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Climate finance, carbon market mechanisms and finance “blending” as instruments to support NDC achievement under the Paris Agreement
Strand, Jon - 2019
This paper considers the impacts of "finance blending" whereby climate finance is added to international carbon markets for offset trading. The paper first discusses climate finance and the carbon market as free-standing finance solutions by high-income countries to increase mitigation in...
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Diversification and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World : Climate Strategies for Fossil Fuel-Dependent Countries
Peszko, Grzegorz - 2020
This book is the first stocktaking of what the decarbonization of the world economy means for fossil fuel+ "dependent … and Cooperation in a Decarbonizing World identifies multiple strategies that fossil fuel+ "dependent countries can pursue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644290
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Low Carbon Cities : Exploring New Crediting Approaches to Deliver Carbon and Climate Finance
World Bank Group - 2018
urban dwellers will live in Africa and Asia. The world's urban areas wereresponsible for around 70 percent of greenhouse gas … (GHG) emissions in 2013, and that numbercould grow by 50 percent by 2050 if current trends continue. In 2015, world leaders …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012645639
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Carbon Markets Under the Kyoto Protocol : Lessons Learned for Building an International Carbon Market Under the Paris Agreement
World Bank Group - 2018
This working paper commissioned by the World Bank Carbon Markets and Innovation Practice (GCCMI) critically examines …
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Addressing Climate Change in Transport : Volume 1: Pathway to Low-Carbon Transport
Oh, Jung Eun - 2019
Climate change is set to have profound effects on Vietnam's development. With nearly sixty percent of its land area and seventy percent of population at risk of multiple natural hazards, Vietnam globally is among the most vulnerable countries to both chronic and extreme events. At the same time,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646602
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Addressing Climate Change in Transport : Volume 2: Pathway to Resilient Transport
Oh, Jung Eun - 2019
Climate change is set to have profound effects on Vietnam's development. With nearly sixty percent of its land area and seventy percent of population at risk of multiple natural hazards, Vietnam globally is among the most vulnerable countries to both chronic and extreme events. At the same time,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646603
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Accelerating and Innovating Climate Action : A Retrospective of the World Bank's Experience with Select Climate and Carbon Trust Funds
World Bank Group - 2020
This retrospective examines how the World Bank's strategic use of climate-related trust funds has enabled it to play an … finance, with a focus on the pioneering role of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and World Bank carbon funds in spurring … climate change mitigation activities, this report draws lessons and recommendations on how the World Bank and the wider …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647409
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Transformational climate finance : donors' willingness to support deep and transformational greenhouse gas emissions reductions in lower-income countries
Strand, Jon - 2020
This paper uses simple analytical models to study high-income donor countries' willingness to pay to supply mitigation finance to low-income countries; how this depends on modality for finance supply; and how it changes as the global greenhouse gas mitigation agenda moves forward. The paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012241188
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Biogas : Clean Energy Access with Low-Cost Mitigation of Climate Change
Somanathan, E. - 2015
With data from the nearly 6,000 households in the Nepal Living Standards Survey of 2010-11, this paper finds that the mean reduction in household firewood collection associated with use of a biogas plant for cooking is about 1,100 kilograms per year from a mean of about 2,400 kilograms per year....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245994
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Assessment of Net Mitigation in the Context of International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Control Mechanisms
Strand, Jon - 2016
This paper discusses the scope for market mechanisms, already established for greenhouse gas mitigation in Annex 1 countries that ratified the Kyoto Protocol, for implementing "net mitigation," defined here as mitigation beyond Annex 1 countries' formal mitigation requirements under the Kyoto...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246382