Themes: Climate finance

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Themes: Climate finance

Developing countries need an estimated US$100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020 to adapt to climate change and help them shift toward low-carbon development paths. The funds are still only partly committed by governments and only partly available on private markets. Explore our projects, publications and blogs urging increased ambition, below.

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19th July 2017
REPORT: Road map - Actions for setting a green bond market in Colombia This Road Map is the second of a series of three documents prepared by E3–Economía, Ecología y Ética, and METRIX–Finanzas, in association with PwC UK and Climate Bonds Initiative, on the development of a green bond market in Colombia
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10th July 2017
REPORT: Global NDC Conference 2017: Full report now available The ‘Global NDC Conference 2017: integrated governance, finance and transparency for delivering climate goals’ took place in Berlin, Germany, from 2 – 6 May 2017. Download the full report from the Conference, featuring key messages and detailed information on Conference plenary and breakout sessions.
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7th July 2017
GUIDE: New markets for green bonds This new guide on the potential of green bonds draws on CDKN’s work to assess the potential for a successful green bond market in Colombia, and its broader climate finance work in other developing and emerging markets.
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7th July 2017
Outlook: Kenya Special Edition This Outlook newsletter explores how CDKN has supported climate compatible development in Kenya and features news of the new CDKN office in Kenya. It also discusses state-of-the-art climate science, mobilising finance for climate action and working with Kenya’s private sector.
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4th July 2017
REPORT: 10 propositions for success: Integrating international climate change commitments into national development planning This report examines how to support the successful integration of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) into national development planning. The paper develops a set of ten propositions towards securing this objective.
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30th June 2017
CDKN Annual Report 2017 Throughout 2017, we provided guidance on the implementation of NDCs, integrating climate actions into economic sectors and supported access to finance from both public and private sources. In our Annual Report, we highlight key results from these projects across Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.
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29th June 2017
REPORT: Green Climate Fund proposal toolkit 2017 This toolkit helps governments and project developers understand how to fulfill the Green Climate Fund’s requirements when developing a fully-fledged funding proposal. This manual, from CDKN and Acclimatise, sets out a step-by-step guide on how to prepare a project proposal for the GCF.
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27th June 2017
ESSENTIAL: Six tips for funding impactful research This CDKN Essentials outlines the main lessons we have learned about commissioning through a research call model. It is aimed at other funders of research who want to influence policy, planning and practice in climate compatible development and beyond.
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23rd June 2017
WORKING PAPER: Understanding ‘bankability’ and unlocking climate finance for climate compatible development This working paper focuses on understanding the concept of ‘bankability’ in support of the development of quality climate project proposals – to assist countries’ access to international climate finance.
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Colombia green bond market development

The purpose of this project was to support and prepare the Climate Finance Committee of the National Climate Change System to take a leadership role in the development of a green bonds market in Colombia and to prepare the ground for the issuance of demonstration green bonds in the country, and through this achieve the key first steps in implementing Colombia's national climate finance strategy.

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19th May 2017
'Innovate 4 Climate' Innovate 4 Climate in Barcelona, Spain supports dialogue among government, multilateral, business, banking and finance leaders to assess innovation in climate finance and policy - the LEDS GP Finance Working Group presents two events.
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4th May 2017
Switching on climate finance in Kenya This CDKN production looks at how Kenya is dealing with the challenge of generating more electricity - essential for growth and development - in climate compatible ways, and how the Government is mobilising finance from a range of sources to support this growth.