However, the accounting and solvency regulations are not helping and may even be discouraging them from acting in their long-term capacity. The insurers have shelved plans to invest in the equity part of the joint venture because of the perceived high capital charge. See ‘Solvency II hampers attractive infrastructure investments’, NRPN Nordic Region Pensions and Investment News Oct/ Nov 2011. Financial innovations, such as effective targeted risk transfer techniques to enhance credit quality of projects, will become more important (see later section).53 Further analysis is required into the potential impacts of such international regulations on infrastructure in general and green projects in particular.