Themes: Climate finance

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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Project : National financing strategies for the implementation of low carbon development strategies

This project focuses on identifying opportunities for taking forward the National Financing Strategy (NFS) approach which helps to identify the key financing challenges and opportunities for implementation of Low Carbon Development Strategies in Chile, Colombia and Peru.

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Project : Making the case for attention to gender in climate mitigation projects

This project aims to address the gap between knowledge on gender and climate finance issues and demonstrate that attention to gender issues can strengthen the impact and effectiveness of climate finance, in particular mitigation finance

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7th August 2013
The world needs better funding for disaster risk reduction Jan Kellett, Senior Research Advisor at ODI, explains why disaster risk reduction efforts should be incorporated in core national policies, and considers progress made so far towards that goal
News
30th July 2013
CDKN Asia Country Snapshots published CDKN has released a set of country and regional snapshots featuring highlights of projects and achievements from Asia over the last quarter.
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16th July 2013
Securing safe water in sub-Saharan Africa An innovative programme currently being piloted in Uganda hopes to address the issue of contaminated water through financial incentives for the maintenance of safe water sources and adequate hygiene. If successful, it may provide a model to be used elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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15th July 2013
CFAS recommended reading 10 - Mobilising climate finance, a paper prepared at the request of G20 finance ministers (World Bank/IMF, 2011) Authors: World Bank Group, in close partnership with the IMF, the OECD and the RDBs.
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15th July 2013
CFAS recommended reading 9 - Climate finance post-Copenhagen Author: Tim Gore Date: May 2010
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15th July 2013
CFAS recommended reading 8 - Using EU ETS auctioning revenues for climate action, What is the appetite for earmarking within specific EU member states? (Germanwatch, 2013) Authors: Anja Esch (Germanwatch) with contributions from Ilona Jedrasik (Polish
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15th July 2013
CFAS recommended reading 8 - Climate Change, Technology And Intellectual Property Rights Author: Martin Khor, South Centre Date: June 2012
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15th July 2013
CFAS recommended reading 7- Catalysing Climate finance Author: Yannick Glemarec Date: 2011
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15th July 2013
CFAS recommended reading 6 - Mobilising climate investment – energy efficiency in Thailand (WRI, 2013) Authors: C.Polycarp, L.Brown, X.Fu-Bertaux. Date: April 2013
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15th July 2013
CFAS recommended reading 5 - Climate legislation study Authors: GLOBE International, 2013 Date: January 2013