Barbara Buchner, head of the Climate Policy Institute Europe, who has written some of the leading policy
papers on climate finance, noted that the $ 364 billion that went to clean energy activity globally last year is a pittance compared to the $ 1 trillion that the International Energy Institute says is needed annually.
Not exact matches
This working
paper reports
on a series of three regional workshops in which participants from governments in Latin America, Africa and Asia reflected
on the main technical, policy, and capacity challenges to monitoring
climate finance, and exchanged experiences
on efforts that are under way in...
Whereas acting
on climate change seems to feature prominently in the reflection
paper, it remains to see how much the European Commission will finally embrace the concept of
climate mainstreaming its EU budget proposal, which consequently should lead to exclusion of
financing fossil fuel infrastructure post-2020.
Bianka supports delegations from vulnerable countries as technical adviser with technical briefing
papers, background research, and targeted policy analysis
on all aspects of the international
climate finance architecture.
Recognizing the importance of developing countries» participation and their legitimate demand for adequate technology transfer and
financing, the
paper concludes that linking developing country's cooperation
on climate control with industrialized country's R&D and technology transfer would produce win - win - win outcomes for both developing countries and industrialized countries and for the global environment.
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.
The third briefing
paper was
on the
on the organization of the forum for the communication of information regarding to
climate change
finance.