29 November - 10 December 2010 Description After last year’s meeting in Copenhagen, the 2010 UNFCCC Conference of the Parties (COP) turns to Mexico and Cancun. Climate finance is central to the agenda of the Cancun meeting because agreeing on finance will be a critical step in moving towards a new global agreement. Providing new and additional finance has proved to be a deeply contentious issue between developed and developing countries, although the commitments made within the Copenhagen Accord signalled a significant step forward. ODI brings a fresh perspective on climate finance. Our analysis focuses on the emerging governance framework and the roles that public and private sector finance can play. We look at: - how climate finance can be sourced from the public and private sectors;
- how it might be raised using different instruments and in different forms (for example, by grant funding or concessional loans);
- how funding is disbursed at the national level and what can be learned from development cooperation.
Our analysis on climate finance builds on work on the Climate Funds Update website that is tracking the development of climate finance mechanisms and funds. Outputs Public event | 4 December 2010 11:30 - 13:00 GMT-06 This side event will provide lessons and insights highly relevant for
the ongoing political discussions in Cancun related to finance issues as
well as for the debates being held by investors in sustainable energy
solutions around the globe. Find out moreArticles and blogs | October 2010 | Neil Bird A framework of principles outlining how climate finance should be mobilised, administered and disbursed is lacking. This article describes such a framework, based on principles already embedded with the UNFCCC text. DownloadsPublication Series This series of short, introductory briefings on various aspects of climate finance aim to develop a better understanding of the quantity and quality of financial flows going to developing countries. Downloads
Climate finance is central to the agenda of the Cancun meeting because financing is so important to reaching a new agreement. It has also proved to be a deeply contentious issue between developed and developing countries. ODI's work on aims to bring...
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