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
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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.

Event
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.
News
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.
Resource
3rd May 2017
Planning for NDC implementation - Quick start guide and reference manual CDKN and Ricardo Energy and Environment have developed a quick start guide and reference manual to support Less Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States plan for implementing their national climate commitments - the NDCs - in English and French.
Feature
20th April 2017
How can Nepal finance climate action? Dr. Divas B. Basnyat of Nepal Development Research Institute (NDRI (divas@ndri,org.np) writes on the challenges and opportunities for accessing climate finance in Nepal. This blog is based on the project “Support for Strengthening Climate Finance Activities in Nepal” funded by CDKN and implemented by NDRI in partnership with Prakiti Resource Center (PRC).
Feature
17th April 2017
Indonesia’s climate-smart motors Syed Abbas Hussain describes the importance of energy efficiency in Indonesia’s economy and describes how CDKN-supported initiatives have laid the groundwork for cost savings and avoiding greenhouse gas emissions.
Feature
10th April 2017
Climate finance and poverty reduction - the need for synergy Mariella Di Ciommo says that international climate finance flows could be designed a lot more effectively, to tackle poverty as well as climate change.
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Project
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Enhancing Direct Access to Adaptation Funding in Kenya

This project is designed to enhance Kenya’s prospects to access international sources of finance, by offering technical support to the Government of Kenya to develop an investment-grade adaptation project pipeline and proposals, a country-driven approach with a long-term programmatic view.

Resource
16th March 2017
Outlook : Nepal Special Edition Around three quarters of Nepal’s population is dependent on agriculture, which is highly climate sensitive and increasingly at risk from climate change impacts. With CDKN's support, the Nepalese Government has been trialing ways to boost climate resilience in the agriculture, irrigation and hydropower sectors.
Resource
10th March 2017
Outlook : Pakistan Special Edition Pakistan is in the midst of high economic growth and major industrial expansion, but it is also highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This special outlook newsletter rounds up CDKN's programme to help set Pakistan on a more climate compatible footing.
Resource
27th February 2017
Outlook: Bangladesh Special Edition CDKN's Bangladesh programme has been contributing to deeper understanding of climate-related loss and damage in the country and to the knowledge base on how Bangladeshi businesses can mobilise resources to address climate change effectively. Read more in this 'Climate and Development Outlook: Bangladesh Special Edition'.
Resource
20th February 2017
OUTLOOK: Indonesia Special Edition Indonesia is experiencing an economic transformation - but at an environmental cost. The government recognises that greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation don't have to accompany economic growth, and CDKN has played a part in facilitating debates about a more 'climate compatible development'.