The GEF's interventions in the climate change focal area: the contribution to strategies for climate change mitigation and sustainable development

Hennicke, Peter; Borbonus, Sylvia; Woerlen, Christine

doi:10.1016/s0973-0826(08)60560-8

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“…SOURCE: Hennicke, P, S Borbonus and C Woerlen (2007),“The GEF’s interventions in the climate change focal area: the contribution to strategies for climate change mitigation and sustainable development”, Energy for Sustainable Development Vol 11, No 1, page 19.…”

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“… 28. The GEF has approved 634 climate change projects with grants totalling US$ 2.3 billion and co-financing of US$ 14.6 billion; see Hennicke, P, S Borbonusand and C Woerlen (2007), “The GEF’s interventions in the climate change focal area: the contribution to strategies for climate change mitigation and sustainable development”, Energy for Sustainable Development Vol 11, No 1, pages 13–25. …”

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Incorporating cities into the post-2012 climate change agreements

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2012

Environment and Urbanization

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This paper examines the legal, political, technical, economic and financial implications of fitting commitments by cities into the post-2012 climate change agreement. It notes the widespread recognition of the importance of cities and local governments to this agreement and describes the many challenges to including these governments within it − technical, political and economic. There are also the difficulties in reaching agreement on how targets can take into account differences in capacity to act and differences in the sectors where city governments have jurisdiction. As the post-2012 climate change negotiations are already a highly complicated process, the inclusion of sub-national governments into the agreement needs to constitute a "solution" rather than a "new problem". The objective of this paper is to offer a framework and to identify key elements that need to be taken into account when developing a roadmap that seeks empowerment of local governments in the UN post-2012 framework on climate change. KEYWORDS capacity to act / carbon finance / cities / climate change negotiations / cost-effectiveness of climate actions / MRV procedures

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2012

Environment and Urbanization

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“…As of 2004, the GEF had committed more than $1.6 billion for over 500 projects and activities in more than 80 countries, with a total investment value now four to six times greater than at its founding as a pilot programme in 1991 and subsequent restructuring as an independent entity in 1994 (Hennicke et al, 2007). Projects have included financing for the removal of barriers to cost-effective energy efficiency and renewable energy investments, substantial subsidies for several promising climate-friendly technologies (e.g.…”

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Financing the integration of climate change mitigation into development

Miller¹

2008

Climate Policy

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The Bali Action Plan and many other authoritative recent climate reports point to expectations that additional financing will be central to future international agreements to address climate change. Several donor governments have announced commitments to contribute significant additional amounts of funding to support climate change financing in developing countries. However, the context for financing of climate change mitigation is evolving rapidly, with significant implications for climate policy. Two key changes are the dramatic improvement in access to capital in many of the most rapidly growing, large greenhouse-gas-emitting, developing nations and the increasing shift of wealth to oil-exporting countries and Asian central banks. Energy investment is fundamental to development and is capital-intensive, and access to finance is not equally available across countries and for different types of investments. Less carbon-intensive, clean energy investments frequently remain more difficult to finance, due to their smaller scale and innovative nature. Taking climate risk into account as an element of financing is potentially consistent with the investor's need to balance risks with expected returns, but the methodologies, geographical scale, and data required are not yet commensurate with the time periods and project scope typical of financing for developing countries. The policy challenge is in making the financing available commensurate with the scale and short time available for addressing climate change. Most of the likely targeted financing programmes will not be adequate for this purpose. Rather, policy makers need to focus on creating adequate signals that climate change will be an important and continuing factor in government policies for the foreseeable future in ways that will affect investor expectations of relative risk and reward. If this is done, financing will follow. Le plan d'action de Bali et autres rapports notoires récents sur le climat désignent l'attente d'un financement supplémentaire qui serait central aux futurs accords internationaux sur le changement climatique. Plusieurs gouvernements bailleurs ont annoncé leur engagement à contribuer des montants importants pour le soutien au financement du changement climatique dans les pays en développement. Cependant, le contexte de financement de l'atténuation du changement climatique évolue rapidement avec des conséquences importantes pour la politique climatique. Deux changements importants incluent d'une part l'amélioration considérable d'accès au capital dans de nombreuses grandes nations où l'augmentation des émissions de gaz à effet de serre est la plus rapide et, d'autre part, le transfert croissant des richesses vers les pays exportateurs de pétrole et les banques centrales asiatiques. L'investissement énergétique est fondamental au développement et est intensi en capitaux, et l'accès au financement n'est pas accessible à même mesure selon les pays et les différents types d'investissements. L'investissement dans lesénergies propres ou plus so...

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“…Sustainable development creates conditions for developing a system which can be pursued effectively and can be mutually reinforce (Hennicke et al, 2007). Developing countries have different usage patterns of energy savings and efficiency and do not have to follow the example of developed countries.…”

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Sustainable Development through Energy Management: Issues and Priorities in Energy Savings

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2014

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This study aims to study and summarized the some best practices and initiative of corporations towards energy management and its role and contribution to sustainable development. This study also intends to highlight the deficiencies in formulating the energy policies and setting goals in order to improve the living standards of humans and contribution into sustainable development Energy management is one of the contemporary challenge, this study adopts an exploratory approach purely based on existing literature review on energy management, efficiency and best cost reduction methods adopted by organizations and this clearly demonstrate the need to follows a systematical approach to achieve sustainable development. Findings of this study point out that planning for energy management and its utilization is as important as energy is essential for development of sustainable factor like social, economic and environment. Developing smart approach is inevitable to meet the demand of future generations. Achieving noteworthy energy efficiency by management practices makes practical business strategy for any organization and sustainable development is basis on four pillars social, economic, environment and energy sources management.

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The GEF's interventions in the climate change focal area: the contribution to strategies for climate change mitigation and sustainable development

Cited by 9 publications

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Incorporating cities into the post-2012 climate change agreements

Incorporating cities into the post-2012 climate change agreements

Financing the integration of climate change mitigation into development

Sustainable Development through Energy Management: Issues and Priorities in Energy Savings

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