Within just a few months of the launch of the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), our rapid response service fast-tracked a new project for the African Development Bank (AfDB) to provide urgent technical support on climate finance for the continent.
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Uganda has lost more than two million hectares of forest since 1990, mostly converted to farmland by a growing population of smallholders. Carbon finance through the REDD programme is often presented as one way to arrest this destruction, but only if …
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This chapter analyses how climate change and its politics have been subject to a market’s logic that is ‘increasingly hegemonic’ providing …
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The case for scaling up mitigation efforts is urgent and has been made repeatedly in the last few years – heavy investment is needed in zero and …
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This paper examines the role that the CDM has played in promoting renewable energy development in China in order to assess how international carbon finance …
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