This document analyzes and evaluates the different available options on national and international levels for the design and implementation of financial and institutional arrangements for climate change in Peru.

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Author(s): The Nature Conservancy
Friday, Nov 30 2012

This letter is addressed to the governments of the world’s largest economies, in their roles as domestic policymakers, as important stakeholders in ongoing international negotiations on climate change and as countries where the greatest reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are needed.

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Author(s): Global Investor Networks
Wednesday, Oct 31 2012

This report combines desktop research with a global study on renewable energy financing in developing countries and applies the results from this survey to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Author(s): United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
Wednesday, Feb 29 2012

The case studies compiled and analysed in this study show that despite these and other challenges encountered in sub-Saharan Africa, a number of CDM projects have been successfully implemented, generating financial, environmental, and developmental returns.

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Author(s): Climate Change Working Group and African Task Force of the UNEP-FI
Sunday, Jan 1st 2012

This study presents examples where the CDM has been used in particularly successful ways to mobilise financial resources for carbon-reduction projects, while promoting sustainable development in local communities in sub-Saharan Africa. This study aims to provide an introduction to the CDM – from rationale and project types, to commercial banks in the region not yet familiar with it.

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Author(s): United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
Saturday, Dec 31 2011

This publication is part of an AGEDI initiative to explore Blue Carbon in a local, national and regional setting. This report showcases Blue Carbon for the region and identifies preliminary opportunities in advancing coordinated environmental and climate change policy.

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Author(s): Lutz, S.J.
Saturday, Dec 31 2011

This report makes the business case for private sector adaptation to climate change in ways that build the resilience of vulnerable communities in developing countries, then offers actions that companies and policymakers can pursue to catalyze and scale up action on adaptation.

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Author(s): United Nations Global Compact, UNEP, Oxfam, and WRI
Thursday, Dec 1st 2011

The report aims to contribute to policymakers’ understanding of the factors that institutional investors consider when investing in areas such as renewable energy and energy efficiency, and to set out what institutional investors see as ‘investment-grade’ climate change and clean energy policy that would support significant low carbon, clean energy investment.

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Author(s): IIGCC, INCR, IGCC and UNEP FI
Friday, Sep 30 2011

This WWF Recommendation Paper argues that new and innovative sources of financing are urgently required to address the growing and global challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, poverty and social injustice. Financial transaction taxes are one of the few sources of financing that can provide sufficient funding to address all these global problems, as well as contribute to national budgets and repay the debts remaining from the global financial crisis.

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Author(s): WWF
Tuesday, Nov 30 2010

This book introduces an overarching framework that organises options for international financial mechanisms under three main headings: revenue generation, delivery and institutional arrangements.

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Author(s): Charlie Parker, Jessica Brown, Jonathan Pickering, Emily Roynestad, Niki Mardas & Andrew W. Mitchell / Global Canopy Programme
Wednesday, Dec 09 2009

This paper discusses the need to devolve funding decisions to national (or regional) designated funding entities. It is about the rationale for devolving funding decisions to the recipients, as well as the need for joined-up decision-making at the recipient end.

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Author(s): Benito Müller / Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Tuesday, Nov 3 2009

The objective of this study is to assess the feasibility of an initiative aiming to mobilize additional financing for climate adaptation through debt relief and conversion.

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Author(s): Development Finance International
Thursday, Apr 23 2009

WWF Global Climate Policy Position Paper about the needs for a Global Financial Architecture for Climate Change in order to shift public and private finance and investment flows towards decoupling economic growth from increasing greenhouse gas emissions to a low carbon and climate resilient future.

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Author(s): Donald Pols
Tuesday, Dec 09 2008

This paper hopes to help clarify major recent developments in environmental and climate finance while contributing to a productive global dialogue about the opportunities and challenges offered by those new financial commitments.

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Author(s): Gareth Porter, Neil Bird, Nanki Kaur and Leo Peskett
Wednesday, Jul 09 2008