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Research report

Applying Cost Benefit Analysis at a Community Level: A review of its use for community based climate and disaster risk management

01/03/2013

3 documents

45 pages long

Languages: English

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This report reviews 23 studies that have applied cost benefit analysis (CBA) to assess community-based disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation projects. The review shows that CBA at a community level is adding value to our understanding of the effectiveness of efforts to reduce climate and disaster risk. The report concludes with key messages emerging from […]

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Briefing note

Making Climate Finance Work for Women in South Africa

22/01/2013

1 documents

4 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate finance

Overview

Women living in poverty across South Africa need support to adapt to climate change and to take an active part in the transition to a low carbon economy. This briefing sets out the context of climate finance in South Africa and provides recommendations to policy makers in South Africa for helping women to access and […]

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Issue briefing

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

25/11/2012

1 documents

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 finance

Overview

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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