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   This gamble on carbon and the climate could trigger a new financial crisis

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 August 2013

   'Developing countries such as India and China are already investing heavily in wind and solar power. But if emerging markets are to break their dangerous addiction to coal and other fossil fuels, they need financial support to phase out their carbon-intensive stock.'

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   The Norwegian Fast-Start Finance contribution

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 May 2013

   Thorvald Moe, Steffen Kallbekken, Smita Nakhooda, Taryn Fransen and Alice Caravani

   This study considers the scope and distribution of Norway’s climate-change finance in a global context.

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   Green growth: time to stop ducking the trade-offs and difficult decisions

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 7 May 2013

   Two contrasting media articles published over the last few weeks illustrate the on-going confusion about what we should want from international development and the supposed silver bullet ‘Green Growth’ (usually defined as patterns of growth which are both environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive).  The first, published in the New York Times, talks about how growth has failed in Paraguay because many people still make a living from picking through waste dum

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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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   Climate and Development Outlook: special edition on low emissions development

   Publication - Newsletters - 30 January 2013

   Mairi Dupar and Elizabeth Colebourn

   This Climate and Development Outlook takes a special focus on low emissions development (LEDS) initiatives in developing countries and their nascent results

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   The economic case for adopting low-carbon trajectories in low-income countries: a test case of the electricity sector

   Publication - Discussion papers - 6 November 2012

   ODI Working Papers 359

   Prachi Seth

   This Working Paper integrates a number of different economic concepts, to present an analysis of low-carbon development trajectories as a single economic assessment.

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7. Rethinking Rio +20: why economists should take the Earth Summit seriously

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 June 2012

   Back at the first RioEarth Summitin 1992, the civil society organisations in attendance counted an unusual group among their number. Amid the assorted staffers and activists from environmental and development NGOs, there was a handful of campaigners who had a very different relationship with the Earth: representatives of an astronauts' organisation. Their reason for being there? Having seen the planet from space, they'd learned to view it from a different angle.

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   Designing public sector interventions to mobilise private participation in low carbon development: 20 questions toolkit

   Publication - Discussion papers - 8 May 2012

   ODI Working Papers 346

   Shelagh Whitley and Karen Ellis

   This Working Paper lays out a ‘20 Questions Toolkit’ for those in the public sector who are involved in designing interventions at the project and programme level, to assist them in effectively engaging the private sector in low carbon development.

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   No ‘cookie cutters’: we’ll do LEDS our own way

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 23 March 2012

   'Just as international environmental commitments must undergo formal ratification by national parliaments to become law, so too must international norms and guidelines.'

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