Alice Caravani

Research Officer, Climate and Environment

Alice has a background in Development Economics and recently completed a Masters at LSE in Environment and Development. Her work at ODI within the CCEF team has mainly been focused on the Climate Funds Update website and issues related to climate finance. In addition to climate finance, Alice’s main research interests include the trade-offs between economic growth and environmental protection in developing countries and economic evaluation of environmental projects and policies.

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Climate knowledge brokers workshop

Event - Workshop - 18 - 20 May 2012

This workshop will explore the scope for closer collaboration between online knowledge brokers working in the climate and development sectors.

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The practical challenges of monitoring climate finance: insights from Climate Funds Update

Publication - Briefing papers - 14 May 2012

Charlene Watson, Smita Nakhooda, Alice Caravani and Liane Schalatek

This brief reflects on the practical experience of monitoring climate finance from the Climate Funds Update (CFU) and it concludes by suggesting key priority areas for efforts to harmonise climate finance reporting.

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The UK fast start finance contribution

Publication - Research reports and studies - 1 May 2012

Smita Nakhooda and Taryn Fransen, with Allister Wenzel, Alice Caravani and Kirsten Stasio

This assessment considers UK efforts to provide 'fast start finance' (FSF) in 2010/11 and 2011/12 in the context of the pledge by developed countries to mobilise USD 30 billion from 2010 to 2012 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). It is part of a series of studies scrutinising how developed countries are defining, delivering, and reporting FSF.

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Mobilising climate finance: a few fundamentals to consider

Opinion - Articles and blogs - 8 December 2011

Coming up with the finance to support developing countries to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts is a central focus of the UNFCCC negotiations underway in Durban this week. Getting developed countries to pay up will be difficult at this time, considering they face severe financial and economic constraints – most recently exacerbated by the eurozone crisis.

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