Sentences with phrase «financed by developed countries»

The real change in China's position that we detect in the text is a willingness to submit nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs) to measurable, reportable, and verifiable standards (MRV), but only for NAMAs financed by developed countries [1].

This fund would be financed by developed countries that have a stake in the continued existence of the Amazon and could used by Amazon countries to promote health and education and develop projects that conserve the forest landscape.

Current pledges of climate finance by developed countries ($ 30 billion until 2012 and an aim of mobilizing $ 100 billion a year by 2020) come nowhere near the sums needed to address climate change in developing countries.

Delivery of reductions and financing by developed countries will be measured, reported and verified in accordance with existing and any further guidelines adopted by the Conference of Parties, and will ensure that accounting of such targets and finance is rigorous, robust and transparent.

Not exact matches

Many Chinese commentators think the Plaza Accord of 1985, reached in New York by finance ministers from five developed countries, did not solve many problems in the world and was partly to blame for the Japanese asset bubble and subsequent slowdown.

The study by Chan, Covig, and NG in the June 2005 issue of the Journal of Finance concluded that mutual fund investors in all countries over-invest in their home market, and that the two factors that matter most are how developed the local economy is, and how remote it is from other countries geographically, culturally, or linguistically.

We have become a leader in the golf course equipment leasing and financing industry by dedicating resources and developing strategic partnerships with thousands of customers — golf courses, country clubs, resort properties, municipalities, golf equipment manufacturers, equipment distributors and golf course management companies.

By such a measure, none of the promised $ 100 billion a year in climate financing flowed to developing countries last year, and just 0.4 percent of it has been committed to projects this year.

In a consortium led by the Finnish consultancy GAIA and with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), NewClimate Institute carried out a study on behalf of the Nordic Working Group for Global Climate Negotiations (NOAK) to identify how Nordic finance institutions can best contribute to mobilising climate finance to developing countries in a way that supports the implementation of the Paris Agreement.

The already broad and ambitious efforts of developing countries to build their own clean, climate - resilient futures will be supported by scaled - up finance from developed countries and voluntary contributions from other countries.

The current focus of the war on fossil fuels is the fight to stop the completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline being developed by Energy Transfer Partners and Sunoco Logistics in the mid-western U.S. Protesters have gathered across the country to make their voices heard, and they're hitting the companies behind the pipeline where it hurts — in the pocketbook — by going after the 38 banks providing the financing.

The CTF will aim to promote low - carbon economies by helping to finance deployment in developing countries of commercially available cleaner energy technologies through investments in support of credible national mitigation plans that include low - carbon objectives.

Dismissing an earlier offer by wealthy countries of short - term finance for the developing world, Mr. Di - Aping, in typically strident language, said, «Ten billion dollars will not buy developing countries» citizens enough coffins.»

By committing to targets for emissions cuts and financing for developing countries for mitigation, forest protection and adaptation, G8 countries can build trust and confidence and lead the way on global climate action - both for the MEF as well as for the UN negotiations which will culminate in Copenhagen in December.

Developing countries among us will undertake actions in the 2020 time frame that are quantified, represent a significant deviation from business as usual, also support sustainable development, and are supported, as appropriate, by financing, technology, and capacity - building.

There is an urgent need to scale up financial flows, particularly financial support to developing countries; to create positive incentives for actions; to finance the incremental costs of cleaner and low - carbon technologies; to make more efficient use of funds directed toward climate change; to realize the full potential of appropriate market mechanisms that can provide pricing signals and economic incentives to the private sector; to promote public sector investment; to create enabling environments that promote private investment that is commercially viable; to develop innovative approaches; and to lower costs by creating appropriate incentives for and reducing and eliminating obstacles to technology transfer relevant to both mitigation and adaptation.

A recent report from the O.E.C.D. claiming $ 62 billion has have been mobilized as climate finance in 2014 - 15 against the developed countries» commitments of annual $ 100 billion by 2020 has caused a storm at the UN climate change negotiations in Bonn.

Jouni Eerikainen, who wrote the report's section on the International Finance Corporation, the bank's private lending arm, noted that nearly 40 percent of the roughly $ 10 billion in annual investment these days is handled by private banks in developing countries.

The Agreement will direct an increased share of the $ 100 billion of annual climate finance provided by developed countries towards adaptation in developing nations.

Furthermore, the financing framework may need also consider mitigating financial risks by looking into options such as blended financing using both commercial (bank institutions) and private financing; and possibly considering concessional loan / finance from developed country government to support the deployment of HELE to developing world.

If the IEA is uncertain about the prospects of the investments required by its Reference Scenario being financed in developing countries, is there any real likelihood that the funds and infrastructure will be forthcoming to support two or three times the investment in power supply and distribution that the Agency is predicting on the basis of present policies?

We note an essential step needed now to assure the world that developed countries are on track to provide $ 100 billion in climate finance by 2020 is for them to announce public adaptation and mitigation finance targets in Paris.

Japan is intending to assist development of developing countries through financing and innovation and is committed for 26 % greenhouse gas emission reduction by 2020 compared to 2013.

These include a 2nd commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol (KP), and comparable mitigation actions by developed countries for non-KP parties under the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long Term Cooperative Action (AWG - LCA) and Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) from developing countries with support from means of implementation, these are finance and technology transfer.

This fact sheet briefly presents an environmental project financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund to promote climate change adaptation and integrated coastal zone management in Yemen.

A recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated climate finance flows reached $ 62 billion in 2014, which developed countries took as a sign they were well on track toward the $ 100 billion.

This fact sheet briefly presents an environmental project financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund to promote adaptation to the effects of climate change and drought in Zambia.

This fact sheet briefly presents an environmental project financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund to increase resilience to climate change and natural hazards in Vanuatu.

Indeed, it underlies the UNFCCC commitment by developed countries to provide finance and technological support to developing countries, and it underlies the widespread NGO call for the developed countries to take on «international mitigation obligations» that are just as prominent, official, and legally binding as their domestic mitigation obligations.

Determining the amount of climate finance received by each developing country is a surprisingly difficult task.

This fact sheet briefly presents an environmental project financed by the Least Developed Countries Fund to integrate climate change adaptation into agricultural production and food security in Sierra Leone.

Every year we calculate our Business's own carbon footprint and offset our emissions by helping to finance high quality projects in developing countries to achieve carbon neutrality.

A clear, quick - start financing package for these poorer nations might offset developing country anger over what they view as limited emissions reductions promises by major industrial nations.

The World Bank Carbon Finance Unit (CFU) uses money contributed by governments and companies in OECD countries to purchase project - based greenhouse gas emission reductions in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

This presence in climate finance continues even though many of the WBG's decisions and self - appointed roles in climate initiatives continue to be challenged by developing countries and civil society.

The world can either build on what has been created in the Kyoto Protocol, raise the level of ambition as demanded by the science, and provide sufficient finance to meet developing countries» needs for adaptation, mitigation, and REDD.

China, while curbing domestic construction of coal - powered plants, has become a leading lender financing the construction of new coal - burning power plants in developing countries, according to a 2016 study by researchers at Boston University and the Institute for World Economics and Politics at the Chinese Academy of Social Science.

- Developed countries promised to provide US$ 30 billion for the period 2010 - 2012, and to mobilize long - term finance of a further US$ 100 billion a year by 2020 from a variety of sources.

The position taken by the Australian government in UNFCCC negotiations has been largely counterproductive, including: its membership of the Umbrella Group of delayer countries; its prioritization of a post-2020 agreement over raising ambition as is urgently required; its insistence on a meaninglessly weak Kyoto Protocol second commitment period target for Australia; its unreasonable conditions for Australia to increase its Kyoto target; its refusal to countenance even conditional targets deeper than 25 % below 2000; its pursuit of creative accounting rules for LULUCF (land use, land use change, and forestry) in both Kyoto commitment periods [v]; its intended reliance on international offset mechanisms; and its failure to provide finance for developing countries.

In basic terms, the CDM is a program in which developing countries, like China, who are not bound by carbon emission reduction obligations, are encouraged to undertake projects in their jurisdiction that result in carbon emission reductions through financing provided by developed countries, who are themselves bound by such obligations and can credit such emission reductions to their obligations, even though those reductions have taken place in the developing country.

This activity report provides an overview of country - led efforts on climate change adaptation supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) partnership with financing from the GEF - managed Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF), Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF) and Strategic Priority on Adaptation (SPA) funds.

Rich countries pledged that they would help rustle up $ 100bn a year in public and private funds by 2020 for developing countries to switch to cleaner forms of power, and to finance a Green Climate Fund to allocate the money.

The World Bank's carbon finance products help the market grow by extending and expanding carbon finance to both developing countries and economies in transition — linking private sector buyers of carbon emission reductions with climate - friendly projects seeking financing.

In addition, some are speculating that even the modest ambitions of the talks — to settle how to finance emissions cuts and aid adaptation in developing countries — are likely to be eclipsed by the world's financial woes.

Developed countries promised to mobilize 30bn in fast - track finance by 2012.

It also explicitly proposes that the extent to which developing countries implement the agreement will depend on the support provided by developed countries, explicitly setting finance in the context of the INDCs.

The poor track record of rich nations in meeting their fast start finance pledges has raised serious concerns that these countries will also renege on their bigger promise to ensure that US$ 100 billion flows to developing nations each year by 2020 to help them to respond to climate change.

Prior to 2020, the landscape on climate finance is fairly clear — developed countries have promised to provide $ 100bn a year by the end of the decade.

The wealthier nations promised in 2009 to provide developing countries with US$ 30 billion by the end of 2012, and said this should be «new and additional» finance balanced between support for adaptation and mitigation activities.

Public climate finance provided to developing countries is the finance provided by governments and bilateral and multilateral institutions for mitigation and adaptation activities in developing countries.