on the other hand it can also address the offer side of the problem by increasing capital availability and adequacy for private sector projects dealing with green growth and climate action eg smallscale adaptationrelated projects innovative green growth projects through direct financing eg grants challenge funds risk sharing mechanisms which improve the riskreturn profile of investments eg guarantees provision of medium to longterm finance to cover the longer payback of relatively new green technologies etc the global average is computed by taking a simple average of countrylevel point estimates for each economy only the latest available year of survey data is used in this computation