Download or read book The Political Economy of Climate Finance in Brazil written by Ursula Flossmann-Kraus and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating institutions and donor requirements to successfully access international climate finance is challenging for many countries. Establishing national climate funds can be a way to meet these challenges, ensuring the targeted use of funds and strengthening ownership. This book examines the establishment of two national climate funds in Brazil, the Low Carbon Agriculture Programme and the Amazon Fund. Their establishment must be seen against the background of a drastic shift in Brazilian climate policy, enabled by discursive changes, during the administration of the Workers' Party 2003 - 2016. Dr. Ursula Flossmann-Kraus is a climate finance specialist and has led and implemented projects and programmes for GIZ and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Download or read book Political Economies of Energy Transition written by Kathryn Hochstetler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that economic concerns about jobs, costs, and consumption, rather than climate change, are likely to drive energy transition in developing countries.
Download or read book Brazil and Climate Change written by Eduardo J. Viola and published by Routledge Is. This book was released on 2018 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Climate change is increasingly a part of the human experience. As the problem worsens, the cooperative dilemma that the issue carries has become evident: climate change is a complex problem that systematically gets insufficient answers from the international system.This book offers an assessment of Brazil’s role in the global political economy of climate change. The authors, Eduardo Viola and Matías Franchini expertly review and answer the most common and widely cited questions on whether and in which way Brazil is aggravating or mitigating the climate crisis, including:?Is it the benign, cooperative, environmental power that the Brazilian government claims it is? Why was it possible to dramatically reduce deforestation in the Amazon (2005-2010) and, more recently, was there a partial reversion??The book provides an accessible—and much needed—introduction to all those studying the challenges of the international system in the Anthropocene. Through a thorough analysis of Brazil in perspective vis a vis other emerging countries, this book provides an engaging introduction and up to date assessment of the climate reality of Brazil and a framework to analyze the climate performance of major economies, both on emission trajectory and policy profile: the climate commitment approach. Brazil and Climate Change is essential reading for all students of Environmental Studies, Latin American Studies, International Relations and Comparative Politics."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Climate Finance in Brazil written by Ursula Flossmann-Kraus and published by LIT Verlag. This book was released on 2023-03-17 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating institutions and donor requirements to successfully access international climate finance is challenging for many countries. Establishing national climate funds can be a way to meet these challenges, ensuring the targeted use of funds and strengthening ownership. This book examines the establishment of two national climate funds in Brazil, the Low Carbon Agriculture Programme and the Amazon Fund. Their establishment must be seen against the background of a drastic shift in Brazilian climate policy, enabled by discursive changes, during the administration of the Workers' Party 2003 - 2016.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Lula s Brazil written by Pedro Chadarevian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Political Economy of Lula's Brazil describes the social, political and economic transformations that led to increased interest in the tropical giant at the start of the 21st century. This volume demonstrates that Brazil's rise was the result of the adoption of heterodox economic policies, while also highlighting the obstacles to choosing an egalitarian development path in Latin America. Adopting an innovative perspective in terms of methodology and interpretation, contributors from Brazil, Latin America and France follow a non-dogmatic critical approach in order to explain the institutional changes that made a new cycle of development possible in Brazil. The authors also argue that the evolution of Brazil, following the implementation of leftist policies, paradoxically gave birth to several economic, political and environmental contradictions. They contend that these contradictions, including the falling rate of profit linked to the full employment of resources; the redistributive process seen as a menace by the conservative middle classes; and the growing intervention of the state in the different markets, eventually led to the end of the early 21st century development cycle. Providing clues to understanding the contradictory and painful path towards the development of semi-industrialised countries, this book will interest students and academics in the fields of economics, sociology, history and political science. The story it tells may also interest all those searching for independent analysis of the successes and failures of Lula's Brazil.
Download or read book The Political Economy of National Climate Funds written by Rishikesh Bhandary and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this dissertation is on how developing countries mobilize financial resources to support actions on climate change. The existing literature has largely focused on how the preferences of donors shape financial flows and has not paid enough attention to how developing countries exercise their agency in determining how and under what conditions they receive international climate finance. This dissertation analyzes how host country governments negotiate and identifies the factors that constrain the exercise of that agency. This dissertation finds that the credibility of government commitment best explains how developing countries mobilize climate finance. Negotiating capital (charismatic leadership and salience), the policy context, and actor preferences help to explain finance mobilization. Closely tied to the question of the quantity of finance is the design of the delivery vehicle that is used to channel it. Therefore, the institutional design features of the funds have received a lot of attention in this dissertation. These features include: selecting the fund manager (the trustee of the fund), the fund's governing arrangement (the board), scope (what the fund focuses on), and the financing instruments at the fund's disposal. The institutional design features vary across contexts and pose different levels of sovereignty costs to the host country. This dissertation finds that host governments seek to minimize sovereignty costs they incur even if this means increasing the transaction costs associated with the fund. This finding is in contrast with the scholarship on the design of international institutions that expects design features to reflect the maximization of efficiency gains, such as reductions in transaction costs. The cases here suggest that the actors maximize control and reduce sovereignty costs even if that means incurring higher amounts of transaction costs. Four national climate funds form the empirical core of this study. Bangladesh's experience illustrates how a country that tried hard to bargain with donors was hamstrung by the governance risks posed by its administrative and budgetary processes. Even though the government pre-empted negotiations and designed its own fund, donors were too reluctant to use it as the delivery vehicle. Despite having strong negotiating capital, it had to concede sovereignty costs by accepting the World Bank as the trustee of the fund. The lack of existing data also hampered credibility as it created confusion on how the fund was really adding value. Brazil was in a strong negotiating position vis-à-vis Norway. As it already had policies under implementation, with data that could be monitored, it enjoyed low sovereignty costs in the design of the Amazon Fund. As the original policy to control deforestation had the buy-in of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, which was also the lead in the negotiations with Norway, it did not suffer from implementation problems. As new governments followed, the gains achieved and institutionalized during the Lula and Dilma presidencies have been reversed. Former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's vision for low carbon growth in Ethiopia gained the interest of a few donors such as the UK and Norway. Initially, the emphasis on climate change, however, was not widely shared amongst Ethiopia's donors. Therefore, the CRGE Facility did not attract substantial amounts of finance at the outset. The fund design reflected the concerns of both sides. UNDP was asked to manage one window of the fund while the Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation housed the government-managed window. The government had to allow donors to earmark their contributions if they routed their finance through the government-managed window. In effect, this meant setting up parallel governance and reporting frameworks for each earmarked contribution, thereby increasing transaction costs. While the CRGE strategy and vision are officially under implementation, the inability of the government to provide data and indicators has meant that donors remain unconvinced about how much implementation is actually taking place. In Indonesia, former President Yudhoyono's leadership and Indonesia's salience in terms of deforestation-related emissions provided the government with much negotiating leverage. Indonesia did not have the data or the policies in place at the time of negotiations with Norway. Therefore, it was subject to input-based financing instruments, with specified milestones and targets, until it was ready for results-based financing. The lack of policy implementation, at the time of fund design, also meant that policy rivalry between the lead negotiators (President's Office) and the main target of the fund (the Ministry of Forests) impeded implementation. It took Indonesia nearly a decade before it claimed payments for avoided deforestation from Norway.
Download or read book Decadent Developmentalism written by Matthew M. Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complementarities between political and economic institutions have kept Brazil in a low-level economic equilibrium since 1985.
Download or read book Climate Change in Brazil written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Feeling the Heat written by Ian Bailey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-02-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To avoid uncontrolled climate change, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be brought under control by major emitters outside the affluent West. The authors investigate the political obstacles in BRIC countries and what their governments could do to strengthen climate policies without incurring serious political damage.
Download or read book Enterprise Size Financing Patterns and Credit Constraints in Brazil written by Anjali Kumar and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study investigates the importance of firm size with respect to access to credit, relative to firm performance and other factors which may affect creditworthiness - such as management education, location, and the industrial sector to which the firm belongs." --Résumé de l'éditeur.
Download or read book Brazil as an Economic Superpower written by Lael Brainard and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Brazil, the confluence of strong global demand for the country's major products, global successes for its major corporations, and steady results from its economic policies is building confidence and even reviving dreams of grandeza—the greatness that has proven elusive in the past. Even as the current economic crisis tempers expectations of the future, the trends identified in this book suggest that Brazil will continue its path toward becoming a leading economic power in the future. Once seen as an economic backwater, Brazil now occupies key niches in energy, agriculture, service industries, and even high technology. Yet Latin America's largest nation still struggles with endemic inequality issues and deep-seated ambivalence toward global economic integration. Scholars and policy practitioners from Brazil, the United States, and Europe recently gathered to investigate the present state and likely future of the Brazilian economy. This important volume is the timely result. In Brazil as an Economic Superpower? international authorities focus on five key topics: agribusiness, energy, trade, social investment, and multinational corporations. Their analyses and expertise provide not only a unique and authoritative picture of the Brazilian economy but also a useful lens through which to view the changing global economy as a whole.
Download or read book Handbook on International Political Economy written by Ralph Pettman and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International political economy (IPE) is a highly complex discipline, drawing not only from the fields of politics and economics, but also those as varied as philosophy, history and anthropology. Now widely accepted as a key dimension to contemporary world affairs, it is no longer possible to talk about international relations without talking about production and distribution, finance and investment, as well as consumption and trade. To ensure that our understanding of these topics is relevant to today's world, there is a constant need to revisit and challenge what is known about these topics. Besides being a comprehensive account of international political economy for academic study, this extensive collection also highlights salient issues that scholars, analysts and state leaders are most concerned with in today's world. Amongst these are issues concerning the rise of China and India as new economic superpowers, stability in the EU's political economy, the viability of the existing multilateral system of global trade, recent financial crises, as well as the impact of globalisation and marketisation on the world's workers and our physical environment. With contributions from prominent academics such as Susan K Sell (George Washington University, D.C.) and Geoffrey Blainey (Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne), this volume makes for both a stimulating and thought-provoking read.
Download or read book The Politics of Climate Finance in Brazil written by Ursula Flossmann-Kraus and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon written by Joana Castro Pereira and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an analysis of the recent governance of the Amazon in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia with a particular focus on deforestation processes, demonstrating that current policies and political and socioeconomic dynamics in the four countries are risking the forest’s resilience. The authors examine and compare Amazonian politics and policies under different administrations, concentrating on the main actors, policies and dynamics that have affected the region, as well as on the institutional and political environment in which deforestation processes were embedded in different periods. Essentially, the book makes an analytical contribution towards a better understanding of the political, economic and social challenges confronting conservation policy in the Amazonian countries. Climate Change and Biodiversity Governance in the Amazon: At the Edge of Ecological Collapse? is essential reading for students and researchers in the fields of environmental studies and sustainability, Latin American studies, political science and international relations, as well as for policymakers and practitioners working in conservation and development.
Download or read book Finance Development December 2019 written by International Monetary Fund. Communications Department and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2019-12-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue of Finance & Development looks at the economic and financial impact of climate policy choices. It points to concrete solutions that offer growth opportunities, driven by technological innovation, sustainable investment, and a dynamic private sector. The private sector can stop supporting or subsidizing industries and activities that damage the planet and instead invest in sustainable development. Governments can roll out policies to fight climate change and the destruction of nature. The paper highlights that technological change and innovations are central to longer-term efforts to mitigate climate change by developing alternatives to fossil fuels. A new, sustainable financial system is under construction. It is funding the initiatives and innovations of the private sector and amplifying the effectiveness of governments’ climate policies—it could even accelerate the transition to a low-carbon economy. The Bank of England’s latest survey finds that almost three-quarters of banks are starting to treat the risks from climate change like other financial risks—rather than viewing them simply as a corporate social responsibility. Banks have begun to consider the most immediate physical risks to their business models—from the exposure of mortgage books to flood risk to the impact of extreme weather events on sovereign risk.
Download or read book The Political Economy of Agricultural Booms written by Mariano Turzi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth analysis of the political economy of soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, by identifying the dominant private and public actors and control mechanisms that have given rise to a corporate-driven, vertically integrated system of regionalized agricultural production in the Southern Cone of South America. The current agricultural boom surrounding soybean production has been aided by aggressive new agro-technologies, including biotechnology, leading to massive organizational changes in the agricultural sector and a significant rise in the power of special interest groups and corporations. Despite having similar initial production conditions, the pattern of economic activity surrounding soybean production in Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, continues to be largely determined by the needs of the multinational corporations involved, rather than national considerations of comparative advantage. The author uses these findings to argue that the new international model of agricultural production empowers chemical and trading multinational companies over national governments.
Download or read book The Economisation of Climate Change written by Jakob Skovgaard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The effort to address climate change cuts across a wide range of non-environmental actors and policy areas, including international economic institutions such as the Group of Twenty (G20), International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). These institutions do not tend to address climate change so much as an environmental issue, but as an economic one, a dynamic referred to as 'economisation'. Such economisation can have profound consequences for how environmental problems are addressed. This book explores how the G20, IMF, and OECD have addressed climate finance and fossil fuel subsidies, what factors have shaped their specific approaches, and the consequences of this economisation of climate change. Focusing on the international level, it is a valuable resource for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of politics, political economy and environmental policy.
