Climate change, disaster risk reduction & desertification

Environment and ecosystem management are key to ensuring urban and rural development and progress towards the achievement of the MDGs. Poor communities directly depend on natural resources for their livelihood and are the most vulnerable to a degraded environment, natural disasters and are the first to suffer from polluted air, water and soil. Sound natural resource use is at the core of effective strategies to strengthen resilience to climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Adaptation - Climate Change - Clean energy technology - Climate finance - Climate smart agriculture - Desertification/land degradation - Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) - Drought - Flood prevention/control - Mitigation

New Finance Instruments that Can Drive Billions to Developing Countries #climatefinance

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 18 December 2014

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The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance is a new, global initiative comprised of leaders from governments, pension funds, investment banks, project developers, and development finance institutions that aim to drive billions of dollars of private investment into climate change mitigation and...

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Sustainable and Responsible Investment Defined #climatefinance

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 18 December 2014

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The Study highlights the scale of Sustainable and Responsible Investment practices and trends in Europe and across 13 European countries. For the first time, the Study provides new detailed insights on Exclusions, European Impact investing and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) integration...

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Moving to a Low Carbon Economy: The Financial Impact of the Low-Carbon Transition

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 18 December 2014

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Moving to a Low Carbon Economy: The Financial Impact of the Low-Carbon Transition,” compares the costs of low-carbon electricity and low-carbon transportation systems with current systems. The second, “Moving to a Low Carbon Economy: The Impact of Different Policy Pathways on Fossil Fuel Asset...

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Investment and Growth from Climate Action

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 18 December 2014

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On 23rd-24th October 2014, the European Council is expected to make a historic decision to finalise the 2030 Climate and Energy Package. The impact of this policy package will be far-reaching, not only guiding Europe’s climate and energy strategy for the next decade and half, but also providing the...

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Climatescope 2014: Global frontiers for clean energy investment

Diane KELECOM updated the Document | 18 December 2014

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Climatescope assessed 26 Latin America and Caribbean nations, from Mexico in North America, to Trinidad and Tobago in the Caribbean, to Chile in South America. This is a highly heterogeneous group, ranging from the Bahamas with a national GDP of just $11.5bn to the seventh largest economy on earth...

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Group: Environment, Climate Change and Green Economy
Climate finance for real – Learning from country experiences

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 18 December 2014

Since the climate change negotiations in Cancun in 2010, policy-makers and analysts are focused on the $100 billion buzz: If agreements are met, this amount would be available by 2020 for developing countries to promote green development with low carbon use (‘mitigation’) and to cope with the ever...

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How to play in the big leagues – Overcoming climate finance barriers in El Salvador

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 18 December 2014

While the complex negotiations to launch the Green Climate Fund are still underway, many developing countries are reviewing their possibilities to access and manage large-scale climate finance . Among the major challenges governments need to design national and sector plans that are both costed and...

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Effective Climate Finance – Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 18 December 2014

In a few weeks the next Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Convention United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will be launched in Qatar. One of the key themes of this year’s global gathering will be climate finance and in particular the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which will be hosted...

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Financing disaster risks – Lessons from the Bogota exchange

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 18 December 2014

Celebrating its second anniversary, Colombia Humanitaria gathered national stakeholders and international representatives in a knowledge exchange around Disaster Risk Management (DRM). Held in Bogota on 22 and 23 November 2012, the event aimed to systematize lessons learned within Colombia...

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On the road to the Second Regional Dialogue on Climate Finance – Steering Committee launched in Bogotá

Diane KELECOM updated the Information | 18 December 2014

In the nine months since the First Regional Dialogue on Climate Finance held in Tela (Honduas), Latin American and Caribbean governments have advanced in a continous knowledge exchange and in developing national capacities. Taking a qualitative leap in this dynamic process, Chile, Colombia, El...

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