Finance and climate change
Financial options for climate action
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- Comprehensive report detailing multi-sector trade opportunities and enabling conditions in the transition to a green economy
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
- Prepared by the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report is a key component of the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP). The aim of GE-TOP is to identify opportu...
- Evaluation of quantitative methodologies for assessing greenhouse gas reductions from cookstove projects
- C. Lee; C. Chandler; M. Lazarus; F. X. Johnson / Stockholm Environment Institute, 2013
- With an estimated 2.6 billion people relying on traditional biomass for cooking and heating, improved efficiency of cookstoves could provide greenhouse gas emission reductions in excess of one billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalent...
- Developing financeable NAMAs: a practitioner’s guide
- D. Sawyer / International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2013
- Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) are fast becoming the climate finance vehicle of choice to help developing countries transition to low carbon, climate resilient futures. Developing countries, their development partne...
- The benefits of gender balance in climate change mitigation investments and sustainable energy initiatives
- G. Karlsson / ENERGIA: International Network on Gender & Sustainable Energy, 2012
- Cleaner fuels, improved efficiency and adoption of renewable energy technologies offer important possibilities for low carbon economic development and reductions in overall greenhouse gas emissions. This paper highlights that these po...
- Growing green: the economic benefits of climate action
- U. Deichmann / World Bank, 2013
- The economic impacts of climate change already threaten development gains; unchecked emissions will come at rising economic cost and increasing risk to individuals. This report argues that there is a clear case for all economies to mo...
- Moving towards a common approach on green growth indicators
- Green Growth Knowledge Platform, 2013
- Greening growth (GG) and moving towards a greener economy (GE) is complex and multidimensional. It entails: pricing externalities and valuing natural assets for the long-run services they provide and pricing externalities; innovation ...
- Neoclassical realism and international climate change politics: moral imperative and political constraint in international climate finance
- M. Purdon / Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
- This article presents a neoclassical realist theory of climate change politics that challenges the idea that cooperation on climate change is compelled alone by shared norms and interests emanating from the international level and que...
- Unburnable carbon 2013: wasted capital and stranded assets
- London School of Economics, 2013
- According to this report, despite fossil fuel reserves already far exceeding the carbon budget to avoid global warming of more than two degrees Celsius, US$674 billion was spent in 2012 finding and developing new potentially stranded ...
- Infrastructure and climate change: impacts and adaptations for the Zambezi River Valley
- P. S. Chinowsky / United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2013
- The African Development Bank has called for US$40 billion per year over the coming decades to be provided to African countries to address development issues directly related to climate change. This study addresses a key component of t...
- Least developed, most vulnerable: have climate finance promises been fulfilled for the LDCs?
- D. Ciplet / European Capacity Building Initiative, 2013
- As part of the Copenhagen Accord, wealthy nations pledged to help developing countries transition to a low carbon economy and to deal with the impacts of climate change. This paper assess whether wealthy nations transparently contribu...
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