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UN HIGH LEVEL ADVISORY GROUP ON
CLIMATE CHANGE FINANCING - WOMEN??
http://www.un-ngls.org/spip.php?article3103
6 November 2010
The UN Secretary-General established a High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) on 12 February 2010 for the duration of 10 months. The final report of the AGF has been released and is available here. A video of the report launch press event can be viewed here.
The Group studied “potential sources of revenue for the scaling up of new and additional resources from developed countries for financing actions in developing countries, in the spirit of the political commitments contained in the Copenhagen Accord, with a view to contributing to an appropriate decision of the UNFCCC Conference of the Parties at its 16th session in Mexico.”
The Terms of Reference for the AGF defined the group’s scope of work as follows:
As part of its work, the Group will develop practical proposals on how to
significantly scale-up long-term financing for mitigation and adaptation
strategies in developing countries from various public as well as private
sources, and how best to deliver it. Besides considering how existing mechanisms
can be scaled up, the Group will also examine the need for new and innovative
long-term sources of finance, in order to fill the gap in international climate
financing.
The Group will provide views and suggestions, based on the best possible
analysis, that are in support of development. The criteria for assessing
combinations of sources will include: revenue; efficiency; incidence; equity;
practicality; acceptability; additionality; and reliability. Funding would help
fund adaptation, mitigation, technological development and transfer, and
capacity building for action on climate change in developing countries. The
Group will in particular address the needs for funding for adaptation of the
most vulnerable.