Climate finance effectiveness

24 March - 30 May 2011

Details

With the first meeting of the transitional committee of the Global Climate Fund now scheduled for April and the first annual fast start finance progress report due in May we can expect a succession of influential events throughout the year. ODI will make a contribution to this agenda by hosting a series of public meetings on climate finance that will run from March through to May.

Aimed at informing the development and climate change communities, our focus will be to examine how climate finance can be raised, governed and delivered in a way that maximises its development impact. This means examining not only the international architecture (meeting 1) but also looking to see how climate finance plays out at the recipient country level (meeting 2). It will require harnessing all sources of finance, both public and private sources (meeting 3) as well as examining the most effective delivery modalities (meeting 4). Of central importance to many developing countries is securing the necessary financial resources to adapt to the consequences of climate change (meeting 5) in an effort to secure new patterns of growth and economic development (meeting 6).

This meeting series will bring together some of the most influential thinkers and implementers of climate finance to speak at ODI in London.

Events in this series

Capitalising on climate change

Event - Public event - 17 May 2011 13:00 - 14:15 (GMT+01 (BST))

Low carbon growth strategies need to be put in place to stimulate green investment and innovation, and attract climate finance from both private and public sources. However, ODI research on the low carbon growth strategies of a range of countries illustrates that many – especially low income countries - are a long way from understanding and responding to these opportunities and challenges. This meeting explores this challenge and how to finance responses to it.

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How do you spend adaptation finance with confidence?

Event - Public event - 10 May 2011 13:00 - 14:15 (GMT+01 (BST))

Adaptation to climate change is a core objective of the international climate change negotiations and is receiving increasing financial support as commitments to reducing greenhouse gases are further delayed. This meeting focuses on key questions associated with spending adaptation finance.

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Are vertical funds right for climate finance?

Event - Public event - 5 May 2011 13:00 - 14:15 (GMT+01 (BST))

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.

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How can public climate finance most effectively leverage private capital?

Event - Public event - 7 April 2011 16:00 - 17:30 (GMT+01 (BST))

Mobilizing the scale of investments needed in developing countries to build a low-carbon and climate-resilient future will require significant flows from the private sector. This public meeting aims to draw out the major lessons from current practices and proposals to leverage private finance through public sector interventions, with discussions focused around particular successes and failures.

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Solar panel on used for lighting village homes, energy, Sri Lanka.

How can national delivery of climate finance be secured effectively?

Event - Public event - 31 March 2011 11:00 - 14:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

The event will provide the launch of the detailed results of the EDC 2020 project, funded by the European Commission. The workshop focuses on the national level delivery of climate finance, and explores:

What types of institutional structures are emerging to handle climate finance at national level;
How the interface between development cooperation and climate change is unfolding; and
What the main challenges are for effective delivery from donor and host country perspectives.

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After 2015: new challenges in development - climate finance

Event - Public event - 24 March 2011 13:00 - 14:30 (GMT+00)

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.

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