Programme events and workshops

This workshop will explore the scope for closer collaboration between online knowledge brokers working in the climate and development sectors.

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.

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.

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.

The REDD+ Partnership serves as an interim platform for its partner countries to scale up actions and finance for initiatives to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) in developing countries. On the second day of the second REDD+ Partnership meeting in 2012, a workshop on the drivers of deforestation and REDD+ was held. Charlene Watson was speaking in the third panel discussion on the role of finance in address the drivers of deforestation.

There is growing consensus that strengthening the capacity of developing country institutions to program climate change finance, and spend it well, will be essential if these funds are to be used effectively.  Investing in such readiness has been central to pilot programs to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+). But how effective have these investments been so far?

This panel discussion will bring together a diversity of perspectives from developing countries, developed countries, and civil society to reflect on the lessons from the emerging REDD+ experience of investing in ‘readiness’. 

Tom Mitchell partakes in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Government of Norway to craft a future outreach series for the Special Report on Climate Extremes ’by learning from the delivery of the Oslo outreach event’.

The conference can be viewed online here.