Items tagged:
Climate investment funds
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Strengthening women’s leadership for climate action
IIED and EnGen Collaborative are working with the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) to enhance women’s climate leadership in state and non-state policymaking and implementation at local and national levels to improve the impact of CIF investments
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Why the ‘climate club’ needs to take on investment rules
This year’s G7 agenda will include Germany’s vision for an ‘international climate club’ to drive urgent collaborative action. The proposal includes measures to step up climate ambition and ensure fairness and efficacy for member and non-member nations. But will this concept commit to reforming the investment treaties that can stymie climate ambition?
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Indigenous Peoples and forest communities are central to tackling the climate crisis – but they need finance
Forests, and the communities who protect and manage them, are critical in tackling climate change and nature loss. From COP26, guest blogger Gustavo Sánchez explains why they can no longer be ignored in the distribution of climate finance and describes a new fund that gets money directly to local forest level
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Climate finance for sustainable development: regional forum
IIED is co-hosting a regional forum with UNDP in Jakarta, Indonesia, to share learning and experience on making sure climate finance works for sustainable development
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Three ways developing nations can close the climate finance gaps
Progressive countries, including some of the world's poorest, are acting to green their economies and build resilience to climate change
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Cambodia to climb climate change readiness ladder
Cambodia is one of several countries that are developing monitoring and evaluation frameworks to track different climate change actions at national as well as local levels
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Ethiopia must rethink finance to achieve 2025 vision
To achieve its goal of being a middle-income climate-resilient green economy, Ethiopia needs new ways to use public funds to promote private investment.
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Scaling up renewable technologies: incremental or transformational change?
As developing countries transition towards low-carbon economies, governments face tough investment choices.
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The private sector’s role in low carbon resilient development
How can the private sector be effectively engaged not just to reduce the long-term impacts of climate change, but also to help communities adapt to the changes they’re experiencing now?
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What does low-carbon resilience look like in Latin America?
Many Latin American countries are showing how the pursuit of low-carbon strategies can create ‘win-win’ scenarios for economic growth and forest protection.
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Understanding the political economy of the Climate Investment Funds
IIED is examining the ideas, resources and ‘power dynamics’ that shape how the Climate Investment Funds achieve development impacts. Together, these factors make up the ‘political economy’, and examining them will help governments and development organisations understand how climate investment funds can best bring about the transformational change the funds aim for.
