Finance and climate change
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- Effective measures to build resilience in Africa to adapt to climate change
- ( International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR) , 2011)
- This policy brief reflects that African countries are committed and investing funds to reduce risk to floods and droughts, albeit too little and still insufficiently in development sectors. These find...
- CDM Watch Policy Brief: A new look at loopholes
- ( A. Kollmuss / CDM Watch , 2011)
- Fulfilment of the pledges signed by 42 developed countries is estimated to reduce emissions by up to 4 billion tons (Gt) of CO2e in 2020. This is about one third of the estimated 12 Gt of CO2e emissio...
- Analysing the economic cost of climate change in Africa
- ( R. Clements / Christian Aid , 2009)
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The report aims to document and analyse the economic costs of climate change in Africa. It also seeks to contribute to a more detailed understanding of the costs involved for Africa in mitigating a...
- A review of compensated reductions (CR) and the Joint Research Centre proposal for reducing emissions from deforestation
- ( M. Skutsch;N. Bird;E. Trines / Science Direct , 2007)
- Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation account for about 25% of all anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions but cannot be credited under current climate change agreements. In the discussions arou...
- Analysing the scope for raising adaptation finance from the CDM
- ( S. Fankhauser;N. Martin / Science Direct , 2010)
- A levy on the Clean Development Mechanism and other carbon trading schemes is a potential source of finance for climate change adaptation. An adaptation levy of 2% is currently imposed on all CDM tran...
- Examining adaptation finance and ethics
- ( M. Grasso / Science Direct , 2010)
- This article develops a framework of procedural and distributive justice specifically tailored to the international-level funding of adaptation based on the assumptions that the ethical contents of su...
- Addressing climate change challenges: prospects for funding
- ( G. Porter;N. Bird;L Peskett;N. Kaur / Heinrich Boell Foundation , 2008)
- This paper describes recent developments and trends in global environmental finance. It aims at mapping out the new environmental funds in terms of their objectives, funding and institutional arrangem...
- Is index insurance an effective tool to manage climate-related disasters?
- ( M., E. Hellmuth (ed);D., E. Osgood (ed);A. Moorhead (ed) / International Research Institute for Climate Prediction, Columbia University , 2009)
- The climate has always presented a challenge to those whose livelihoods depend on it. For poor people, a variable climate presents a risk that can critically restrict options and so limit development....
- Is low carbon technology use feasible?
- ( Global Climate Network , 2009)
- Technology is critical for human development and progress. The fight against climate change will not be won without a revolution in the use of existing low carbon technology and a wave of new inventio...
- Is the World Bank's role in climate change irrelevant?
- ( M., D. Huse (ed);W. Chadza (ed);G. Banda (ed) / Norwegian Forum for Environment and Development , 2008)
- This report is broken into two parts: The World Bank’s climate change agenda: bridging the gaps or widening the North-South divide? and Financing adaptation to climate change in Malawi. The docu...
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