Download or read book Climate Finance written by Richard B. Stewart and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preventing risks of severe damage from climate change not only requires deep cuts in developed country greenhouse gas emissions, but enormous amounts of public and private investment to limit emissions while promoting green growth in developing countries. While attention has focused on emissions limitations commitments and architectures, the crucial issue of what must be done to mobilize and govern the necessary financial resources has received too little consideration. In Climate Finance, a leading group of policy experts and scholars shows how effective mitigation of climate change will depend on a complex mix of public funds, private investment through carbon markets, and structured incentives that leave room for developing country innovations. This requires sophisticated national and global regulation of cap-and-trade and offset markets, forest and energy policy, international development funding, international trade law, and coordinated tax policy. Thirty-six targeted policy essays present a succinct overview of the emerging field of climate finance, defining the issues, setting the stakes, and making new and comprehensive proposals for financial, regulatory, and governance mechanisms that will enrich political and policy debate for many years to come. The complex challenges of climate finance will continue to demand fresh insights and creative approaches. The ideas in this volume mark out starting points for essential institutional and policy innovations.

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 International Climate Finance written by Erik Haites and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate finance will play an increasingly important role in international efforts to address climate change over the next decade and this book is the first of its kind to provide a complete overview of international climate finance.

Download or read book Confronting the Climate Challenge written by Lawrence Goulder and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-26 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions, climate change will cause substantial damage to the environment and the economy. The scope of the threat demands a close look at the policies capable of reducing the harm. Confronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for evaluating the impacts of a range of U.S. climate-policy options, both for the economy overall and for particular household groups, industries, and regions. Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead focus on four alternative approaches for reducing carbon dioxide emissions: a revenue-neutral carbon tax, a cap-and-trade program, a clean energy standard, and an increase in the federal gasoline tax. They demonstrate that these policies—if designed correctly—not only can achieve emissions reductions at low cost but also can avoid placing undesirable burdens on low-income household groups or especially vulnerable industries. Goulder and Hafstead apply a multiperiod, economy-wide general equilibrium model that is distinct in its attention to investment dynamics and to interactions between climate policy and the tax system. Exploiting the unique features of the model, they contrast the shorter- and longer-term policy impacts and focus on alternative ways of feeding back—or “recycling”—policy-generated revenues to the private sector. Their work shows how careful policy design, including the judicious use of policy-generated revenues, can achieve desired reductions in carbon dioxide emissions at low cost, avoid uneven impacts across household income groups, and prevent losses of profit in the most vulnerable U.S. industries. The urgency of the climate problem demands comprehensive action, and Confronting the Climate Challenge offers important insights that can help elevate policy discussions and spur needed efforts on the climate front.

Download or read book U S Climate Finance written by United States Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is investing $2.7 million in the development of a new climate change program in West Africa. This program will be based on a synthesis of vulnerability assessments and climate change research conducted in West Africa to identify areas that are particularly vulnerable to climate change and have the greatest potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change. Program activities will increase access to science and information for decision-making, improve governance surrounding climate change and land use change, and increase the resilience of targeted communities to climate change impacts.

Download or read book U S Climate Finance written by United States Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is investing $2.7 million in the development of a new climate change program in West Africa. This program will be based on a synthesis of vulnerability assessments and climate change research conducted in West Africa to identify areas that are particularly vulnerable to climate change and have the greatest potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change exists. Program activities will increase access to science and information for decision-making, improve governance surrounding climate change and land-use change, and increase the resilience of targeted communities to climate change impacts.

Download or read book U S Climate Finance written by United States Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is investing $3 million in the African and Latin American Resilience to Climate Change (ARCC) program to develop methodologies and technical tools to assess countries' climate vulnerability and resilience. As a consequence of Africa's high level of vulnerability and relative lack of adaptive capacity, its need for technical support and capacity building is particularly acute. ARCC provides technical, analytical, and project assistance and capacity-building in a way that improves the ability of vulnerable populations to respond to climate challenges and safeguards economic growth. USAID is investing $2.7 million in the development of a new climate change program in West Africa. This program will be based on a synthesis of vulnerability assessments and climate change research conducted in West Africa to identify areas that are particularly vulnerable to climate change and have the greatest potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change. Program activities will increase access to science and information for decision-making, improve governance surrounding climate change and land use change, and increase the resilience of targeted communities to climate change impacts

Download or read book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster written by Bill Gates and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In this urgent, authoritative book, Bill Gates sets out a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. Bill Gates has spent a decade investigating the causes and effects of climate change. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, he has focused on what must be done in order to stop the planet's slide to certain environmental disaster. In this book, he not only explains why we need to work toward net-zero emissions of greenhouse gases, but also details what we need to do to achieve this profoundly important goal. He gives us a clear-eyed description of the challenges we face. Drawing on his understanding of innovation and what it takes to get new ideas into the market, he describes the areas in which technology is already helping to reduce emissions, where and how the current technology can be made to function more effectively, where breakthrough technologies are needed, and who is working on these essential innovations. Finally, he lays out a concrete, practical plan for achieving the goal of zero emissions—suggesting not only policies that governments should adopt, but what we as individuals can do to keep our government, our employers, and ourselves accountable in this crucial enterprise. As Bill Gates makes clear, achieving zero emissions will not be simple or easy to do, but if we follow the plan he sets out here, it is a goal firmly within our reach.

Download or read book U S Climate Finance written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $2.6 million to support the Government of Georgia's efforts to formulate and implement a Low Emission Development Strategy (LEDS) and reduce greenhouse gas emissions as compared to a business-as-usual scenario. The program will promote lower energy use by developing energy efficiency standards for buildings and eco-labeling standards, and by implementing municipal projects to stimulate demand for the deployment and use of alternative energy sources (such as solar, hydro, and biofuels) and energy efficiency technologies. In addition, the program will assist Georgia's largest municipalities in preparing Sustainable Energy Action Plans to meet commitments established under the European Union Covenant of Mayors process, which seeks to lower the greenhouse gas emissions of cities by at least 20 percent.

Download or read book U S Climate Finance written by U S Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is providing $10.4 million that will leverage an additional $44.5 million in co-financing for the Introduction of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Measures in Design, Construction and Operation of Social Housing and Community Equipment project. The project, implemented by the Inter-American Development Bank, will establish a regulatory framework and technological guidelines for the design, construction, and operation of social housing in order to reduce energy demand and related greenhouse gas emissions from their construction. The United States contributed $60 million to the GEF for climate change programming in 2012.

Download or read book U S Climate Finance Serbia written by U.s. Department of State and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is investing $1 million in the Europe & Eurasia Low Emission Strategies and Clean Energy Development Program to encourage clean energy investment, improve energy security, and promote regional energy market development, focusing on Albania, Macedonia, Moldova and Serbia. In these countries, this work will support the implementation of the Enhancing Capacity for Low Emission Development Strategies (EC-LEDS) program, a whole-of-government program that supports partner countries' efforts to pursue low-emission, climate-resilient economic development. USAID will provide technical assistance to relevant ministries, utilities, regulators, and transmission system operators to build capacity for developing Low Emission Development Strategies (LEDS) and to harmonize policy, legal, and regulatory frameworks in the region, supporting an integrated and transparent regional energy market that will encourage clean energy investment and lower greenhouse gas emissions. The program will strengthen partner country capacity to evaluate low emission policy options, improve national greenhouse gas inventories, and adopt greenhouse gas monitoring, reporting, and verification procedures consistent with international standards.

Download or read book Statehouse and Greenhouse written by Barry G. Rabe and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-02-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No environmental issue triggers such feelings of hopelessness as global climate change. Many areas of the world, including regions of the United States, have experienced a wide range of unusually dramatic weather events recently. Much climate change analysis forecasts horrors of biblical proportions, such as massive floods, habitat loss, species loss, and epidemics related to warmer weather. Such accounts of impending disaster have helped trigger extreme reactions, wherein some observers simply dismiss global climate change as, at the very worst, a minor inconvenience requiring modest adaptation. It is perhaps no surprise, therefore, that an American federal government known for institutional gridlock has accomplished virtually nothing in this area in the last decade. Policy inertia is not the story of this book, however. Statehouse and Greenhouse examines the surprising evolution of state-level government policies on global climate change. Environmental policy analyst Barry Rabe details a diverse set of innovative cases, offering detailed analysis of state-level policies designed to combat global warming. The book explains why state innovation in global climate change has been relatively vigorous and why it has drawn so little attention thus far. Rabe draws larger potential lessons from this recent flurry of American experience. Statehouse and Greenhouse helps to move debate over global climate change from bombast to the realm of what is politically and technically feasible.

Download or read book Managing Climate Risk in the U S Financial System written by Leonardo Martinez-Diaz and published by U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission . This book was released on 2020-09-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication serves as a roadmap for exploring and managing climate risk in the U.S. financial system. It is the first major climate publication by a U.S. financial regulator. The central message is that U.S. financial regulators must recognize that climate change poses serious emerging risks to the U.S. financial system, and they should move urgently and decisively to measure, understand, and address these risks. Achieving this goal calls for strengthening regulators’ capabilities, expertise, and data and tools to better monitor, analyze, and quantify climate risks. It calls for working closely with the private sector to ensure that financial institutions and market participants do the same. And it calls for policy and regulatory choices that are flexible, open-ended, and adaptable to new information about climate change and its risks, based on close and iterative dialogue with the private sector. At the same time, the financial community should not simply be reactive—it should provide solutions. Regulators should recognize that the financial system can itself be a catalyst for investments that accelerate economic resilience and the transition to a net-zero emissions economy. Financial innovations, in the form of new financial products, services, and technologies, can help the U.S. economy better manage climate risk and help channel more capital into technologies essential for the transition. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5247742

Download or read book U S Climate Finance written by U S Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is investing $5.3 million in the Coastal Community Adaptation Program (C-CAP) to help reduce the vulnerability of coastal communities in the Pacific Islands region to the impacts of climate change. C-CAP will strengthen community climate resilience through a range of activities, including: building local capacity for disaster risk reduction and preparedness, and integrating climate resilient policies and practices into long-term land use plans and building standards. The program is expected to benefit approximately 90 communities in the Pacific Islands. Up to twelve Pacific Island nations will participate in this program: Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu.

Download or read book U S Climate Finance written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As part of a larger economic growth and environment program, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is providing $3.8 million to work with the government, local businesses, and key conservation institutions in Honduras to improve management practices in protected forest areas and to strengthen national policies related to adaptation to climate change. Honduras' National Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy identifies climate change as a specific threat to biologically-sensitive ecosystems such as protected areas. Project activities will help the government and its management partners, including local communities, design and carry out ecosystem protection and resiliency measures in ten targeted protected areas. USAID will also strengthen local community capacity to respond and communicate in the face of climate change-related disasters such as floods and droughts. The program will also address threats to protected forests by supporting ecological impact monitoring, improved environmental enforcement, and better income opportunities for local businesses, thereby mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

Download or read book U S Climate Finance written by U S Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is investing $1.5 million in two activities in the Black Sea region to improve regional work on electricity transmission, renewable energy, and energy efficiency. One of these, the Black Sea Regulatory Initiative, is connecting regulators from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine with U.S. regulators from the Organization of Midwest States. This initiative is working with regional regulators to develop renewable energy guidelines, promote harmonized regulatory practices, and define their role in promoting price reforms and energy efficiency. The other activity is a new program to encourage a regional approach to electric transmission system planning, strengthen operations within regional transmission organizations, and develop a framework for sound investment in the transmission system. This program will reduce energy losses, integrate renewable energy projects into the power grid and facilitate cross-border trade in clean energy. Collectively, these activities will help create a positive enabling environment for low emission development and contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in the region.

Download or read book U S Climate Finance written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of State and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is investing $3.2 million in the Climate, Nature and Communities program to build resilience to climate change impacts and promote low emission development to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from land-use change. The program will help conserve biodiversity, improve natural resource management, and reduce risks from climate related natural disasters. The program will also help communities address acute natural resource protection issues such as illegal logging, wildfires, and the impact of narco-trafficking in biologically important areas in order to improve sustainable land use and reduce land use-related greenhouse gas emissions. The program also will collaborate with the government of Guatemala on the natural resource and biodiversity aspects of its low emission development strategy (LEDS).