ABSTRACT

This book builds on a decade-long experience with mechanisms provided by the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. It discusses the challenges of climate finance in the context of the post-Copenhagen negotiations and provides a long-term outlook of how climate finance in developing countries could develop. Written by climate finance experts from academia, carbon finance businesses and international organisations, the book provides background, firsthand insights, case studies and analysis into the complex subject area of climate finance.

chapter |14 pages

Development cooperation and climate change

Political-economic determinants of adaptation aid

chapter |25 pages

The Adaptation Fund

Towards resilient economies in the developing world

chapter |29 pages

Fast-start finance

Scattered governance, information and programmes

chapter |21 pages

Market mechanisms for adaptation

An aberration or a key source of finance?

chapter |11 pages

Manoeuvring climate finance around the pitfalls

Finding the right policy mix