Climate Change Finance
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At present there are 18 emission trading schemes (ETS) operating in the world. At the COP21 in Paris a clear path for climate and energy policies has been outlined over the coming decades: states have committed themselves to reach zero... more
Este documento desarrolla propuestas de política para el financiamiento ambiental y climático de proyectos a nivel de los Gobiernos Regionales.
This article consists of a critical review of the conceptual scholarship on the gov-ernance of climate finance and includes an overview of the institutional arrangements and governance logics that provide climate finance. New... more
The discourse on vulnerability to climate change presents many complexities. Among these are the constant tension between policy makers and academics. This paper unpacks these complexities in order to analyze how Small Island Developing... more
This document is a guidance for practitioners seeking to design climate change interventions with greater potential to exert transformational change (TrC). It has a series of guiding sheets with recommendations on how to introduce... more
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is a financing mechanism under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Established in 2011, it aims to make a significant and ambitious contribution towards internationally agreed... more
AUSTRALIA, PAKISTAN AND UNITED STATES CLIMATE JUSTICE, CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCE
Throughout the development sector there has been a pronounced call for new funding mechanisms to address the climate crisis, and much of this is focused on attracting private sources of capital to fund ‘bankable’ projects in... more
Climate finance refers to all the funding on a national and international level that pertains to financing projects that have to do with adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. Briefly discussed below are some of the... more
REDD+ was conceived as a system of incentives for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation. While this could include many different types of interventions to reduce deforestation and degradation, a consensus has emerged that... more
Abstract: When assessing the more pressing challenges of the Paris Agreement, four aspects become relevant. First, the lack of reliable sources and resources of climate finances–related information. Second, only developed countries’... more
Country ownership echoes from the aid effectiveness agenda in climate finance, becoming a means to ensure that (1) projects are aligned with national climate policies and strategies, (2) national systems are used to increase recipients’... more
This study investigated the relationship of inflation targeting monetary policy and economic growth in Ghana. Inflation rate was measured by conditional variance generated by fitting an empirical Generalized Autoregressive Conditional... more
Resumen: Estudiamos cuatro dispositivos biopolíticos relacionados con Centroamérica y el cambio climático: modelos climatológicos; indicadores de vulnerabilidad ambiental; criterios para asignar los microcréditos de los fondos verdes para... more
With private contributions becoming increasingly pivotal to global climate finance, it is evident that scaling up and channeling private capital is crucial in meeting the goal of achieving the Paris Agreement and limiting global warming... more
“The challenges of accessing Climate Finance for Small Island Developing States – a case study of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada” has been realized with support of the GIZ component of the ICCAS (Integrated Climate Change... more
The topic of sustainable finance is of growing interest for political scientists as we witness a series of new policy initiatives, regulations, and campaigns at global, supranational, and national levels. This paper aims to contribute to... more
ADAPTATION FINANCE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME
Outcomes of literature review and interview with key stakeholders on internal procedures for achieving transparency in institutional decision-making at GCF and GEF
Outcomes of literature review and interview with key stakeholders on internal procedures for achieving transparency in institutional decision-making at GCF and GEF
De nombreux scientifiques, dont James Hansen, ont suggéré que l’ouragan Harvey – qui a durement frappé la ville américaine de Houston fin août – avait été alimenté, du moins en partie, par le réchauffement climatique. De tels événements... more
Throughout the development sector there has been a pronounced call for new funding mechanisms to address the climate crisis, and much of this is focused on attracting private sources of capital to fund ‘bankable’ projects in... more
Country ownership echoes from the aid effectiveness agenda in climate finance, becoming a means to ensure that (1) projects are aligned with national climate policies and strategies, (2) national systems are used to increase recipients'... more
This third and final primer – Climate Finance and Bolivia – looks at the very thorny issue of who should and who can pay for climate mitigation and adaptation, the injustices of the proposals on the table, and the possibilities for... more