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Blending Climate Finance Through National Climate Funds: A Guidebook for the Design and Establishment of National Funds to Achieve Climate Change Priorities
Submitted by andrea on Mon, 2011-09-26 08:08Year:
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This guidebook is part of a series of manuals, guidebooks and toolkits that draws upon the experience and information generated by the United Nations Development Programme’s (UNDP) support for climate change adaptation and mitigation projects in some 140 countries over the past decade.
Confronting Climate Change and Land Degradation in Viet Nam Increasing Finance for Sustainable Land Management
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The Asia and Pacific Division of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD ) and the Asia and Pacific Desk of the Global Mechanism (GM ) of the United Nation’s Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD ) have been working together to articulate adaptation and mitigation responses to climate change as a means of strengthening sustainability of project interventions and to mobilize supplementary funding from climate change financing mechanisms to scale up pro-poor sustainable land management (SLM) activities.
Viet Nam is highly vulnerable to climate change.
Why Financing Climate Adaptation is Important
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Reuters
By Emily Farnworth
The chairman of Swiss Re Americas Holding kicked off a lively discussion at Climate Week NYºC 2010 about the need to elevate adaptation issues within the debate on international policy and finance.
Walter Bell's comments spurred the conversation in the panel session called "Risk and Resiliency," which was hosted by Swiss Re and international NGO The Climate Group.
AfDB Organizes Roundtable on Climate Change Financing for Africa
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Climate-L.org
The African Development Bank (AfDB) organized a roundtable on African Perspectives on the issues before the UN High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing, where participants highlighted that, for most African nations, the overwhelming challenge posed by climate change is how to adapt to its adverse impacts.
The roundtable took place in Tunis, Tunisia, from 21-22 September 2010, and analyzed the issues before by the UN High Level Advisory Group.
EU clarifies climate aid plan
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EURACTIV.COM
The EU last week (3 June) took the first step to bring clarity to international climate financing pledges by outlining at the Bonn climate talks how it intends to implement its funding commitment to help developing countries fight global warming.
