Policy Paper
Climate Finance Additionality: Emerging Definitions and Their Implications
July 2, 2010 - This paper explores the following two main issues: 1. How is additionality being defined by different political actors? 2. What are the technical and political implications of these different definitions? And what do the varying definitions require in terms of tracking and the measurement, reporting and verification of finance? Jessica Brown, Neil Bird and Liane Schalatek more»
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American Power: YES, American Responsibility: NOT REALLY... – May 13, 2010 - After months of haggling, praying, fearing, hoping, threatening and cajoling, the Senate version of a comprehensive climate and energy bill was finally released just yesterday by US Senators Joe Liebermann and John Kerry.  Liane Schalatek more»
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EU Bank Creates New Climate Fund – May 13, 2010 - Just a few days ago, the European Investment Bank (EIB), the financing arm of the EU and its 27 member countries, formally joined the ranks of other multilateral development banks and the World Bank  in creating its own climate change fund. Liane Schalatek more»
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The IMF’s “Green Fund” Proposal – March 26, 2010 - Print-fresh from Washington’s 19th Street comes a short, but content-heavy paper by two IMF economists on how an international Green Fund partially financed by climate-SDRs could be set-up with the goal of generating some US$ 100 billion per year by 2010. Liane Schalatek more»
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Germany “Recycles” Most of its 2010 Climate Aid – March 12, 2010 - Budget cuts are painful, no doubt about it. In times of empty coffers and growing deficits some really hard choices have to be made. Liane Schalatek more»
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Where’s the Money? The Status of Climate Finance Post-Copenhagen – March 4, 2010 - When the dust settled after the near failure of the UNFCCC climate talks in Copenhagen, the issue of climate finance seemed strangely to have been one of the few areas, where despite all procedural and political misgivings, real progress was made.  The “Copenhagen Accord” gives some clear promises and numbers for both short- and long-term climate financing. However, as the Accord is a nonbinding political agreement, many questions about if and how those commitments can be fulfilled are yet to be answered.  A new analysis by  Liane Schalatek, HBF, and Neil Bird and Jessica Brown, ODI, analyses some of these questions in further detail. more»
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The Missing Link: Bringing Gender Equality to Adaptation Financing – November 2009
Climate change has already severe impacts especially in the poorest countries and for the most vulnerable people and groups, among them disproportionally many women. Adapting to these impacts will be very costly but unavoidable. By Liane Schalatek more»
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Gender and Climate Finance: Double Mainstreaming for Sustainable Development – May 2009
Climate change is real, it is happening already, and its impacts on people are not gender-neutral. It is affecting men and women all over the world differently, especially in the world’s poorest countries and amongst the most vulnerable people and communities.1 As women and men have different adaptive and mitigative capabilities, the financing instruments and mechanisms committed to climate change activities in mitigation and adaption need to take these gender-differentiated impacts into account in funds design and operationalization as well as concrete project financing. By Liane Schalatek more»
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Doubling the Damage: World Bank Climate Investment Funds Undermine Climate and Gender Justice – April 2009
Based on the premise that “there will be no climate justice without gender justice,”7 and vice versa, this introductory paper takes a preliminary look at the linkages between climate change, gender justice and the International Financial Institutions (IFIs). By Anna Rooke, Gender Action more»
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Fairness in Global Climate Change Finance – March 2009
Financing for aaptation, mitigation and low-carbon sustainable development is a key building black fr a new UN global climate agreement. This study gives an overview of recent cosst assessments and proposals for funding sources and mechanisms. By Andrew Pendleton and Simon Retallack more»
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New Finance for Climate Change and the Environment – July 2008
The world has moved beyond simple acknowledgement that climate change and environmental degradation pose significant risks to humanity and the planet’s ecosystems. In recognition of the
increased vulnerability of billions of people, mostly in the developing world, Northern donors have pledged billions of dollars in new financial commitments. Those funds are to be delivered through no fewer than a dozen new environmental funding mechanisms seeking to mitigate these risks and to help the most vulnerable to adapt to coming societal and environmental changes. By Gareth Porter, Neil Bird, Nanki Kaur and Leo Peskett more»
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Gender and Climate Change Finance: A Case Study from the Philippines – November 2008
The Philippines are a relatively minor contributor to global greenhouse gas emissions, however, it is highly vulnerable to climate change and the scenarios for the Philippines predict adverse
environmental and socio-economic consequences. By Athena Perralta more»