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An overview of Lagoro IDP camp in Kitgum District, northern Uganda, 20 May 2007. Manoocher Deghati/IRIN

Latest publications: Briefing papers

Climate finance regional briefing: Sub-Saharan Africa

Publication - Briefing papers - 23 November 2012
Liane Schalatek Heinrich Böell Stiftung and Smita Nakhooda, Sam Barnard, Alice Caravani , Overseas Development Institute
Africa is the region that has contributed the least to global greenhouse gas emissions but is the most vulnerable to the impact of climate change. It is estimated that the total cost of Africa’s adaptation to climate change will be between $10-30 billion a year by 2030.

Climate finance in Sub-Saharan Africa

Publication - Briefing papers - 23 November 2012
Smita Nakhooda, Alice Caravani, Neil Bird, ODI and Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Stiftung
This policy brief reviews general trends in African climate finance. It considers the key actors in the region and their evolving role in negotiations over the global architecture for climate finance, and finds that funding that is currently delivered is far from fulfilling the demonstrated needs of SSA.

Mitigation finance

Publication - Briefing papers - 23 November 2012
Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Smita Nakhooda, Sam Barnard, Alice Caravani, ODI
This Brief describes the funds that have been created by industrialized countries to finance emission reductions in developing countries and examines how these funds can work with private capital to secure the level of funding needed.

Climate finance regional briefing: Asia and the Pacific

Publication - Briefing papers - 23 November 2012
Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Sam Barnard, Smita Nakhooda, Alice Caravani, Overseas Development Institute and
Asia is the largest continent and has the world’s most expansive Ocean – the Pacific – on its margins. It is also the region that has received the most international climate funding, which so far has concentrated on supporting mitigation activities.

REDD-plus finance

Publication - Briefing papers - 23 November 2012
Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Stiftung and Alice Caravani, Smita Nakhooda, Charlene Watson, ODI
REDD-plus finance has received a lot of attention over the last years. This Brief describes the funding initiatives in support of this major international mitigation strategy and raises some ongoing challenges for the equitable delivery of climate finance.

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