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Johannes Urpelainen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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strategic problems in north south Climate Finance creating joint gains for donors and recipients
Environmental Science & Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Johannes UrpelainenAbstract:Abstract Carbon dioxide emissions are growing rapidly in the developing world, and industrialized countries have access to resources that could fund additional mitigation in the global South. In this article, I examine the political economy of North–South Climate Finance. Building on previous research, I develop a game-theoretic model that includes three key issues in Climate Finance: incentives for recipient participation, capacity building, and leveraging private Finance. The game-theoretic analysis shows how these factors interact and produces several interesting empirical implications. For example, improvements in recipient quality can decrease the donor's capacity building efforts and the probability of successful project implementation.
Peter Ogden - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Climate Finance in and between Developing Countries: An Emerging Opportunity to Build On
Global Policy, 2015Co-Authors: Thomas Hale, Peter OgdenAbstract:The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations are evolving to reflect changes in national and global economic circumstances. However, this shift has been far smaller in the critical issue of Climate Finance, which remains too mired in an increasingly antiquated North–South, developed–developing country dichotomy. This inertia poses a serious threat to our ability to mobilize the Finance required to meet the Climate challenge, and could hamstring the new Climate agreement countries are seeking. However, an important new trend can help move this discussion forward: the rise of Climate Finance within and among developing countries. Far from diminishing the need for developed countries to increase their support for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries, so-called ‘South-South Climate Finance’ (SSCF) can help unlock much needed additional resources for the Climate challenge. This article provides an initial mapping of SSCF and argues that: (1) the emergence of SSCF offers countries an opportunity to mobilize additional Climate Finance, including through multilateral development banks (MDBs); and (2) parties to the UNFCCC should track and foster the role of SSCF so as to more effectively align it with ‘traditional’ Climate Finance that flows from developed to developing countries.
Gaylor Montmasson-clair - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Tracking Climate Finance Inflows to South Africa
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016Co-Authors: Gaylor Montmasson-clairAbstract:The study investigates South Africa’s strategy on Climate Finance (tracking). It then describes South Africa’s project-based approach for tracking and explores what data on public (domestic and foreign) and private Climate Finance inflows are available in South Africa and how information is collected. Finally, the paper highlights the challenges of tracking Climate Finance in South Africa and formulates recommendations.
Dirk T. G. Rübbelke - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Climate Finance: Theory and Practice - Climate Finance:Theory and Practice
World Scientific Series on the Economics of Climate Change, 2017Co-Authors: Anil Markandya, Ibon Galarraga, Dirk T. G. RübbelkeAbstract:How is the struggle against Climate change Financed? Climate Finance: Theory and Practice gives an overview of the key debates that have emerged in the field of Climate Finance, including those concerned with efficiency, equity, justice, and contribution to the public good between developed and developing countries. With the collaboration of internationally renowned experts in the field of Climate Finance, the authors of this book highlight the importance of Climate Finance, showing the theoretical aspects that influence it, and some practices that are currently being implemented or have been proposed to Finance mitigation and adaptation policies in the developed and developing world.
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An analysis of the causes of the mitigation bias in international Climate Finance
Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 2012Co-Authors: Luis M. Abadie, Ibon Galarraga, Dirk T. G. RübbelkeAbstract:Research on international Climate Finance got a new impetus from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Cancun Accords in 2010 which pledge to mobilize US dollars (USD) 100 billion in international Climate financing annually by 2020. The Accords’ specification that adaptation must be addressed with the same priority as mitigation is not reflected in current patterns of international Climate Finance where we face a strong bias towards mitigation Finance. A recent study by Buchner et al. (2011) ascertains a split between mitigation and adaptation Finance of 95:5. In this paper, we investigate potential reasons for this bias. In our framework, we distinguish different decision layers and actors involved in international Climate Finance in order to categorize the causes responsible for the low priority of adaptation in international Finance. The identification of obstacles for international adaptation funding is a first crucial step in the search for ways to overcome respective barriers. We find several different causes of the mitigation bias and these might offer starting points for policies aiming at raising adaptation Finance and curing this bias. Furthermore, we describe interrelations between these causes which effective policies have to take into account.
Cory B. Smith - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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First Steps Toward a Quality of Climate Finance Scorecard (QUODA-CF): Creating a Comparative Index to Assess International Climate Finance Contributions
2013Co-Authors: Katherine Sierra, Timmons Roberts, Michele De Nevers, Claire Langley, Cory B. SmithAbstract:Are Climate Finance contributor countries, multilateral aid agencies and specialized funds using widely accepted best practices in foreign assistance? How is it possible to measure and compare international Climate Finance contributions when there are as yet no established metrics or agreed definitions of the quality of Climate Finance? As a subjective metric, quality can mean different things to different stakeholders, while of donor countries, recipients and institutional actors may place quality across a broad spectrum of objectives. This subjectivity makes the assessment of the quality of Climate Finance contributions a useful and necessary exercise, but one that has many challenges. This work seeks to enhance the development of common definitions and metrics of the quality of Climate Finance, to understand what we can about those areas where Climate Finance information is available and shine a light on the areas where there is a severe dearth of data. Allowing for comparisons of the use of best practices across funding institutions in the Climate sector could begin a process of benchmarking performance, fostering learning across institutions and driving improvements when incorporated in internal evaluation protocols of those institutions. In the medium term, this kind of benchmarking and transparency could support fundraising in more » contributor countries and help build trust with recipient countries. As a feasibility study, this paper attempts to outline the importance of assessing international Climate Finance contributions while describing the difficulties in arriving at universally agreed measurements and indicators for assessment. In many cases, data are neither readily available nor complete, and there is no consensus on what should be included. A number of indicators are proposed in this study as a starting point with which to analyze voluntary contributions, but in some cases their methodologies are not complete, and further research is required for a robust measurement tool to be created. « less
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First Steps Toward a Quality of Climate Finance Scorecard (QUODA-CF)
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013Co-Authors: Katherine Sierra, Michele De Nevers, Claire Langley, J. Timmons Roberts, Cory B. SmithAbstract:Are Climate Finance contributor countries, multilateral aid agencies and specialized funds using widely accepted best practices in foreign assistance? How is it possible to measure and compare international Climate Finance contributions when there are as yet no established metrics or agreed definitions of the quality of Climate Finance? As a subjective metric, quality can mean different things to different stakeholders, while of donor countries, recipients and institutional actors may place quality across a broad spectrum of objectives. This subjectivity makes the assessment of the quality of Climate Finance contributions a useful and necessary exercise, but one that has many challenges.This work seeks to enhance the development of common definitions and metrics of the quality of Climate Finance, to understand what we can about those areas where Climate Finance information is available and shine a light on the areas where there is a severe dearth of data. Allowing for comparisons of the use of best practices across funding institutions in the Climate sector could begin a process of benchmarking performance, fostering learning across institutions and driving improvements when incorporated in internal evaluation protocols of those institutions.