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| A contribution on 2012-05-11 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Finance Sources: LDC Press Release Bonn- 11 May 2012
The least developed countries (LDCs) today expressed
their increasing concern about the direction that discussions on climate finance might take in the negotiations.
The issue was discussed during the LDC preparatory meeting that has been
taking place in Bonn over the last two days ahead of the official climate
negotiations on Monday. The chair of the group, Pa Ousman Jarju, said there was cincreasing concern from LDC’s that the developed world was not taking its
financial commitments seriously
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| A contribution on 2011-10-19 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Transitional Committee Report of the Transitional Committee for the Design of the Green Climate Fund to the seventeenth session of the Conference of the Parties
TRANSITIONAL COMMITTEE Fourth meeting
18 October 2011
TC-4/3
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| A contribution on 2011-10-14 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Disbursement Modalities Submission to the Transitional Committee by Ms Carol Mwape (TC member Zambia)on enhanced direct access:
Revised draft language for the draft Instrument of the Green Climate Fund
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| A contribution on 2011-08-18 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Transitional Committee Submission to the Transitional Committee on the issue of Thematic Funding Windows (Workstreams II & III)
This submission has two aims. In the first instance, it is to synthesise some of the reasons that have been put forward as to why, at the scale envisaged in the Cancun Agreements, the climate finance regime in general, and the Green Climate Fund, in particular, will have to involve a fundamental devolution of decision making to National Funding Entities (NFEs).
The second aim is to give an idea of what such NFEs might look like by reference to an existing national trust fund −the Bangladeshi Climate Change Resilience Fund − and a recent proposal for a Pakistani National Green Climate Fund
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| A contribution on 2011-08-12 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Standing Committee At Cancun, the COP decided to establish a Standing Committee to assist it in exercising its functions with respect to the Financial Mechanism of the Convention. But it left open how exactly this should be done. The ecbi Policy Brief by Farrukh Khan and Benito Müller begins by looking at the COP functions which the Standing Committee is meant to assist considering, in particular, how such assistance could enhance the implementation of the Financial Mechanism. Based on this analysis, the brief puts forward detailed recommendations concerning the functions and the form of the Standing Committee.
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| A contribution on 2011-07-10 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Transitional Committee This submission is based on the experience we have gathered over the past years in following the development of the Adaptation Fund. It is not meant to be a full consideration or discussion of all aspects around the development of the Adaptation Fund, which in our view has made substantial and much appreciated progress over the years. It provides reflections on some key aspects from a civil society point of view and lessons learnt therein that may be relevant to the work of the Transitional Committee and the design of the Green Climate Fund.
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| A contribution on 2011-06-09 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Innovative Financing Conclusions:
Currently, negotiations at the UN Climate Green Fund are moving very slowly, and hope that major progress will occur before Durban is fading. The German federal government has an extraordinary opportunity to seize the moral and political high ground on global climate finance and policy. Germany can take the first crucial step by transferring its Green Flight Tax revenues into the UN Green Climate Fund, and use the political capital and credibility gained by this first-mover advantage to insist on administrative and accountability measures designed to ensure the monies raised are well spent on technical measures that achieve real results.
Shifting less-developed countries onto a low-carbon development path is a necessary outcome if dangerous climate changes are to be avoided. This outcome is profoundly in the interests of Germany and Europe, yet few developing countries are likely to choose clean-tech over cheaper brown-tech without technical and financial assistance from the industrialised North. Germany is the most financially sound and economically vibrant nation in the industrialised North, and is making increasingly strong commitments to a green-technology transition. Now is the right time for Germany to assert leadership and make the first move in establishing a global climate finance mechanism.
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| A contribution on 2011-06-08 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Transitional Committee The role of non-governmental actors
Submission with regard to Work Stream II, Sub-work stream 2
Submitted by the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies through the UNFCCC constituency of Research and Independent NGOs
8 June 2011
Conclusions
A key shortcoming of most global funding mechanisms is that the people whose lives are most affected by the funded activities, most often have the least say. The GCF should be willing to rectify this grave and costly omission (the success of the funded activities has suffered as a result), by going back to the design board when defining the role of non-government actors, instead of relying on a faulty template.
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| A contribution on 2011-05-19 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Transitional Committee Submission of views regarding the questions for the first technical workshop of the Transitional Committee suggested by the co-facilitators of work stream I
Submitted through the UNFCCC constituency of Research and Independent NGOs
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| A contribution on 2011-05-11 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Transitional Committee On April 28 and 29, the first meeting of the Transitional Committee (TC) took place in Mexico-City. The TC emerged from the climate summit in Cancún and is tasked to develop the details of the new Green Climate Fund (GCF). The GCF is expected to become the central international instrument to finance the rainforests' and climate's protection as well as to finance adaption to climate change. The main goal is to compile proposals until the next climate summit in Durban in December 2011, which need to be sufficiently comprehensive so that the GCF can be filled with resources and start its work.
This GermanWatch briefing paper elucidates the main background of the TC and the GCF and summarises the most important discussions and decisions taken at the TC's first meeting. An official report on the meeting prepared by the UNFCCC Secretariat is expected to be published soon.
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| A contribution on 2011-04-13 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Transitional Committee Ahead of the first meeting of the UNFCCC Green Climate Fund Transitional Committee in Mexico City on April 28-29, 80 international anti-poverty, environmental, labor and human rights organizations launched a set of civil society recommendations to the committee. The groups are calling on the Transitional Committee to:
• Ensure that the Global Climate Fund guarantees civil society and community-level participation—particularly through leaders and institutions accountable to poor people—and that gender equality guide the governance and operations of the Fund.
• Guarantee that secondments come from a wide range of institutions and that the World Bank is not placed as the facilitator, secretariat, or lead institution of either the Transitional Committee or the Green Climate Fund. The board of the Global Climate Fund and its secretariat should be independent of any international financial institution or multilateral development bank, and be accountable to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
• Warrant that 50 percent of the funding for the Green Climate Fund is dedicated to adaptation, and provided only in the form of grants. Ensure that only clean and efficient energy technologies are funded: fossil fuel-based technologies, nuclear, large hydropower and industrial scale use of plant biomass for liquid or solid fuels must be excluded.
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| A contribution on 2011-03-29 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Short-term Innovative Finance In this Oxford Energy and Environment, Peter Lockley and Muyeye Chambwera, discuss Airline Passenger Levies as a practical innovative finance option for developed countries to provide the essential start-up funds for the new Global Climate Fund which is meant to be operationalised in December at the next UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa.
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| A contribution on 2011-03-07 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Gree Climate Fund New Oxford energy and Environment Brief
The Brief discusses what will need to be done in the time up to the next UN climate change conference in Durban, South Africa (December 2011), in order to bring the talks on climate finance to a successful conclusion. Khan underlines that the Cancun deal remains fragile and that it is through finance that we can cement it. In particular, the Brief looks at:
(i) what was and what was not accomplished in Cancun;
(ii) the need get clarity on how the Green Climate Fund is to be financed;
(iii) the need to operationalise the Standing Committee on Finance to improve the governance, coherence, and coordination in the delivery of climate finance.
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| A contribution on 2011-02-18 by Benito Mueller on the subject of Payment Terms: Loans Letter by the Nepal NGO Federation, signed by 12 Nepali NGOs, with regard to the proposal of the Nepali Government to accept a loan from the World Bank PPCR
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