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   A transparency agreement for international climate finance – addressing the trust deficit

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 30 March 2010

   As new climate change funding initiatives appear, principles to assess their worth have been proposed under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). However, there has been little emphasis on how these principles might fit together in a coherent framework by which compliance with the principles could be assessed. This Opinion proposes a transparency agreement for international climate finance that could rebuild the trust that was eroded at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit in December 2009.
   

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   Where's the money? The status of climate finance post‐Copenhagen

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 5 March 2010

   Climate Funds Update - Climate Finance Policy Briefs 1

   Liane Schalatek, Neil Bird and Jessica Brown

   This report looks at the short-term, long-term and alternative financing solutions proposed by the Copenhagen Accord.

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3. Climate change finance must be additional to finance for development

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 1 February 2010

   Bill Gates has warned that climate change finance should not be diverted from other development priorities (Health funding in danger, says Gates, 25 January). Whether climate finance will be additional to official development assistance (ODA, or ‘aid') is hotly debated. Some climate finance can be classified as aid (within the OECD-DAC creditor reporting system) so the question remains: is newly announced climate finance really additional, or is it just recycled aid?

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4. Beyond grants: climate finance in developing countries

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 4 December 2009

   Developing countries need massive amounts of investment to support a shift to low carbon and climate resilient growth and development. According to the World Development Report 2010, mitigation in developing countries could cost between $140 to 175 billion per year over the next 20 years, with adaptation investments rising to an average of $30 to $100 billion a year between 2010 and 2050. Yet efforts to raise funding for mitigation and adaptation have been inadequate, and, to date, amount to less than 5% of projected needs.

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   The Little Climate Finance Book

   Publication - Books or book chapters - 1 December 2009

   Charlie Parker, Jessica Brown, Jonathan Pickering, Emily Roynestad, Niki Mardas, Andrew W. Mitchell

   The Little Finance Book also aims to demystify some of the key concepts around financial mechanisms that currently hinder negotiations.

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6. The EU climate finance deal: what are the implications?

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 4 November 2009

   In an effort to ‘drive momentum towards Copenhagen’, in the words of EC President Jose Manuel Barroso, the European Union has just agreed that measures to tackle climate change will need €100 billion ($148 billion; £90 billion) a year by 2020, with €22-50 billion coming from international public support. In the short-term, the leaders agreed that up to €7 billion a year would be needed from January 2010 for three years for ‘fast-track’ funding in the developing world – a voluntary commitment that avoids specific funding targets for individual EU countries.

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   Financing Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Africa: Key Issues and Options for Policy-Makers and Negotiators

   Publication - Briefing papers - 17 May 2009

   Jessica Brown, Djimingue Nanasta and Neil Bird

   Providing financial support to developing countries to help mitigate the effects of climate change and adapt to its impacts, will be crucial to achieving agreement at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen in December 2009. Several proposals to generate new funds are being put forward to the UNFCCC. This policy brief presents different funding options for consideration and makes recommendations on the way forward.

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   Helen Tilley

   Helen Tilley

   Staff - Research Fellow - Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure

   Helen's research interests include the political economy and accountability of aid and development, public financial management, national climate finance and aid effectiveness. She has over twelve years experience of working on development in Africa and Asia and holds a PhD in Economics.

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9. Climate Finance Fundamentals

   Publication - Research reports and studies

   This series of short, introductory briefings on various aspects of climate finance aim to develop a better understanding of the quantity and quality of financial flows going to developing countries.

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10. Climate finance

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    Climate finance is a major issue for the international community where consensus has yet to be found. Information provision is one starting point to build such a consensus.

    Much needs to be done to improve understanding of how and what climate finance will support at the national and sub-national levels in recipient countries.

    Three major research areas underpin how climate finance will evolve over the coming years and represent ODI’s research focus:

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