Download or read book Global Environment Facility Financing Adaptation Action written by Global Environment Facility and published by Global Environment Facility. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financing Adaptation Action written by Global Environment Facility and published by Global Environment Facility. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financing Adaptation to Climate Change at the Global Environment Facility written by Global Environment Facility and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Accessing Resources Under the Special Climate Change Fund written by Global Environment Facility and published by Global Environment Facility. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change written by Global Environment Facility and published by Global Environment Facility. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Review of the Global Environment Facility Earth Fund written by and published by GEF Evaluation Office. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Financing Adaptation to Climate Change at the GEF written by Global Environment Facility and published by . This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book International Environmental Financing written by Richard K. Lattanzio and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States contributes funding to various international financial institutions to assist developing countries to address global climate change and other environmental concerns. Congress is responsible for several activities in this regard, including (1) authorizing periodic appropriations for U.S. financial contributions to the institutions, and (2) overseeing U.S. involvement in the programs. Issues of congressional interest include the overall development assistance strategy of the United States, U.S. leadership in global environmental and economic affairs, and U.S. commercial interests in trade and investment. This report provides an overview of one of the oldest international financial institutions for the environment—the Global Environment Facility (GEF)—and analyzes its structure, funding, and objectives in light of the many challenges within the contemporary landscape of global environmental finance. GEF is an independent and international financial organization that provides grants, promotes cooperation, and fosters actions in developing countries to protect the global environment. Established in 1991, it unites 182 member governments and partners with international institutions, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector to assist developing countries with environmental projects related to six areas: biodiversity, climate change, international waters, the ozone layer, land degradation, and persistent organic pollutants. GEF receives funding from multiple donor countries—including the United States—and provides grants to cover the additional or “incremental” costs associated with transforming a project with national benefits into one with global environmental benefits. In this way, GEF funding is structured to “supplement” base project funding and provide for the environmental components in national development agendas. GEF partners with several international agencies, including the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), among others, and is the primary fund administrator for four Rio (Earth Summit) Conventions, including the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). GEF also establishes operational guidance for international waters and ozone activities, the latter consistent with the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer and its amendments. Since its inception, GEF has allocated $11.5 billion—supplemented by more than $57 billion in cofinancing—for more than 3,200 projects in over 165 countries. GEF is one mechanism in a larger network of international programs designed to address the global environment. Accordingly, its effectiveness depends on how the fund addresses programmatic issues, builds upon national investment plans, reacts to recent developments in the financial landscape, and responds to emerging opportunities. Critics contend that the existing system has had limited impact in addressing major environmental concerns—specifically climate change and tropical deforestation—and has been unsuccessful in delivering global transformational change. A desire to achieve more immediate impacts has led to a restructuring of the Multilateral Development Banks' (MDBs') role in environmental finance and the introduction of many new bilateral and multilateral funding initiatives. The future of GEF remains in the hands of the donor countries, including the United States, which can choose to broaden the mandate and/or strengthen its institutional arrangements or reduce and replace it by other bilateral or multilateral funding mechanisms.

Download or read book Report of the Global Environment Facility to the Conference of the Parties written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book International Climate Change Financing written by Richard K. Lattanzio and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-14 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, Treaty Number: 102-38, 1992), the Copenhagen Accord (2009), and the UNFCCC Cancun Agreements (2010), wherein the higher-income countries pledged jointly up to $30 billion of "fast start" climate financing for lower-income countries for the period 2010-2012, and a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020. The Cancun Agreements also proposed that the pledged funds are to be new, additional to previous flows, adequate, predictable, and sustained, and are to come from a wide variety of sources, both public and private, bilateral and multilateral, including alternative sources of finance.

Download or read book Time to Adapt written by Global Environment Facility and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is a joint effort by the GEF partnership to showcase some of the insights gained from the now substantial portfolio of GEF-funded adaptation projects. The GEF has invested over $1.3 billion to help communities in the developing world adapt to climate change, notably through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) and the Special Climate Change Fund (SCCF).

Download or read book The Least Developed Countries Fund LDCF written by Global Environment Facility and published by Global Environment Facility. This book was released on 2009-08-02 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book 2011 Annual Report written by Global Environment Facility and published by Global Environment Facility. This book was released on 2012-12-14 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Contributing to Global Security written by Global Environment Facility and published by Global Environment Facility. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Climate Change Finance and International Law written by Alexander Zahar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2010, a significant quantity of international climate change finance has begun to reach developing countries. However, the transfer of finance under the international climate change regime – the legal and ethical obligations that underpin it, the constraints on its use, its intended outcomes, and its successes, failures, and future potential – constitutes a poorly understood topic. Climate Change Finance and International Law fills this gap in the legal scholarship. The book analyses the legal obligations of developed countries to financially support qualifying developing countries to pursue globally significant mitigation and adaptation outcomes, as well as the obligations of the latter under the international regime of financial support. Through case studies of climate finance mechanisms and a multitude of other sources, this book delivers a rich legal and empirical understanding of the implementation of states’ climate finance obligations to date. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of international law and policy, international relations, and the maturing field of climate change law.

Download or read book International Financing of Repsonses to Climate Change written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development 2018 written by Collectif and published by OECD. This book was released on 2018-05-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2030 Agenda is a universal, collective responsibility that covers all levels: global, national and territorial. To address global policy challenges in a complex and interconnected world, policy coherence will be key. A more coherent multilateral system will be essential to reconcile and deliver the economic, social and environmental transformations needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The 2018 edition of Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development shows how integrated and coherent policies, supported by strong institutional mechanisms, can contribute to the “Transformation towards sustainable and resilient societies” – the theme of the 2018 United Nations High-level Political Forum (HLPF). The report applies the institutional, analytical and monitoring elements of the “policy coherence for sustainable development” framework to identify challenges and opportunities facing governments as they move to implement the SDGs, both at the national level and collectively at the global level. The report suggests eight building blocks for enhancing policy coherence for sustainable development (SDG Target 17.14), and identifies emerging good institutional practices drawing on recent OECD work, country surveys and voluntary national reviews. It includes 19 country profiles and sets out options for tracking progress on policy coherence for sustainable development at the national level.