Sentences with phrase «overall climate finance»

Although it directly affects the livelihoods of billions of people, agriculture has long received only a fraction of overall climate finance.

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The state energy officials argued that the financing arrangement is fair, saying that New Yorkers will benefit by cleaner air overall and hopefully, slower climate change, by extending the life of the nuclear plants.

The FT / IFC Transformational Business Awards by The Financial Times and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, last week honored the Block Island Wind Farm with one of two Overall Awards for Excellence in Climate Solutions.

«created and lavishly financed institutes to produce anti-global-warming studies, paid for rallies and Web sites to question the science, and generated scores of economic analyses that purport to show that policies to reduce emissions of climate - altering gases will have a devastating effect on jobs and the overall economy.»

While overall spending on climate - related activities is higher than on fossil fuels, there is still a lack of progress in phasing out fossil fuel investments and increasing climate finance.

At last week's Africa Carbon Forum (ACF), delegates called for stronger emphasis on results - based climate finance for both mitigation and adaptation to climate change, and they reiterated their support for market - based mechanisms like the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), which allows emissions - reducing projects to earn certified emissions reduction (CERs) that can be traded to meet overall national reduction goals.

These smaller groups can advance the overall process through informal consultations, technical analysis and information sharing, and implementation of UNFCCC decisions or guidance (e.g., with regard to climate finance).

This post reviews the Cancun outcome through an ethical lens in light of the overall responsibility of those nations that are exceeding their fair share of safe global emissions in regard to their duties: (a) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to levels necessary to prevent harm to others, (b) to reduce greenhouse gas emission to levels consistent with what is each nation's fair share of total global emissions, and (c) to provide financing for adaptation measures and other necessary responses to climate change harms for those who are most vulnerable and least responsible for climate change.

However, that is only part of the task; the GCF also aims to achieve a paradigm shift in climate finance, reduce fragmentation, scale - up overall finance to cover unmet needs, and integrate climate and development planning.