Sentences with phrase «multilateral finance»

ECAs have even greatly exceeded financing for these types of projects by multilateral finance institutions like the World Bank.

This fact - sheet presents the main results of a mapping of global climate change financial flows involving a diversity of public and private sources (e.g. government budgets and capital markets), agents (e.g. bilateral finance institutions, multilateral finance institutions, development cooperation agencies, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), private sector), and channels (e.g. official development assistance, non-concessional loans, carbon markets, financing specifically for climate change, foreign direct investment).

(9) Innovative clean technologies, including U.S. and multilateral financing mechanisms for their deployment, are critical to mitigating global warming pollution, preventing catastrophic changes to the climate, and developing robust economies around the world.

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Re-engagement with the Commonwealth «will pressure Mnangagwa to implement reforms, which in turn will help to convince potential funders, such as the Paris Club donors and multilateral lenders such as the IMF, to approve new financing,» William Attwell, practice leader for sub-Saharan Africa at research firm Frontier Strategy Group, told CNBC via email.

Increasing intraregional Asian trade flows and the development of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) will propel regional integration, but the region's ultimate success in fostering connectivity will be highly dependent on its ability to finance and build regional infrastructure and negotiate and ratify more bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements (FTAs).

In August 2013, the German Finance Ministry characterized bitcoin as a unit of account, [93][260] usable in multilateral clearing circles and subject to capital gains tax if held less than one year.

The international community finances the UN operation in the Congo with 1.4 billion US$ (UN 2011) and additional bilateral and multilateral aid programmes, but it is doing shamefully little to assure these elections put the country on a firm track towards consolidation.

This includes multilateral agencies, export credit agencies and we are also planning to tap the Eurobond market,» wrote Adeosun, who became Finance Minister in November.

Some negative social and environmental impacts are prevented through legislation requiring environmental impact assessments from proponents of big projects as well as through social and environmental safeguard requirements of multilateral development financing institutions.

Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI) is a global network of government authorities, financial service providers, civil society organizations, multilateral institutions and academics who are all working to advance economic citizenship for young people around the world.

National contributions can be adjusted upwards over time, especially as mobilization of climate finance and other forms of multilateral cooperation which are catalysed by the new Paris agreement will allow governments to go further and faster, even before 2030.

Alignment should not be pursued with the Common Principles for Climate Mitigation Finance Tracking, adopted by multilateral development banks and the International Development Finance Club.

On March 31 in Paris, multilateral development banks and the International Development Finance Club — among the world's chief financiers of public and private sector initiatives — gave themselves a pat on the back for agreeing to «climate change mitigation finance tracking principles for development finance&Finance Club — among the world's chief financiers of public and private sector initiatives — gave themselves a pat on the back for agreeing to «climate change mitigation finance tracking principles for development finance&finance tracking principles for development finance&finance».

Meanwhile, low cost financing for hybrid projects may be made available through the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) and other financial institutions including multilateral banks.

However, China remaining cautious on financing of clean energy projects via multilateral climate funds.

Two of the biggest battles are about who gets to disburse climate finance (national entities vs. private banks, multilateral development banks, and large intergovernmental agencies like the FAO) and under what terms (grants vs. loans).

If this same provision were applied across all multilateral development banks and G20 public finance institutions, it would result in tens of billions of dollars per year in concessional finance moving out of oil and gas.

The primary emphasis is on multilateral and bilateral sources of financing but it also includes an overview of private funding sources and public - private partnerships (PPPs).

On average, public finance institutions controlled by G20 governments, along with multilateral development banks such as the World Bank Group, provide $ 71.8 billion per year in public finance for fossil fuels, and only $ 18.7 billion in public finance for clean energy (figure taken from from the report Talk is Cheap: How G20 Governments are Financing Climate Disaster, July 2017, available here).

As mentioned in the press release:» -LRB-...) these groups released a briefing titled «Dirty Dozen: How Public Finance Drives the Climate Crisis through Oil, Gas, and Coal Expansion», highlighting fossil fuel projects by the World Bank Group, other multilateral and national development banks and export credit agencies.

This document is divided into five sections, namely: (i) a description of landfills in Latin America and the Caribbean and environmental aspects related to its construction and operation, (ii) a description of the generation of biogas from landfills (iii) a summary of existing technologies for the construction of biogas plants and their economic implications, (iv) a review of the practices of other multilateral development banks and countries regarding financing of landfills and biogas plants, and (v) the proposed approach IDB to finance biogas plants.

Are climate finance contributor countries, multilateral aid agencies and specialized funds using widely accepted best practices in foreign assistance?

Innovate4Climate, launched in 2017 in Barcelona, is an integral part of this global dialogue of government, multilateral, business, banking, finance, technology leaders and society and embraces the global themes of climate finance, sustainable development, carbon pricing and markets.

And if the rules for what counts as climate finance are not quickly set right, the new Green Climate Fund, the world's premier multilateral climate institution, could also end up supporting climate polluting projects masquerading as climate finance.

Analysis by Carbon Brief last year showed Brazil had received $ 109m between 2013 and 2016 (inclusive) from multilateral climate funds, one of the vehicles for distributing international climate finance for mitigation and adaptation.

The international community, in particular multilateral development banks like ADB, can play a greater role in ensuring that their support to developing countries not only includes general capacity development, but also focuses on identifying and addressing legal barriers to climate finance.

These loan subsidies were in turn enabled by multilateral financial institutions like the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, as well as bilateral donors, highlighting the role for international finance.

Financing from the CIF is channeled through the Bank and other multilateral development banks, with approximately 25 percent of its financing allocated to the private sector to stimulate markets, increase investment potential, and enable financial gain in climate - friendly enterprises and buFinancing from the CIF is channeled through the Bank and other multilateral development banks, with approximately 25 percent of its financing allocated to the private sector to stimulate markets, increase investment potential, and enable financial gain in climate - friendly enterprises and bufinancing allocated to the private sector to stimulate markets, increase investment potential, and enable financial gain in climate - friendly enterprises and businesses.

Despite vocal commitments to help tackle climate change, six key multilateral banks (MDBs) financed over $ 7 billion in coal, oil, and gas projects in 2015, and funded a total of $ 83 billion in fossil fuels from 2008 - 2015.

Both briefings are part of the Big Shift Campaign, a global effort composed of dozens of civil society organizations encouraging government - backed multilateral development banks to reinforce the aims of the Paris Agreement and commit to a shift from fossil fuel finance to clean energy finance.

On the eve of the 2017 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund, Oil Change International and E3G have launched briefings showing that while some multilateral development banks are making good progress on climate action, many are still financing billions of dollars in fossil fuel projects despite mounting climate impacts and global commitments like the Paris Agreement reached in December 2015.

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.

Finance provided and catalyzed by multilateral development banks (MDBs) will help pay for implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement in many developing countries.

The multilateral development banks» $ 7 billion in fossil fuel finance in 2015 is part of over $ 83 billion in support for fossil fuel projects they provided between 2008 and 2015, according to the new analysis by Oil Change International.

shows that despite commitments to help tackle climate change, six key multilateral banks financed over $ 7 billion in coal, oil, and gas projects in 2015.

• Financing For Poor Nations: The Copenhagen Accord provides that developed countries shall set a goal of mobilizing jointly $ 100 billion a year by 2020 to address the needs of developing countries and that the funds will come from a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral.

This dialogue with financial institutions identified how local governments are partnering today with bilateral and multilateral funds, and what should be done to link local governments to domestic and international climate finance.

We also, in Paris we launched something I think will turn out to be very important for us — a C40 finance facility, which is largely funded by the German government at the moment, and is intended to fill that gap where we've got lots of cities with really well technically designed projects, low carbon projects, whether that be cycle routes, or a new low carbon building developments, but where the city just doesn't have the capacity to turn those into really bankable projects — something that a private investor, or indeed a multilateral funding agency, feels comfortable about putting the money into, because it's just not what they're used to doing.

«The absence of an independent accountability mechanism puts the CDM significantly behind other multilateral and some bilateral financing institutions» commented Filzmoser, adding that, «To increase the credibility of the CDM as a viable climate finance instrument in the future, the CDM Board's only sensible choice is to adopt rules that ensure that the CDM applies appropriate human rights standards in line with the most advanced relevant standards applicable to climate related programmes and projects.»

ECAs provide significantly more support to fossil fuels and substantially less support to renewables than either major development finance institutions or multilateral development banks.

Today's report by the High - Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) said the money must come from a wide range of sources — public and private, bilateral and multilateral.

To tackle this tremendous challenge, the international community is looking to the newly established United Nations Green Climate Fund to be the primary channel for multilateral climate finance for the poor and the vulnerable in developing countries.

This behaviour did not improve after the Paris agreement either, as multilateral development banks (MDB) approved over $ 5 billion in fossil fuel finance in 2016.

NAP — Ag provides support to countries for accessing climate finance through international mechanisms, such as the Green Climate Fund (GCF), bilateral and multilateral funding mechanisms, as well as national financing.

Analysis of climate finance flows to Pacific Island states in 2010 — 2014 and recent data on flows from multilateral climate funds.

Innovate4Climate will be the global platform uniting leaders from across policy, multilateral, business and finance sectors to create the partnerships needed to unlock the trillions.

For 18 years, Doug Norlen has conducted successful advocacy to achieve environmental, developmental and accountability policy reform of multilateral trade and finance institutions, export credit agencies and private banks.

Development banks (national, bilateral and multilateral) have mainstreamed climate finance in their core - strategies, and all of their new and existing investments are compatible with a 1.5 C scenario.

The accord stops short, however, of determining the ratio of funds that will be spent on mitigation and adaptation, respectively, and of identifying any specific mechanisms or sources of finance other than «public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources.»

The report concluded with the plan to continue the work programme these specific areas: (a) The analysis of options for the mobilization of financial resources from a wide variety of sources, public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources, and their linkages; (b) The analysis of the relevant analytical work on the climate - related financing needs of developing country Parties; (c) The integration of lessons learned from fast - start finance (FSF) and best practices from developing and developed country experiences in the analysis of sources and needs; (d) The exploration of the interface between public and private finance, including approaches to leveraging private climate finance; (e) The identification of enabling environments that can unlock and foster increased climate finance flows for mitigation and adaption; (f) The exploration of delivery mechanisms that could play a role in channeling climate finance.