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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19th April 2013
Infrastructure and climate change: impacts and adaptations for the Zambezi River Valley Infrastructure and climate change: impacts and adaptations for the Zambezi River Valley
Feature
15th April 2013
How can Pakistan best leverage climate finance? As part of a CDKN project supporting the Government of Pakistan, John Ward and Philip Gradwell from Vivid Economics, outline the key considerations and options for the country’s future climate finance architecture.
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12th April 2013
CDKN East Africa Climate Finance Workshop – Executive Summary Here we present the Executive Summary of a CDKN workshop on climate finance in East Africa at the Friendship Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia over 25-26 March 2013.
Feature
9th April 2013
Learning lessons in climate financing from Africa As a follow-up to yesterday’s report from Ethiopia on climate-compatible development, Louise Brown, Research Analyst with the World Resources Institute, relates her experiences at CDKN’s workshop on climate finance in East Africa
News
27th March 2013
Board members sketch out an operational framework for the Green Climate Fund After a week of heated debates in Berlin, the Green Climate Fund board reached an important agreement on moving forward with the fund’s Business Model Framework. Annelieke Douma and Anouk Franck, of Both ENDS, watched the drama unfold.
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Project : Exploring local access to the Green Climate Fund (GCF)

The objective of this project is to ensure that the Green Climate Fund is directly accessible to sub-national stakeholders, including local authorities, civil society organisations and knowledge institutions, in order for them to design and implement sustainable adaptation strategies.

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14th March 2013
Paradigm shift in climate finance? Annelieke Douma and Anouk Franck of Both ENDS, provide an NGO perspective on key debates in the Green Climate Fund.
News
11th March 2013
CDKN Asia publishes new country and regional snapshots 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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8th March 2013
An introduction to the CFAS recommended reading Sven Harmeling of Germanwatch introduces the Climate Finance Advisory Service’s ‘Recommended reading guide’ to topical issues in climate finance, and invites readers to contribute their ideas.
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8th March 2013
Climate finance advisory service - policy briefs As part of it's service, CFAS will be producing a series of policy briefs on any topics that are large or complex enough to warrant a detailed review.
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8th March 2013
POLICY BRIEF: Towards the Fifth Review of the UNFCCC’s Financial Mechanism CDKN's new policy brief, and the first from the Climate Finance Advisory Service, concerns the Fifth Review of the UNFCCC's Financial Mechanism and is targeted at the climate finance community.
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6th March 2013
Tracking climate finance Climate finance advisory service recommended reading on tracking climate finance