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Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Climate Finance: Lessons from International Development by : Corrine Cash
Download or read book The Political Economy of Climate Finance: Lessons from International Development written by Corrine Cash and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project breaks disciplinary silos by bringing those who work in climate finance and policy together with development scholars and practitioners to share lessons, understanding, and research with an overall goal of making a contribution to the climate change field so that those at the community level benefit from the multitude of programmes designed for climate impacts. For some 70 years, International Development specialists have been developing programs and delivering funds to those who most need assistance. There is a wealth of knowledge to be uncovered by examining the international development industry for those who are now tasked with delivering climate finance. The academic, policy, and practitioner communities have spent decades researching, examining, and analyzing both development policies and finance independent of each. This volume will seek to bring that research together.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Low Carbon Resilient Development by : Susannah Fisher
Download or read book The Political Economy of Low Carbon Resilient Development written by Susannah Fisher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last decade, policies and financing decisions aiming to support low carbon resilient development within the least developed countries have been implemented across several regions. Some governments are steered by international frameworks, such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), while others take their own approach to planning and implementing climate resilient actions. Within these diverse approaches however, there are unspoken assumptions and normative assessments of what the solutions to climate change are, who the most appropriate actors are and who should benefit from these actions. This book examines the political economy dynamics or the underlying values, knowledge, discourses, resources and power relationships behind decisions that support low carbon resilient development in the least developed countries. While much has been written on the politics of climate change, this book will focus on the political economy of national planning and the ways in which the least developed countries are moving from climate resilient planning to implementation. The book will use empirical evidence of low carbon resilient development planning in four countries: Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Nepal. Different approaches to low carbon resilience are critically analysed based on detailed analysis of key policy areas. This book will be of great interest to policy makers, practitioners’ students and scholars of climate change and sustainable development.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Climate Finance in Brazil by : Ursula Flossmann-Kraus
Download or read book The Political Economy of Climate Finance in Brazil written by Ursula Flossmann-Kraus and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Navigating institutions and donor requirements to successfully access international climate finance is challenging for many countries. Establishing national climate funds can be a way to meet these challenges, ensuring the targeted use of funds and strengthening ownership. This book examines the establishment of two national climate funds in Brazil, the Low Carbon Agriculture Programme and the Amazon Fund. Their establishment must be seen against the background of a drastic shift in Brazilian climate policy, enabled by discursive changes, during the administration of the Workers' Party 2003 - 2016. Dr. Ursula Flossmann-Kraus is a climate finance specialist and has led and implemented projects and programmes for GIZ and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Climate Finance Effectiveness in Developing Countries by : Mark Purdon
Download or read book The Political Economy of Climate Finance Effectiveness in Developing Countries written by Mark Purdon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Political Economy of Climate Finance Effectiveness in Developing Countries, Mark Purdon contributes to broader debates on the international climate cooperation by evaluating how three different climate finance instruments have been undertaken in three countries--Tanzania, Uganda, and Moldova--and evaluates their effectiveness in actually reducing emissions. He shows that the effectiveness of climate finance tools depends on the interaction between a nation's development policy paradigms and its interests in other sectors of their economies. Purdon's findings further inform the design of international and transnational efforts to engage developing countries on climate change mitigation by emphasizing the importance of domestic politics and the state.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Global Warming by : Del Weston
Download or read book The Political Economy of Global Warming written by Del Weston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanity is facing an unprecedented global catastrophe as a result of global warming. This book examines the reasons why international agencies, together with national governments, are seemingly unable to provide real and binding solutions to the problems. The reasons presented relate to the existing dominant global economic structure of capitalism as well as the fact that global warming is too often seen as an isolated problem rather than one of a suite of exceptional, converging and accelerating crises arising from the global capitalist political economy. This book adopts a political economy framework to address these issues. It accepts the science of global warming but challenges the predominant politics and economics of global warming. To illustrate the key issues involved, the book draws on South Africa – building on Samir Amin’s thesis that the country represents a microcosm of the global political economy. By taking a political economy approach, the book provides a clear explanation of the deep and pervasive problem of the denial which fails to acknowledge global warming as a systemic rather than a market problem. The book should be of interest to students and scholars researching climate change, environmental politics, environmental and ecological economics, development studies and political economics.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of National Climate Funds by : Rishikesh Bhandary
Download or read book The Political Economy of National Climate Funds written by Rishikesh Bhandary and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this dissertation is on how developing countries mobilize financial resources to support actions on climate change. The existing literature has largely focused on how the preferences of donors shape financial flows and has not paid enough attention to how developing countries exercise their agency in determining how and under what conditions they receive international climate finance. This dissertation analyzes how host country governments negotiate and identifies the factors that constrain the exercise of that agency. This dissertation finds that the credibility of government commitment best explains how developing countries mobilize climate finance. Negotiating capital (charismatic leadership and salience), the policy context, and actor preferences help to explain finance mobilization. Closely tied to the question of the quantity of finance is the design of the delivery vehicle that is used to channel it. Therefore, the institutional design features of the funds have received a lot of attention in this dissertation. These features include: selecting the fund manager (the trustee of the fund), the fund's governing arrangement (the board), scope (what the fund focuses on), and the financing instruments at the fund's disposal. The institutional design features vary across contexts and pose different levels of sovereignty costs to the host country. This dissertation finds that host governments seek to minimize sovereignty costs they incur even if this means increasing the transaction costs associated with the fund. This finding is in contrast with the scholarship on the design of international institutions that expects design features to reflect the maximization of efficiency gains, such as reductions in transaction costs. The cases here suggest that the actors maximize control and reduce sovereignty costs even if that means incurring higher amounts of transaction costs. Four national climate funds form the empirical core of this study. Bangladesh's experience illustrates how a country that tried hard to bargain with donors was hamstrung by the governance risks posed by its administrative and budgetary processes. Even though the government pre-empted negotiations and designed its own fund, donors were too reluctant to use it as the delivery vehicle. Despite having strong negotiating capital, it had to concede sovereignty costs by accepting the World Bank as the trustee of the fund. The lack of existing data also hampered credibility as it created confusion on how the fund was really adding value. Brazil was in a strong negotiating position vis-à-vis Norway. As it already had policies under implementation, with data that could be monitored, it enjoyed low sovereignty costs in the design of the Amazon Fund. As the original policy to control deforestation had the buy-in of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, which was also the lead in the negotiations with Norway, it did not suffer from implementation problems. As new governments followed, the gains achieved and institutionalized during the Lula and Dilma presidencies have been reversed. Former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's vision for low carbon growth in Ethiopia gained the interest of a few donors such as the UK and Norway. Initially, the emphasis on climate change, however, was not widely shared amongst Ethiopia's donors. Therefore, the CRGE Facility did not attract substantial amounts of finance at the outset. The fund design reflected the concerns of both sides. UNDP was asked to manage one window of the fund while the Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation housed the government-managed window. The government had to allow donors to earmark their contributions if they routed their finance through the government-managed window. In effect, this meant setting up parallel governance and reporting frameworks for each earmarked contribution, thereby increasing transaction costs. While the CRGE strategy and vision are officially under implementation, the inability of the government to provide data and indicators has meant that donors remain unconvinced about how much implementation is actually taking place. In Indonesia, former President Yudhoyono's leadership and Indonesia's salience in terms of deforestation-related emissions provided the government with much negotiating leverage. Indonesia did not have the data or the policies in place at the time of negotiations with Norway. Therefore, it was subject to input-based financing instruments, with specified milestones and targets, until it was ready for results-based financing. The lack of policy implementation, at the time of fund design, also meant that policy rivalry between the lead negotiators (President's Office) and the main target of the fund (the Ministry of Forests) impeded implementation. It took Indonesia nearly a decade before it claimed payments for avoided deforestation from Norway.
Book Synopsis Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis by : Steffen Böhm
Download or read book Negotiating Climate Change in Crisis written by Steffen Böhm and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change negotiations have failed the world. Despite more than thirty years of high-level, global talks on climate change, we are still seeing carbon emissions rise dramatically. This edited volume, comprising leading and emerging scholars and climate activists from around the world, takes a critical look at what has gone wrong and what is to be done to create more decisive action. Composed of twenty-eight essays—a combination of new and republished texts—the anthology is organised around seven main themes: paradigms; what counts?; extraction; dispatches from a climate change frontline country; governance; finance; and action(s). Through this multifaceted approach, the contributors ask pressing questions about how we conceptualise and respond to the climate crisis, providing both ‘big picture’ perspectives and more focussed case studies. This unique and extensive collection will be of great value to environmental and social scientists alike, as well as to the general reader interested in understanding current views on the climate crisis.
Book Synopsis The Cultures of Markets by : Janelle Kallie Knox
Download or read book The Cultures of Markets written by Janelle Kallie Knox and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century. Countries around the globe are developing emissions markets as a response to it. This book examines the cultures of these markets, arguing policy makers must include more flexibility in climate policy to allow emissions markets to be translated and transferred across regions.
Book Synopsis Political Economy of International Climate Finance: Navigating Decisions in PPCR and SREP. by :
Download or read book Political Economy of International Climate Finance: Navigating Decisions in PPCR and SREP. written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation by : Benjamin K. Sovacool
Download or read book The Political Economy of Climate Change Adaptation written by Benjamin K. Sovacool and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on concepts in political economy, political ecology, justice theory, and critical development studies, the authors offer the first comprehensive, systematic exploration of the ways in which adaptation projects can produce unintended, undesirable results. This work is on the Global Policy: Next Generation list of six key books for understanding the politics of global climate change.
Book Synopsis Essays on the Political Economy of Climate Change by : Byeong-Hak Choe
Download or read book Essays on the Political Economy of Climate Change written by Byeong-Hak Choe and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation focuses on the political economy of the environment, particularly for climate change. Specifically, I analyze the consequence of climate politics on climate change regulations at national and global levels. The first chapter, "Climate Finance under Conflicts and Renegotiations: A Dynamic Contract Approach," proposes a model of financing two types of climate change projects---adaptation and mitigation---in developing countries. The model in the first chapter considers climate funds (e.g. the Green Climate Fund) as the financial mechanism to provide funding to developing countries. The model demonstrates the consequences of conflicts and renegotiations between rich and poor countries on long-term climate funding dynamics. The second chapter, "Social Media Campaigns, Lobbying and Legislation: Evidence from #climatechange/#globalwarming and Energy Lobbies," estimates the competition between social media campaigns and fossil fuel lobbying on climate change legislation in the U.S., showing that social media contributes to political polarization on climate-unfriendly bills on which the fossil fuel industry exerted the lobbying pressure during the 113-115th U.S. Congresses (2013-2018).
Book Synopsis Deepening Readiness for Climate Finance by : Neha Rai
Download or read book Deepening Readiness for Climate Finance written by Neha Rai and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Climate Crisis Economics by : Stuart P. M. Mackintosh
Download or read book Climate Crisis Economics written by Stuart P. M. Mackintosh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate Crisis Economics draws on economics, political economy, scientific literature, and data to gauge the extent to which our various communities – political, economic, business – are making the essential leap to a new narrative and policy approach that will accelerate us towards the necessary transition to a decarbonized economy and sustainable future. The book draws out policies and practices with both national and local examples, which will demonstrate various complementary approaches that are empowering states and people as they seek to pursue the carbon neutral goal. The author delineates a climate crisis economics approach that is fit for purpose and which can help achieve necessary climate change goals in the decades ahead. Ensuring economic and ecological sustainability is neither easy nor cost-free; there is no single solution to the climate crisis. All aspects of our economies, policies, business, and personal practices must come into alignment in order to succeed. Frustratingly, we know what is needed and we have many of the technologies and systems to make the leap to a carbon neutral economy, yet we still fail to act with alacrity. Leaders, communities, and businesses must shift their narratives in how they talk about and think about the climate crisis. In doing so, in making the narrative leap to a new understanding about what is possible and necessary, we can stop endangering our common future and single, fragile, global habitat, and instead set the stage for Green Globalisation 2.0 and a new, sustainable industrial revolution. Climate Crisis Economics will appeal to academics, students, investors, and professionals from varying disciplines including politics, international political economy, and international economics. Written in an accessible voice, it draws on work in fields outside of and in addition to politics and economics to make a case for climate crisis economics as an approach to addressing the climate change challenge ahead. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched www.knowledgeunlatched.org
Book Synopsis Within Reach by : Stephane Hallegatte
Download or read book Within Reach written by Stephane Hallegatte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change presents a unique challenge in that policy makers need to balance the speed and scale required to achieve global objectives within the time required to ensure political acceptability and social sustainability. Within Reach: Navigating the Political Economy of Decarbonization identifies the key political economy barriers and explores the options to address them through four key recommendations: * Climate governance: strategically adapt the institutional architecture and embed climate objectives into a positive development narrative. Strategic governance institutions that reflect societal goals--such as climate change framework laws, longterm strategies, or just transition frameworks--can alter the political economy, set clear objectives, facilitate coordination across actors, and help monitor progress and hold decision-makers accountable. * Policy sequencing: balance short-term feasibility and long-term ambition. Because the political economy and institutional context are dynamic and can be influenced by policies, policy makers can select their priorities, not only to make policy implementation feasible but also to actively build capacity and change the political economy and institutional context, building momentum toward the long-term objective and transformation. * Policy design: focus on people and manage the distributional effects of climate policies. Climate policies have heterogenous impacts across households, sectors, and locations. Active labor policies, reskilling programs, compensations and transfers, place-based policies, and green industrial policies can be used to protect vulnerable populations, facilitate a just transition, and make policies more acceptable and sustainable. * Policy process: use public engagement and communication to improve design and legitimacy. Civic engagement can improve a policy's design, enhance legitimacy, foster compromise, and help identify unintended consequences early. Effective communication can make reforms more accessible to the public and increase support. This book shows how appropriate governance frameworks, strong institutional capacity, well-designed policies with adequate compensation measures, and early engagement with all stakeholders are essential strategic elements to building consensus and momentum for transformative policies. By deploying these tools, policy makers can navigate the urgency in climate action and its political economy challenges to achieve their long-term climate goals and secure a livable planet.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment by : Éloi Laurent
Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment written by Éloi Laurent and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring a stellar international cast list of leading and cutting-edge scholars, The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of the Environment presents the state of the art of the discipline that considers ecological issues and crises from a political economy perspective. This collective volume sheds new light on the effect of economic and power inequality on environmental dynamics and, conversely, on the economic and social impact of environmental dynamics. The chapters gathered in this handbook make four original contributions to the field of political economy of the environment. First, they revisit essential concepts and methods of environmental economics in the light of their political economy. Second, they introduce readers to recent theoretical and empirical advances in key issues of political economy of the environment with a special focus on the relationship between inequality and environmental degradation, a nexus that has dramatically come into focus with the COVID crisis. Third, the authors of this handbook open the field to its critical global and regional dimensions: global issues, such as the environmental justice movement and inequality and climate change as well as regional issues such as agriculture systems, air pollution, natural resources appropriation and urban sustainability. Fourth and finally, the work shows how novel analysis can translate into new forms of public policy that require institutional reform and new policy tools. Ecosystems preservation, international climate negotiations and climate mitigation policies all have a strong distributional dimension that chapters point to. Pressing environmental policy such as carbon pricing and low-carbon and energy transitions entail numerous social issues that also need to be accounted for with new analytical and technological tools. This handbook will be an invaluable reference, research and teaching tool for anyone interested in political economy approaches to environmental issues and ecological crises.
Download or read book Power Shift written by Peter Newell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel, interdisciplinary account of the global politics of producing, financing, governing and mobilising energy system transformation.
Book Synopsis The Political Economy of Sustainable Development by : Timothy Cadman
Download or read book The Political Economy of Sustainable Development written by Timothy Cadman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-27 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Rio ‘Earth’ Summit of 1992, sustainable development has become the major policy response to tackling global environmental degradation, from climate change to loss of biodiversity and deforestation. Market instruments such as emissions trading, payments for ecosystem services and timber certification have become the main mechanisms for financing the sustainable management of the earth’s natural resources. Yet how effective are they – and do they help the planet and developing countries, or merely uphold the economic status quo? This book investigates these important questions. Providing a comprehensive analysis and the latest research on sustainable development, the authors compare the divergent approaches to emissions trading. Included is a detailed investigation into illegal logging and the effectiveness of policy responses, with an evaluation of different forest certification schemes. Biodiversity offsets and environmental payments are also explored. Integral to the book are interviews and opinions of the key stakeholders in the political economy of sustainable development. This uniquely comprehensive analysis of the governance quality of different sustainable development mechanisms, unprecedented in its panorama of comparative case studies, is essential reading for all those in the policy, academic and non-governmental communities.
