finance

The Diverse and Extensive Global Landscape of Climate Finance Flows

SNA — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:15:24 +0000

The landscape of climate finance is diverse and extensive. Public and private actors in projects for greenhouse gas emission reductions and climate resilience invest more than USD 300 billion per year. Scaled-up investments and leveraging of private finance are needed to stabilise global temperatures. This knowledge package gives an overview of the global climate finance landscape, with its sources, instruments,...Read more

Climate Finance for Reduction of Emissions and Vulnerability

SNA — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:38:26 +0000

Climate finance is defined as the financial resources paid to support climate change mitigation and adaptation activities. International climate finance as part of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change framework refers to the financial flows from developed to developing countries. This knowledge package provides an introduction to climate finance, including definitions and an overview of principles for climate...Read more

International Climate Policy Architectures – Top-Down and Bottom-Up

melanie.schlund — Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:24:38 +0000

International climate policy currently seems to be undergoing a transition from a centralized model of governance to a "hybrid" decentralized approach that combines country-level mitigation pledges with common principles for accounting and monitoring. Pledges for 2020 are likely to lead to a warming of at least 3°C. Unless a more stringent approach can be agreed for 2030, the international regime...Read more