This economic analysis report is structured around two arguments. Firstly, natural resources and ecosystem services in particular have significant contribution to economic growth and poverty reduction. Secondly, failure to manage natural resources, conserve and protect the ecosystem will result in costs of degradation that will compromise medium and long term sustainable development. An ecosystem services approach has been used which is capable of capturing aspects of the environment and natural resources that are usually neglected either because they do not have market values or they cannot readily be quantified. The approach is supported by Case Studies of Rugezi Wetlands and Gishwati Forest.
The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), an initiative of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini, is pleased to announce the outcomes of the 2016 Best Climate Practices Award, focused on “Expanding access to climate financing”.
International Climate Policy (ICP) is a bi-monthly magazine published by the International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG), covering trends around international and domestic climate and energy policies, as well as carbon markets.
Remco Fischer, UNEP FI, discusses UNEP FI works at the interface between governments and the finance sector and has a critical role to play in the intergovernmental climate process.
The UN Environment Finance Initiative 2016 Global Roundtable was recently held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 25-26 October 2016.
The purpose of this guidance manual is to support African government officials and development partners to integrate pro-poor environment, natural resource, and climate sustainability into national and sub-national public sector budgeting and public finance management systems.