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Climate finance can catalyse action
Posted on: 15 November 2013
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The Climate and Development Knowledge Network’s Climate and Development Outlook (November 2013) comes to grips with one of the hottest topics for discussion at the 19th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Warsaw, Poland, namely, how developing countries will pay for climate compatible development and how the world can support them.
Addressing the barriers to climate investment
Posted on: 15 November 2013
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This guide concludes that understanding barriers related to mitigation and adaptation at the project level is important to identify those projects where investment subsidies will be most efficient.
Climate finance negotiations at COP19 in Warsaw
Posted on: 15 November 2013
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This guide provides negotiators with a synopsis of the key climate finance discussions undertaken during 2013 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It aims to inform negotiators and stakeholders who are interested in the different climate finance agenda items and deliverables at the 19th Conference of Parties (COP19) to be held in Warsaw. It assesses possible outcomes in Warsaw that can prepare the way, together with decisions at COP20 in 2014, for the new global agreement on climate change, which will be agreed at the COP in Paris in 2015.
Responding to Climate Change
Posted on: 15 November 2013
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A news and analysis website focused on providing the latest updates and insight into global low carbon developments.
The end of EU climate leadership
Posted on: 14 November 2013
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A number of influential industry lobby organizations in EU countries such as Germany are arguing that the EU should not continue its path as a leader on climate policy as other big emitter countries have not followed its lead. These lobbyists argue that further EU decarbonisation action would endanger the global competitiveness of entire industry sectors. Many Germany and EU based energy-intensive industries are facing structural problems, worsened by the present economic crisis.
Guidance for making the case for climate change adaptation in the built environment
Posted on: 13 November 2013
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Difficulty in making the financial or economic argument for investing in adaptation measures has been highlighted as one of the main barriers to climate change adaptation in the UK built environment sector, reflected in a recent survey of built environment professionals. This guidance is for those working in the built environment sector, including planners, developers and designers. It provides guidance and information sources on: how to begin to assess and communicate the business case for climate change adaption in the built environment; and how to realise developments which are resilient to the effects of a changing climate. It includes recommended reading and web-based resources.
Tackling the climate reality: A framework for establishing an international mechanism to address loss and damage at COP19
Posted on: 13 November 2013
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This report is the fourth in a series of collaborations between ActionAid International, CARE International and WWF International. They have come together as organisations concerned about the lack of concerted action taken by developed countries to tackle climate change to date. They also want to call attention to the consequences of inadequate action by developed countries to follow through on their commitment to support the adaptation needs of developing countries under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Innovative insurance solutions for climate change: How to integrate climate risk insurance into a comprehensive climate risk management approach
Posted on: 13 November 2013
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A new report by the Munich Climate Insurance Initiative and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) examines how insurance fits into a country’s comprehensive climate risk management strategy. The report explores how insurance can enhance existing risk management approaches to assist affected populations and enhance prevention and risk reduction. Including risk transfer tools like insurance may in some cases also speed up recovery efforts after extreme weather events. By transferring some of the risk and the financial burden to a third party, the report finds evidence that some insurance programs have shielded national budgets of governments. Furthermore, insurance availability is correlated with better economic performance after shocks such as weather-related hazard events (e.g. typhoons, hurricanes). On the household level, insurance has been shown to manage risks that would be too large for individuals to cover on their own after losing their assets in a natural catastrophe. The report also finds evidence of limitations and identifies opportunities for using insurance to manage climatic risks. Programs should be designed and implemented as part of an integrated climate risk management strategy involving a balanced mix of approaches.
Pushed to the limit: Evidence of climate change-related loss and damage when people face constraints and limits to adaptation
Posted on: 13 November 2013
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The research findings presented in this report illustrate that communities in different geographic areas already face constraints and limits that prevent them from fully adjusting to current and expected negative impacts of climate change. A key question, and the focus of this report, is what happens to key development goals when efforts to adjust are insufficient or not possible? What patterns of loss and damage emerge in human systems around these barriers and constraints to adaptation?
Understanding climate diplomacy: Building diplomatic capacity and systems to avoid dangerous climate change
Posted on: 13 November 2013
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This paper, commissioned by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN), aims to capture the critical elements of climate diplomacy, and explain how it needs to evolve in order to meet the challenge of avoiding dangerous climate change. CDKN commissioned this work as part of wider efforts to help developing countries better influence the evolution of the international climate change regime.
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