although governments are committing increasing amounts to the financing of ee projects the ee investment gap is still tremendous they also act as first party financier in cases where managers have difficulties finding capital for a project for instance the ebro data encompasses leveraged private money in addition of the money invested by the ebrd alone the world bank by contrast does not take into account leveraged money of private investors however it tends to consider renewable and ee investments together although the public sector cannot be expected to face the challenge alone the united nations framework convention on climate change unfccc estimates that of the needed investments should come from the private sector the current commitment level of public financial institutions still falls short of triggering adequate privatesector financing