Civil Society Climate Finance Strategy Meeting
On 23-25 February 2010, the World Resources Institute International Financial Flows and Environment project hosted a civil society climate finance strategy session at the Airlie Conference Center in Warrenton, Virginia. The objective of the meeting was to generate a shared understanding of the “climate finance” landscape. Participants came from both developed and developing countries, and from a range of backgrounds in climate change, finance, and global governance.
The discussion focused on three critical aspects of the climate finance challenge:
- where to find the funds necessary to respond on a global scale,
- how to build the institutions that would manage and disburse these funds, and
- how to spend the funds in an effective way.
WRI produced a conference report that provides an overview of the civil society strategy meeting. The report does not capture the entirety of the discussion, nor does it represent a consensus of the participants. Rather, it is intended to introduce a range of views on the critical issues that surround the climate finance debate:
- What is climate finance?
- What are the challenges of financing a global response to climate change?
- Find It: Mobilizing innovative sources to scale up climate finance
- Build It: Creating legitimate institutions for climate finance
- Spend It: Using scarce resources effectively
- Civil society strategies for moving forward
Other Materials
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Background Paper: A background paper outlining the current climate finance landscape was prepared by Jon Sohn of McKenna, Long & Aldridge, LLP for the retreat.
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Background Documents on Innovative Financial Sources for Climate Finance
PowerPoint Presentations
Several participants presented on various topics throughout the retreat. Please find their presentations below:
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Climate Finance: Issues and Opportunities (Jon Sohn, McKenna, Long & Aldridge, LLP)
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International Climate Finance: Scale and Possible Sources (Jorg Haas, Project Catalyst)
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The Financial Crisis (Michael Clark)
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Financial Transaction Taxes (Sarah Anderson, Institute for Policy Studies)
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies (Steve Kretzman, OilChange International)
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The European Investment Bank and Climate Finance (Petr Hlobil, CEE Bankwatch)
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The Asian Development Bank in Climate and Development (Red Constantino, NGO Forum on the ADB)
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The Road Forward from Copenhagen (Alden Meyer, Union for Concerned Scientists)