Sentences with phrase «financial mechanism for change»

Developed to compensate or «offset» an equivalent greenhouse gas emission from another source that can not be easily eliminated by improved efficiency, conservation initiatives or changes in behaviour, carbon offsets help mitigate climate change by creating a financial mechanism for change.

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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.

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SONGDO, 17 September 2015 — Meeting on the occasion of their Eighth Bilateral Summit, the heads of the Republic of Korea and the European Union stressed the need to tackle climate change and confirmed their resolve to play their part in concluding a successful universal climate agreement in Paris later this year.The three leaders affirmed their ambition to «make the Green Climate Fund fully operational and the main operating entity of the financial mechanism» under the UNFCCC for the Post-2020 climate regime.

Characterized as the best mechanism for combating climate change, feed - in tariffs act as financial incentives for everyone to produce electricity from green energies such as solar, wind, biogas and run - of - the - river hydro power plants that is fed into the provincial electricity grid.

PERU, LIMA - The meeting in Lima started in a buoyant mood, helped in part by pledges of nearly $ 10bn — including $ 3bn from the US — to the Green Climate Fund, a mechanism for rich countries to give financial aid to help the world's poorest countries to cope with climate change.

This means fast and fair emission cuts in line with science, financial assistance to developing countries so they can adapt to the impacts of climate change and tackle urgent development needs, and a mechanism to compensate for all that will be lost due to climate change.

The agreement also establishes a mechanism for giving tropical nations financial compensation for preserving their rain forests and calls for expanding financial aid for countries struggling to adapt to climate change.

There was agreement that financial mechanisms, including insurance, can play an important role within a strengthened response to climate change, and that financial mechanisms for risk management in developing countries needed to be scaled up.

The GEF is one of the main financial mechanisms for addressing climate change and represents a strategic partner for IFAD.

One important condition for OMTs is the conditionality attached to a European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) or a European Stability Mechanism (ESM) program, which involves primary market purchases of sovereign bonds and changes in national monetary policies.

In this article, I look at mechanisms designed to address the financial responsibility for future changes.