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   Climate change – is that a small light at the end of the long tunnel?

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 5 July 2013

   If you’re looking for bad news on international development, then look no further than climate change. Energy-related carbon emissions have reached an all-time high. Global warming effects are coming through more quickly and more severely than anticipated. There is a growing risk that advances in human development will be thrown into reverse gear, with increased exposure to drought, floods and extreme weather reinforcing poverty traps.

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2. Integrating building blocks of mitigation climate finance

   Event - Public event - 12 June 2013

   This side event focused on climate finance needs, tools and institutions for delivery, and lessons learned on the effectiveness of existing funds. Smita Nakhooda from ODI shared insights from recent work on effectiveness.

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   Five insights from developed countries' fast-start finance contributions

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 11 June 2013

   'The Fast-Start-Finance period was a good start, but now it’s time to develop long-term climate finance plans.'

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   Scaling up: how Germany, Japan, Norway, the UK, and the US approached fast-start climate finance

   Publication - Articles and blogs - 11 June 2013

   Overseas Development Institute (ODI), World Resources Institute (WRI), Institute of Global Environment and Sociey (IGES), Center for International Climate and Environmental Research - Oslo (CICERO), Germanwatch

   This note summarises the different approaches that Germany, Japan, Norway, the UK and US have taken to delivering fast start finance.

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   Behind the climate finance headlines

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 10 June 2013

   This commentary is based on a joint analysis by Smita Nakhooda (ODI), and Taryn Fransen of the World Resources Institute (WRI), reflecting on the Fast Start Finance experience on the occasion of the 38th sessions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation and the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice, as well as the second part of the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action, taking place from Jun. 3-14, 2013, in Bonn, Germany.

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   UK Environmental Audit Committee: energy subsidies in the UK

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 15 May 2013

   'The goal of that money is to address climate change, mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. That finance, when we look at it, is really a drop in the bucket compared to fossil fuel subsidies.'

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   At cross-purposes: subsidies and climate compatible investment

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 12 April 2013

   Shelagh Whitley

   The fifth paper in ODI's series on defining and developing understanding of climate finance in the national or domestic context. This paper has a focus on private climate finance and in particular fossil fuel subsidies.

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   The effectiveness of climate finance: a review of the Amazon Fund

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 March 2013

   ODI Working Papers 372

   Maya Forstater, Smita Nakhooda and Charlene Watson

   This working paper is part of a series of studies of the effectiveness of dedicated climate funds. This paper reviews the Amazon Fund in Brazil.

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   Measuring the effectiveness of public climate finance delivery at the national level

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 28 March 2013

   Neil Bird, Helen Tilley, Nella Canales Trujillo, Godber Tumushabe, Bryn Welham and Pius Yanda

   This paper is the fourth in an ODI series defining and developing understanding of key issues in climate finance at national levels.

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    Mongolia: readiness for climate finance

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 14 February 2013

    Merylyn Hedger

    This report kick-starts discussions in Mongolia to improve its climate readiness capacity and to support work towards the establishment of a national implementing entity which could be accredited to directly access external funds.

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