Dear colleagues, Please find below the Call for Papers for the work shop “Climate Finance: Taking Stock, Future Directions for Policy and Research”, in Lund, Sweden, 17-18 April 2015. Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 December 2014.
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Jakob Skovgaard
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2015 Lund Climate Finance Workshop:
“Climate Finance: Taking Stock, Future Directions for Policy and Research”
Venue: Lund University, Sweden
17-18 April
Climate finance (understood here as financial flows mobilised by developed
countries to support climate change mitigation and adaptation measures in
developing countries) is increasing in importance both within multilateral
climate negotiations and in terms of the volume of financial flows to
developing countries. In both respects, climate finance is entering a crucial
phase. The period after Cancún has been characterised both by
instiutionalisation — notably through the operationalisation of the UN Green
Climate Fund — but also by a lack of internationally agreed medium-term targets
for climate finance. As negotiations under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) move closer to a longer-term climate
agreement for adoption in Paris in late 2015, parties are discussing different
issues: How to scale up funding towards the collective target of mobilising
$100 billion a year in climate finance by 2020; how to develop accounting rules
to track progress towards this target; how to govern the institutional
architecture for climate finance; and how funding commitments for developing
countries will inform a post-2020 climate agreement.
Regarding the provision of climate finance, the initial fast-start finance
phase (2010-12) has been followed by a period of consolidating and building
upon the experiences from this phase.
At the same time, the academic study of climate finance from a political
science or international relations perspective has been growing slowly but
significantly. While numerous scholars have focused on how to develop sources
and delivery mechanisms for climate finance that are effective, efficient and
that leverage private investment, and how to account for climate finance flows,
fewer scholars have focused on the political and social causes, consequences
and normative implications of the emerging system of climate finance.
Altogether, there is a need for stocktaking and for assessment of where both
climate finance and the study of climate finance are going, and where they
should go. The workshop attempts to address these gaps by bringing together
social science scholars working on climate finance. Below we have listed
questions with which the workshop intends to engage. Empirical, theoretical and
normative contributions addressing these issues are particularly welcome.
• Why does the UNFCCC’s regime output concerning climate finance look the
way it does? Which factors and actors have been most influential in shaping it?
• How do negotiations on climate finance influence the broader dynamics of
multilateral climate negotiations and vice versa? What role could and should
climate finance play under a post-2020 agreement?
• How can we explain the behaviour of various actors (key states, the UNFCCC
secretariat, other international organisations, civil society, private sector)
in the governance of climate finance?
• To what degree and how has the output of the climate finance
negotiations influenced the delivery of climate finance e.g. allocation
priorities, financing modalities and the mix of multilateral and bilateral
funding channels?
• Why do industrialised countries differ on the levels and types climate
finance they deliver? Why do developing countries differ on the levels and
types of climate finance they receive?
• Five years on from the report of the UN High-Level Advisory Group on
Climate Change Financing (AGF), does its assessment still hold that meeting the
$100 billion target will be ‘challenging but feasible’? What factors have
enabled or constrained the establishment of innovative sources of climate
finance?
• How can we assess the institutional architecture for climate finance as
well as the delivery of climate finance in terms of different conceptions of
justice and legitimacy? Have differences between developed and developing
countries on these issues narrowed or widened?
• How can we understand the relationship between climate finance and
traditional development finance? What implications does the conceptualisation
of climate finance as distinct from development finance have?
• How can the case study of climate finance yield insights for broader
theoretical and policy issues, including funding global public goods,
international norms and shifting power dynamics in global economic and
political relations?
The primary output of this workshop will be a special issue in a leading
international journal. Contacts with journal editors are already under way.
Paper proposals must include:
• Name of the paper-giver(s), current position and affiliation.
• Short CV.
• Paper abstract of no more than 300 words.
The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is Monday 1 December
2014. Paper proposals should be sent to
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> under the subject
heading: “Lund Climate Finance Workshop – April 2015”.
Selected participants will be notified on or shortly after 16 December. For
informal queries, please email
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>.
Workshop format and follow-up
The number of participants is limited to 15-20 (presenters and discussants).
Full papers (of up to 8000 words) should be submitted one month before the
event. Participants may be asked to act as discussants or chairs. After the
workshop, the organizers will provide constructive feedback follow-up; strict
deadlines for the final version of the papers will be set.
Travel and Accommodation
Funding is available to cover travel and accommodation a limited number of
participants. Applicants should clearly state that they would like to opt in
for funding when they submit their paper proposal.
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