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Issue briefing

The Climate ‘Fiscal Cliff’: An evaluation of Fast Start Finance and lessons for the future

25/11/2012

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10 pages long

Languages: English

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After a year of extreme weather, developing countries face a climate ‘fiscal cliff’ at the end of 2012, as Fast Start Finance expires and the Green Climate Fund remains empty. New Oxfam analysis of Fast Start Finance reveals that much of it has been a false start. Governments have not delivered on commitments made in […]

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Technical briefing

The UNFCCC work programme on long-term finance

13/08/2012

1 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English

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New sources of climate finance must be found to curb the alarming shift in Official Development Assistance (ODA) to climate finance and to protect the development gains of recent decades. Climate change is an additional burden for poor countries and requires additional resources to tackle it. The outcomes of the UNFCCC Work Programme on Long-term […]

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Research report

Climate Finance: A tool-kit for assessing climate mitigation and adaptation funding mechanisms

07/12/2011

1 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English

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Developed countries have committed to raising $100 billion a year to help finance climate mitigation and adaptation activities in developing countries. Where will this money come from? The new report from Institute of Development Studies and Stamp Out Poverty looks at this question. It develops a tool-kit to enable interested parties to assess and compare […]

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Briefing note

Out of the Bunker: Time for a fair deal on shipping emissions

08/09/2011

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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International shipping is a major – and rapidly growing – source of greenhouse gas emissions. Agreement to apply a carbon price to shipping can both reduce emissions and raise funds for climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. This paper shows that doing so is possible while ensuring developing countries face no net costs. […]

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Issue briefing

Gender and the Green Climate Fund

18/07/2011

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Women are on the front line of coping with, and adapting to, the effects of climate change. Both climate change impacts and mitigation and adaptation responses affect women and men differently. Yet current climate finance institutions almost entirely ignore gender issues. The Green Climate Fund cannot afford to make the same mistake. Many agree the […]

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Briefing paper

Owning Adaptation: Country-level governance of climate adaptation finance

13/06/2011

13 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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As financing for climate change adaptation in developing countries begins to flow, it is essential that the governance of funding at the global and country level be shaped so that the needs of the most vulnerable can be met. The core issue is country-level ownership of adaptation finance. Providers of adaptation finance must put developing […]

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Briefing note

Righting Two Wrongs: Making a new global climate fund work for poor people

06/10/2010

4 documents

18 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Climate change is already negatively affecting the lives and livelihoods of poor men and women. Yet it is estimated that less than a tenth of climate funds to date have been spent on helping people in vulnerable countries adapt to the impacts of climate change. The poor are losing out twice: they are hardest hit […]

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Briefing note

Climate Finance Post-Copenhagen: The $100bn questions

31/05/2010

4 documents

10 pages long

Languages: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish

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Climate change is the single greatest threat to development – making the battle to overcome poverty ever harder and more expensive. Finance is urgently needed to help vulnerable communities adapt to a changing climate. Last year the World Bank estimated the costs of adaptation in poor countries were $75-100bn per year if global warming was […]

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Discussion paper

Adaptation to Climate Change in India : A study of Union budgets

05/04/2010

1 documents

86 pages long

Languages: English

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The implications of climate change are affecting many regions in the world; India is particularly vulnerable to the damaging, adverse effects of greenhouse emissions. This working paper is a collaborative study produced by Oxfam India and the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability (a policy research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi). It is […]

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Briefing note

A Just and Global Green New Deal

12/03/2010

1 documents

5 pages long

Languages: English

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Our global responses to the recession and climate change are inextricably linked. Political and policy decisions in the next ten months on the recession and on climate change will define whether our planet and its people are heading for a brighter future of prosperity and climate security, or a future of inequality, poverty, conflict, and […]

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