Monday 26/4: Climate adaptation and finance

(9-10) Watch the recorded lecture here

10–11 Q&A: RW

Zoom link NEW: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/68862149468?pwd=MnR2WFcybERHeHNQQy9zTUZRaE9Edz09
(for some obscure reason the previously announced link didn't work so please use the above instead!)

This is an opportunity to ask questions on the recorded lecture or comment and discuss the content.

Financing climate adaptation is one of the most contentious issues in the international climate negotiations, since it involves large sums of money but also ethical and political aspects. Who has the obligation to provide finance? How can we make sure that finance is “additional” to previously promised aid? How can new sources of finance be established? What about tax havens, currency transaction taxes, global taxes etc?

Readings:

G 20 (2011): Mobilizing Climate Finance, http://www.imf.org/external/np/g20/pdf/110411c.pdf (Links to an external site.)

UNEP (2011): Innovative Climate Finance,

https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/8037/UNEP_Innovative_climate_finance_final.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y

World Economic Forum (2014): Climate Adaptation: Seizing the Challenge, > http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GAC/2014/WEF_GAC_ClimateChange_AdaptationSeizingChallenge_Report_2014.pdf (Links to an external site.)