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Summary of Developed Country ‘Fast-Start’ Climate Finance Pledges

November, 2012

WRI’s preliminary analysis on countries’ immediate “fast start” climate finance pledges announced thus far.

STATEMENT: UN Emissions Gap Report Finds Global Action On Climate Change Inadequate

November 21, 2012
Location: WASHINGTON D.C.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The latest Emissions Gap Report, by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the European Climate Foundation, is being released today. The report finds that emissions are now around 14 percent above where they need to be. The gap is on course to be 8 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2020, which is 2 Gt higher than last year’s assessment.

COP 18: Doha

Representatives from around the world are gathering in Doha, Qatar to find common ground in the fight against extreme climate change.

Promises Kept: Ensuring Ambition and Accountability through a Rio +20 “Compendium of Commitments”

Working Paper: March, 2012

In an effort to ensure that the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20) generates meaningful outcomes, governments and other stakeholders increasingly support using the Conference to announce specific and time-bound commitments and to use a “Compendium of Commitments” to hold each other accountable for results. This working paper describes WRI’s review of six past and current commitment-based partnerships, some considered more successful than others, and makes recommendations to improve the credibility of the Compendium concept.

WRI and UNEP Submission to the UNFCCC For Increasing Ambition

By Remi Moncel on March 13, 2012

Read the submission to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on increasing ambition from WRI and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Download the Submission (PDF, 154 Kb)

Assessing Non-Annex I Pledges: Building a Case for Clarification

Working Paper: December, 2011

This paper builds a case for the need to clarify the assumptions, methodologies, and other critical details underlying non-Annex I nationally appropriate mitigation actions (NAMAs). It also explains how common accounting rules for Annex I targets will resolve the lack of clarity surrounding targets for developed countries. It concludes with decisions that can be made in COP17 Durban to formalize both common accounting rules for Annex I targets and a clarification process for non–Annex I actions.

The International Partnership on Mitigation and Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV): Lessons and Next Steps

Working Paper: November, 2011

This paper was originally written as an input into the sixth meeting of the International Partnership on Mitigation and MRV in Panama City in October 2011.

COP 17: Durban

Representatives from around the world are gathering in Durban, South Africa to find common ground in the fight against extreme climate change.

Summary: Workshop on How to Measure, Report, and Verify Climate Finance

By Kirsten Stasio on August 9, 2011

OpenClimateNetwork.org

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An informal summary of WRI’s June 2011 workshop on the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of finance provisions in the Cancun Agreements.

Measurement and Performance Tracking in Developing Countries

Building the capacity of developing countries to track progress towards meeting domestic climate, energy, and development goals.

Have Countries Delivered on Fast-Start Climate Finance?

By Clifford Polycarp on May 20, 2011

As the reporting deadline for 2010 looms, developed countries will need to prove that they are honestly meeting their modest $30 billion commitment.

Transparency of Climate Finance: Results from Cancun and Next Steps

By Kirsten Stasio and Remi Moncel on April 3, 2011

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The UNFCCC Cancun Agreements of December 2010 marked an important step forward for transparency of country actions to respond to climate change. In addition to creating a new standard for the way countries report on their national climate commitments and actions, the agreements mandated advances in the reporting and review of countries’ climate finance contributions.

Seven Elements Developed Countries Should Include in their "Fast-Start" Climate Finance Reports

By Kirsten Stasio on April 3, 2011

Developed countries have collectively pledged USD 30 billion from 2010-2012 to support developing countries’ climate efforts. This pledge, known as “fast-start finance,” was initially made in Copenhagen in 2009, and reiterated in the 2010 Cancun Agreements.

Breathing New Life into Climate Talks in Bangkok

By Jennifer Morgan on March 31, 2011

Negotiators are now figuring out the details that will turn the Cancun Agreements into something that makes a difference on the ground.

Q&A: Transparency in the Cancun Agreements

By Hilary McMahon, Kirsten Stasio, and Kelly Levin on January 13, 2011

Last month’s international climate negotiations in Cancun showed progress on many fronts, especially in ensuring greater transparency in countries’ emissions reporting.

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