Billions at stake in climate finance: four key lessons

IIED Briefing
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Published: November 2009
IIED Briefing Papers
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How can we break through the impasse on the road to Copenhagen? As the climate talks stall over the size of emissions cuts and who pays for them, it is increasingly clear that funding will be key to breaking the deadlock. Guaranteeing adequate levels of climate finance will be a deal maker or breaker for the poorest nations as the December summit approaches. But on the brink of a new chapter in climate funding, with unprecedented flows at stake, donor countries need to learn from decades of aid experience – mistakes as well as successes. Failure to do this risks wasting a great opportunity to kickstart low-carbon, climate-resilient development for the world’s poor.

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Newell, P., Roberts, J., Boyd, E. and Huq, S. (2009). Billions at stake in climate finance: four key lessons. .
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