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‘Raising Ambition and Accelerating Delivery of Climate Finance’ Report Released

Posted 16 Nov 2024

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The report was released at 29th CoP to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

  • It provides estimates of investment needs across areas Clean energy transition, Adaptation and resilience, Loss and damage, Natural capital & Just Transition to meet Paris Agreement.

Key Findings of the Report

  • Global Investment Required for climate action is around $6.3–6.7 trillion per year by 2030. 
    • Emerging market & developing countries (EMDCs) other than China require $2.3-2.5 trillion.
      • Currently, investment is concentrated in economies such as India and Brazil. 
  • Increased Role of non-traditional sources in closing financing gap. E.g. voluntary carbon market, South South Cooperation, use of special drawing rights etc
  • Unprecedented opportunity for developing countries due to declining technology costs (of solar power)  & huge expansion in supply from China

Recommendations 

  • Integrated approach to Climate Finance with strengthening of collaboration,  development of  sectoral investment plans and co-creation of  project pipelines
    • Public Funding: Manage debt and fiscal space, boost domestic resource mobilization(by carbon pricing)  etc.
    • Private Investment: Reduce cost of capital, expand options for concessional finance, Tapping the potential of carbon markets etc.
  • Multilateral Development Banks: should work to triple lending capacity by 2030 as part of New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance(NCQG). 

Mechanisms to Facilitate Climate Finance 

  • Global Environment Facility (1991): Aimed at addressing global environmental issues, including climate change.
  • Green Climate Fund (2010): Established at COP 16 (Cancum Conference) to support developing countries. 
  • New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG): currently under discussion, it aims to set a new financial target to support developing countries in their climate actions post-2025.
  • Tags :
  • Green Climate Fund (GCF)
  • Climate Finance
  • New Collective Quantified Goal
  • Clean energy transition
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