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Digital Coverage/ Summary
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily digital coverage and a summary report from this Workshop. To download our report, click the HTML or PDF icons below. |
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Second UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Workshop on Long-term Finance
1-3 October 2012 | Cape Town, South Africa |
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Daily web coverage (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
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Highlights for Tuesday, 2 October 2012
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On the second day of the Second Workshop on Long-term Finance, held in Cape Town, South Africa, participants engaged in a session on enhancing enabling conditions (policies and instruments). They heard a presentation by Amal-Lee Amin, Third Generation Environmentalism (E3G), who provided an overview of: available policy instruments to mobilize climate finance; current barriers to catalyzing investments; and the role of public policy finance in mobilizing scaled-up investment. She emphasized the importance of: engaging stakeholders; setting a clear, long-term and coherent policy; providing price signals to incentivize the deployment of low-carbon investments; creating markets to realize the benefits of green growth; and facilitating cross-ministerial coordination.
Three breakout groups then convened in the morning to address: policies and instruments that have the potential to contribute to mobilizing, scaling up and catalyzing new and additional climate finance over the short, medium and long term; and the potential role of the UNFCCC in fostering these policies and policy instruments.
In the afternoon, participants engaged in a session on enhancing enabling conditions (delivery and access) and heard two presentations. Josué Tanaka, European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD), described the growth of the EBRD’s activities since the launch of the Sustainable Energy Initiative (SEI) in 2006, highlighting that activities include industrial energy efficiency investments, sustainable energy financing facilities, power sector and municipal infrastructure energy efficiency, and renewable energy project financing.
Mafalda Duarte, African Development Bank, presented on long-term finance in Africa, highlighting a concentrated solar project (CSP) in Morocco. She explained that Morocco’s solar agency will receive concessional financing and grants for the project and a large subsidy would be required to cover incremental costs.
Three breakout groups then convened to: explore design elements of international climate finance architecture that exhibit scalability and replicable features for current and future climate actions/funds; and discuss the potential role that the UNFCCC can play in creating a more conducive enabling environment. |
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UNFCCC resources
Workshop website and presentations
Provisional programme for the Workshop
Long-term Finance website
First workshop on long-term finance website and documents, 9-11 July 2012, Bonn, Germany
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