The Black Carbon Finance Study Group (BCFSG), led by the World Bank Group and United Nations Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative with support from the CCAC, investigated ways to scale up financing and investments for black carbon mitigation. Its new report identifies existing funds and potential financial mechanisms that could attract more funding and outlines strategies for scaling up in future.
The BCFSG, comprised of 30-40 experts with backgrounds in operations, policy, science and finance, began its working sessions in June 2014. Their main mission was to identify priority sectors to focus on, key investment opportunities, and the potential financing mechanisms to lower black carbon emissions.
As a result, two black carbon intense sectors (domestic cooking and heavy diesel) were recognized as mature enough to attract public and private sector financing, and had sufficient performance standards to measure progress. While it was not in the working group’s mandate to identify performance metrics they determined that having clear ways of measuring black carbon abatement is crucial to attract funding.
Climate change is expected to increase risks to businesses, infrastructure, assets and economies. Understanding how to involve the private sector in responding to these risks – or encouraging them to take advantage of the new business opportunities that may arise from changing climate conditions – is crucial to catalyze greater investment in activities that increase countries, businesses, and communities’ resilience.
China’s economy is undergoing a major structural transformation towards a new development model focused on achieving better quality growth that is more economically and environmentally sustainable, and achieves better social outcomes for the Chinese people. This paper traces the origins and explains the content of this new growth model, and considers its likely implications for the trajectory of China’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In so doing, this report can contribute to an important policy debate concerning the future direction of China’s economy and its role in responding to global climate change.
The report presents the findings of research on the perceptions of agri-food exporters of climate change. It provides direct insight into the perceived needs of business and exporters in responding to climate change impacts in Uganda and Peru, to inform ITC, its clients and other Aid for Trade practitioners on strategies to mainstream climate resilience among exporters and to improve the effectiveness of support for adaptation. Part 1 on Uganda shares the perceptions of agri-food exporters in key export sectors including coffee, tea, cocoa, cotton, fruits and spices. Part 2, on Peru, shares the perceptions of agri-food exporters in the coffee and cocoa sectors.
This report summarises the main insights from the 2015 Global Climate Legislation Study. It is the fifth edition in a series dating back to 2010. The 2015 edition covers 98 countries plus the EU, up from 66 in 2014, which together account for 93 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions.
The study is intended as a source of information for legislators, researchers and policy-makers. It is hoped that parliaments considering climate change legislation will benefit from the growing body of experience reflected in the study. Facilitating knowledge exchange among parliamentarians was one of the primary motivations behind the Climate Legislation Study when the series was conceived by the Grantham Research Institute, LSE and GLOBE International in 2010.