Blockchain for scaling climate action
The environment and climate sectors require digital transformation to keep up with the changing planetary ecosystem and to coordinate urgent and global action in areas including biodiversity loss, disaster
Measurable, Reportable and Verifiable (MRV)
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The role of forests in climate change mitigation: a discursive-institutional analysis of REDD+ MRV
This dissertation examines the performance of REDD+ MRV in terms of its implementation and institutionalization in developing countries, and the political processes by which such institutionalization occurs.
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Results-based climate finance in practice: delivering climate finance for low-carbon development
Results-based financing is a well-established financing modality in the health and education sectors but it is still in an early stage of deployment in the area of climate change. This report reviews 74
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Carbon tax guide: a handbook for policy makers
Recent years have seen renewed and growing interest in policy instruments that put a price on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the adoption of carbon taxes. While up until 2008 only a handful of
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Mainstreaming gender into climate mitigation activities
Actively engaging women in climate mitigation activities can yield multiple benefits, including improved jobs,better livelihoods, and more equitable revenue flows. Efforts are moving forward to design
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Report on the nationally determined contributions survey
Countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean urgently need financial support to green their power sectors and thereby implement their national climate action plans under the Paris Climate
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Annual status report on Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) 2016
With 184 Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions (NAMAs) under development, and only 19 having secured (partial) funding, a large gap remains at NAMA implementation level. This is one of the findings
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A standardized crediting framework for scaling up energy access programs
This study proposes a Standardized Crediting Framework (SCF) as a new approach to crediting emission reductions for energy access, which goes beyond the current Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) Programme
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Carbon market clubs and the new Paris regime
This paper looks at existing and future climate clubs or club-like arrangements, which bring together groups of national Governments, cities and other sub-national jurisdictions, and business organisations,
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MRV 101: understanding Measurement, Reporting, and Verification of climate change mitigation
When it comes to climate action, effective measurement, reporting and verification (MRV) of emissions and emissions reductions is critical to help countries understand GHG sources and trends, design mitigation
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Monitoring, reporting and verification requirements and implementation costs for climate change mitigation activities: focus on Bangladesh, India, Mexico, and Vietnam
This report describes and estimates implementation costs for key monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) requirements for low emissions development programs requiring MRV systems. MRV system development