Sentences with phrase «focus on climate change finance»

Under the rubric of «buttressing sustainability,» the Turkish presidency has placed development at the center of its G - 20 agenda, with a special focus on climate change finance.

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Since the Liberal government feels it has checked climate - change financing off its long environmental to - do list, Ottawa is expected to shift its funding focus to other international obligations on the environment, such as the UN Convention on Biological Diversity.

He is a proponent of campaign finance reform, term limits, greater focus on education and a «balanced» effort to address climate change.

The second day focused on resource mobilization for climate change education activities, including exercises on integrating climate change education into greater funding proposals (such as to the Green Climate Fund, GCF), as well as ways to tap into private climate fclimate change education activities, including exercises on integrating climate change education into greater funding proposals (such as to the Green Climate Fund, GCF), as well as ways to tap into private climate fclimate change education into greater funding proposals (such as to the Green Climate Fund, GCF), as well as ways to tap into private climate fClimate Fund, GCF), as well as ways to tap into private climate fclimate finance.

In particular, it addresses the critical question of what policy options, and what type of REDD + funding mechanism, are most conducive towards effectively financing forest - based climate change mitigation (with a focus on Phase 3 of REDD + implementation).

In particular it focuses on climate change adaptation, both planning and financing, and covers the following themes: gender - differentiated impact of climate change in Africa; gender - differentiated impact of adaptation planning and financing; and need and options for the integration of gender perspectives in adaptation responses.

e Commit adequate and predictable new and additional long - term finance to support developing countries to reduce their emissions and adapt to the impacts of climate change with a particular focus on addressing the current structural underfunding of adaptation needs;

Focusing on five countries in the region (Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka), this review captures examples of good practice in climate change adaptation programming, in order to inform Oxfam's learning, enabling it and other organizations to replicate some of these good practices in their own programs and to advocate their adequate financing and governance.

Also we analysed UK contributions to international initiatives for climate resilience and finance mechanisms and realised that they have so far not provided funds for local community - led projects; with the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) having only spent 1/2 of their budget (# 1.4 bn) on overseas development and a focus on investing in large scale (e.g. # 20m), readymade projects on fclimate resilience and finance mechanisms and realised that they have so far not provided funds for local community - led projects; with the UK's Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) having only spent 1/2 of their budget (# 1.4 bn) on overseas development and a focus on investing in large scale (e.g. # 20m), readymade projects on fClimate Change (DECC) having only spent 1/2 of their budget (# 1.4 bn) on overseas development and a focus on investing in large scale (e.g. # 20m), readymade projects on forests.

Some of the issues that proponents of other equity frameworks have argued should be considered in allocating national emissions targets such as historical emissions or the level of economic development in poor countries are already in serious consideration in international climate change negotiation agenda focused on such matters as: (a) financial responsibility for adaptation, (b) responsibility for loses and damages for climate change, and (c) financing of climate friendly technologies for developing countries.

At the same time, Singh said issues of financing mitigation actions to tackle climate change have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate climate change have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Cchange have been a focus of intense discussion in negotiations under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Climate ChangeChange.

In particular, we focus on adaptation policy and finance under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, vulnerability assessments, capacity building and community - based adaptation.

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In particular, the paper focuses on: 1) the contours of the adaptation issue, as well as its relationship to other important issues; 2) the consideration of adaptation within the current international negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including the issues relating to adaptation finance; 3) the challenge of approaching adaptation at every level in a country: community, local, regional, sectoral and national.

SEI's work on international finance and sustainable development has previously focused on the effectiveness, efficiency and fairness of the international climate finance regime, i.e. the mobilisation of international funding on the ground in developing countries to help address climate change.

The NAMA focuses on a set of interventions and measures related to policy development, technical assistance, and access to finance that will be integrated within sustainable commercial oriented investment activities that contribute to enhanced agriculture productivity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, improved food security, and increased incomes.

Possible impacts of climate change on financial institutions and risk financing were the focus of a separate chapter (Chapter 8) in the TAR.