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Carbon trading in Africa: A critical review
Institute for Security Studies, 2011Africa is marginal to the carbon market, and the carbon market has been irrelevant to the continent’s efforts to tackle climate change – Oscar Reyes, Carbon Trade Watch.DocumentThe Adaptation Fund, Clean Development Mechanism and Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation Fund: some national and subnational experiences
Center for Security Studies, 2011With developing countries anticipating the flow of billions of dollars from developed countries to address the devastating impacts of climate change, it is important to recognise that the amounts of funding, the number of institutions involved and coherence in the global architecture will be meaningless without there being democratic governance of the funds at the local level.DocumentTowards just and effective climate finance: developing priorities and principles
Institute for Security Studies, 2011As the global climate finance regime emerges, the identification of priorities and principles contributes to the development of a normative framework on fund governance at national and sub-national levels in developing countries.DocumentThe governance of climate finance in Africa, Asia and Latin America: some critical reflections
Institute for Security Studies, 2011Africa, Asia and Latin America, which combined account for the vast majority of the world’s population, as well as the greater part of its poor people, have historically contributed least to the problem of climate change yet face some of its most severe impacts.DocumentBiogas for climate justice: a story of change in Nepal
International Water Management Institute, 2013Switching from a wood-fuelled cooking fire to a biogas flame saves trees and time, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and prevents health problems. This paper discusses the community-based cooperatives in the Terai plains of Nepal which are using carbon credits to fund micro-loans for families to install the technology.DocumentThe Role of Public Finance in CSP, Case Study: Rajasthan Sun Technique, India
Climate Policy Initiative, 2014Among the technologies capable of harnessing renewable energy to meet growing world energy demand, concentrated solar power (CSP) is of particular interest.DocumentPayments for ecosystem services schemes: project-level insights on benefits for ecosystems and the rural poor.
World Agroforestry Centre, 2013Payments for ecosystem services (PES) provide a market based instrument to motivate changes in land use that degrade ecosystem services.DocumentFrom ‘crowding out to crowding in’: towards an institutional analysis of adaptation funds
South African Institute of International Affairs, 2012Quantifying the cost of funding adaptation to climate change (‘adaptation finance’) is difficult. There is a broad range of estimates, with the UN suggesting an annual requirement of $49–171 billion by 2030.DocumentWither multilateralism? Implications of bilateral NAMA finance for development and sovereignty concerns of developing countries
Development and Mitigation Forum, 2014This paper looks at financial flows supporting climate action and concludes that when flowing through bilateral initiatives and private support, they may affect developing countries in three ways: Firstly, it is argued that the acceptance of bilateral support for actions, particularly with explicit and stated mitigation objectives, weakens the negotiating stance of developing countries for &lsqDocumentPractical methods for assessing private climate finance flows
Nordic Council of Ministers, 2014This study seeks to identify and apply practical methods for estimating private finance flows mobilised “directly” by wealthier countries through their use of public financial instruments.Pages