Climate Finance Fundamentals

Publication series

This series of short, introductory briefings are designed for readers new to the debate on global climate change financing.  In light of the fast pace of developments in climate finance, the briefs provide a better understanding of the quantity and quality of financial flows going to developing countries.

These briefs outline the principles of public climate finance; the emerging global climate finance architecture; and address the instruments, needs and actual funding amounts in the action areas of adaptation, mitigation and forest protection (reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, REDD+).  Several look specifically at the climate funding situation for specific regions of the world.

Climate finance fundamentals 3: adaptation finance

Briefing papers | November 2015 | Nella Canales Trujillo, Charlene Watson, Alice Caravani, Sam Barnard, Smita Nakhooda and Liane Schalatek
This brief examines the challenge the international community faces in ensuring adequate levels of funding for adaptation activities in vulnerable developing countries.
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Climate finance fundamentals 4: mitigation finance

Briefing papers | November 2015 | Sam Barnard, Alice Caravani, Smita Nakhooda and Liane Schalatek
This brief describes the funds that have been created by industrialised countries to finance emission reductions in developing countries.
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Global climate financing: how effective is it at the country level?

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Side event
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Are vertical funds right for climate finance?

At present, climate finance is very much in its infancy. However, the challenges it will face to be effective, for both climate change and development, will in many areas be similar to those encountered by the traditional aid industry over the last 30-50 years. This meeting will draw out the major lessons from the aid effectiveness agenda and examine how relevant these are for climate finance, with discussions focused around the particular example of vertical funds.
Public event
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After 2015: new challenges in development - climate finance

This meeting is at the inter-section of two ODI meeting series - on the post 2015 development framework, and on climate finance. The meeting will assess the extent to which achieving progress on poverty and deprivation can become an aspect of responses to climate change and of international climate finance, and if/how the post 2015 development framework needs to change in response to climate change.
Public event
24 March 2011
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Climate finance effectiveness

2011 is an important year for climate finance.  With the 17th COP meeting of the UNFCCC planned for the end of the year in Durban, South Africa, strong progress on climate finance is necessary for the success of the international negotiations. 
Event Series
24 March 2011
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