which is at the highest risk. The regions are then ranked based on their attractiveness to investors.

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The report's authors argue that more investment in these technologies is needed to speed the impact of climate-reduction strategies, and that governments must create policies that encourage such investment. The report lays out five principles that make climate policies successful:

• Be Transparent, Long-term and exhibit Certainty through consistent, secure and predictable, payment mechanisms ("TLC");
• Introduce incentives that decrease over time as technologies move towards market competitiveness;
• Eliminate non-economic barriers (grid access, administrative obstacles, lack of information, social acceptance);
• Provide fair and open access to distribution channels (e.g. transmission grid);
• Be enforceable.

The executive summary of the report is available for download from ClimateBiz.com; the full report from Deutsche Bank's Climate Change Advisors, as well as all the group's research, is available online at DBCCA.com.