Dear all,
The sources and governance of climate finance have been widely debated since the 2009 climate change summit in Copenhagen, when rich countries promised to provide US$ 30 billion in additional climate finance by 2012 and to mobilize US$ 100 billion a year by 2020 to address the mitigation and adaptation needs of developing countries. Have developed countries respected their financial commitments? Which countries have been the main beneficiaries of international climate money? As simple as these questions may seem, answers to them have proved to be highly controversial and have contributed to a continuous erosion of trust between Parties in international climate negotiations. Our article explores the controversies around international climate finance figures. It examines how the lack of internationally agreed modalities to account for climate finance has given rise to a plethora of accounting and reporting practices that leads to widely contrasting statements on climate finance. We show that, despite some gaps, the Paris Agreement’s “enhanced transparency framework” could lead to marked improvements in the way climate finance is accounted and reported. Our paper (with J. Timmons Roberts) is available in open access at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17565529.2017.1410087 I also take this opportunity to share with you two other very recent publications: Ciplet, D., Adams, K., Weikmans, R., & Roberts, J.T. (2018), « The Transformative Capability of Transparency in Global Environmental Governance », Global Environmental Politics, DOI: 10.1162/glep_a_00472, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326056473_The_Transformative_Capability_of_Transparency_in_Global_Environmental_Governance Gewirtzman, J., Natson, S., Richards, J.-A., Hoffmeister, V., Durand, A., Weikmans, R., Huq, S., & Roberts, J.T. (2018), « Financing loss and damage: reviewing options under the Warsaw International Mechanism », Climate Policy, vol. 18, n°8, p. 1076-1086, DOI: 10.1080/14693062.2018.1450724, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323917287_Financing_loss_and_damage_reviewing_options_under_the_Warsaw_International_Mechanism And for those of you who can read French: Weikmans, R. (2018), « Évaluation de l’aide et mobilisation financière internationale autour de l’adaptation au changement climatique », Revue internationale des études du développement, vol. 2, n°234, p. 151-175, DOI: 10.3917/ried.234.0151, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325104811_Evaluation_de_l'aide_et_mobilisation_financiere_internationale_autour_de_l'adaptation_au_changement_climatique Best wishes, Romain __ Dr Romain WEIKMANS Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Centre for Studies on Sustainable Development Lecturer – Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management Department of Geosciences, Environment and Society Institute for Environmental Management and Land Use Planning Centre for Studies on Sustainable Development Postal Address: Avenue Franklin Roosevelt 50 CP130/03, 1050 Brussels, Belgium Office: Avenue Antoine Depage 30, 1050 Brussels, Building D, 6th Floor, DB.6.248 (By Appointment Only) Email: romain.weikm...@ulb.ac.be Webpage: http://igeat.ulb.ac.be/en/equipe/details/person/romain-weikmans/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
