Rio+20: the UN Conference on Sustainable Development
Rio +20 will focus on pivotal environmental, economic and social issues for the future. ODI work will respond to the key debates taking place at this crucial conference.
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Seduced by disaster insurance? Don’t dive in
'Under the leadership of the Mexican Presidency, disaster risk management featured on the ‘financing track’ of the G-20 discussions this week in Los Cabos, Mexico for the first time. Worries about record economic disaster losses in 2011, combined with Mexico’s long standing experience of disaster risk financing, have helped move the issue up the G20 policy agenda'. -
Carbon markets and the green economy: learning from the past to shape the Rio agenda
'In my opinion, this new proposal of merging carbon markets within a broader green economy will leave the poor more vulnerable to market risks, unless there is a strong regulatory and consistent governance framework in place.' -
Climate finance transparency
In collaboration with World Resources Institute (WRI) and Publish What You Fund, this round table building will explore a number of new studies that have recently been completed. These include two reviews of the scope, objectives and reporting practices of the UK and US climate finance contributions by and an analysis of the aid transparency and climate finance nexus.
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Climate knowledge brokers workshop
This workshop will explore the scope for closer collaboration between online knowledge brokers working in the climate and development sectors.
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Shedding light on fast-start finance
'It’s not presently possible to say with confidence how much funding has been disbursed or where it’s going... consistent fast-start finance reports that provide detailed lists of projects and programs supported are needed' -
Following the money: reviewing fast-start finance contributions
It is imperative to understand where and how developed countries are delivering on their climate finance pledges. This event will present key lessons from case studies of the UK and US fast-start finance contributions, as well as preliminary conclusions from a similar study of Japan’s contribution. The studies are lead by ODI, World Resources Institute (WRI), and Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES), respectively, in collaboration with the Open Climate Network, a partnership of researchers and civil society to track country progress on climate change. Invited panelists include representatives from: UK DFID, US Department of State, Government of Mali, Government of South Africa, Oxfam International and UNFCCC Secretariat.
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Making climate finance work: perspectives from different actors
Hosted by the Government of Germany, this event will discuss perspectives from different actors regarding needs and experiences in adaptation and mitigation finance. Smita Nakhooda will be presenting.
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The practical challenges of monitoring climate finance: insights from Climate Funds Update
This brief reflects on the practical experience of monitoring climate finance from the Climate Funds Update (CFU) and it concludes by suggesting key priority areas for efforts to harmonise climate finance reporting. -
Flooding Sindh province, Pakistan: people returning home as soon as the water recedes
License: Creative Commons
Credit: DFID
Source: FlickrUNFCCC 2012 climate change conferences in Bonn
The 2012 climate change intersessional meetings in Bonn will need to pick up the momentum generated in Durban. The Durban Platform has the goal of “enhancing mitigation ambition to identify and to explore options for a range of actions that can close the ambition gap with a view to ensuring the highest possible mitigation efforts by all Parties”, and includes a commitment to develop a “new protocol, another legal instrument or agreed outcome with legal force” by 2015.
ODI staff will be hosting and participating in a number of events at Bonn, including the REDD+ partnership workshop on drivers of deforestation, CDKN's climate knowledge brokers workshop and side events on transparency of climate finance.