Role of Capacity Building in Enhancing Climate Finance Governance and Transparency: Experiences from Bangladesh
Capacity Building Workshop for Journalist on Climate Finance and Budgeting
Capacity Building Workshop for Journalist on Climate Finance and Budgeting at Nascent Gardenia. Funded By ACT
Climate Finance course for Helvetas in Zurich
Climate Finance course for Helvetas in Zurich , Switzerland March 5 to 10
2017 is the tipping point for loss and damage from climate change
Is it time to make climate polluters pay for the losses and the damage they cause? Even before we come to end of the year we already know that 2017 will be one of the warmest years on record and we have seen a succession of extreme weather events around the world, including typhoons in the Pacific and hurricanes in …
ICCCAD Organizing Second Regional Short Course on Climate Finance
ICCCAD organizing the Second Regional Climate Finance Course in partnership with International Institute on Environment and Development (IIED) and Action on Climate Today (ACT) and UNDP’s Bangkok Regional Hub, with the support of UK Aid, and the Government of Sweden. This course is aimed at government officials from developing countries, especially from ministries of finance and planning, as well as representatives …
Time to go back to the drawing board
ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE Apart of the historic Paris Agreement on Climate Change, agreed in 2015, was the pledge by developed countries to provide a minimum of USD 100 billion a year from 2020 onwards, to assist developing countries tackle climate change through both mitigation and adaptation. They also created a new funding body called the Green Climate Fund (GCF) …
Getting climate finance to where it is needed most
Over the last decade, developed countries have contributed tens of billions of US dollars in climate finance to developing countries to support both mitigation actions (to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases that cause climate change), as well as adaptation (to tackle the adverse impacts of climate change). Most of the funding has gone to support mitigation actions in a few …
As the climate changes, will Bangladesh change too?
As the climate changes, Bangladesh is also changing. This is most obvious in terms of biophysical changes — stronger hurricanes, harder rainfall and more salinity — but it is also affecting the government’s budget, institutional systems, and the way it manages its finances. The question is as climate change accelerates, can Bangladesh change fast enough? There are many changes from …
