The Kingdom of Alahkie
Friday, October 30, 2015
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World Bank Climate Investment Funds
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Aaron Kaah Yancho
The World Bank launched a set of Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) in 2008 which included adaption, forestry, funds for clean technology and renewable energy. The bank pointed out that CIF was needed for the mobilization of large sums of money through provision of public funds to influence much greater volumes of private finance, however, a study funded by the Swedish Energy Agency and Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs found supporting claims to be exaggerated. For example, World Bank’s Clean Technology Fund (CTF) self-reported of 2.6. An in-depth examination of a CTF project in Turkey by the Berne Declaration found that the fund ‘failed in its key promise to bring in additional money from the Turkish government and multilateral sources.’ Move over, statistics showed that the amounts transferred by the World Bank to developing countries turned to be very low as compared to other institutions. For instance, Adaptation Fund(2015)conducted an analysis projects funded by Adaptation Fund between 2012 and 2015 in developing countries. The analysis showed that the World Bank had transferred only 17% of the amount that they had committed.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:51 AM,
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Climate change, Risk management and the Importance of Data
Aaron Kaah Yancho
In Africa, the primary concern is adapting to the negative impacts of climate change. This means taking both short-and long-term approaches to managing climate risks. In the short term Integrating climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction will help withstand shocks to human security and economic development from which recovery can be costly.
African governments, businesses and communities can do much to anticipate and reduce risk, rather than reacting after impacts have occurred. Support for effective disaster relief and recovery needs to continue, along with proactive efforts to reduce risk, such as integrating comprehensive risk assessments and risk reduction measures into national economic and development policy. In the longer term, governments, businesses and communities need not only to prepare for the kinds of climate impacts experienced up to now but also for different and more intense climate impacts and extreme events. Measures may include providing adequate housing, infrastructure or services, or mainstreaming climate change into urban planning processes.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:50 AM,
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Food Security and Climate Change
Aaron Kaah Yancho
The world is teetering on the brink of global hunger and food insecurity. One important way of averting such destruction is to improve agriculture to be more resilient to climate change which is already exacting a toll on both developing and developed countries. MOSHE * TSEHLO in LESOTHO takes an insight in to these challenges.
Achieving this means using the environment, on which agriculture depends more sustainably. In particular the world will need to tackle three environmental issues: declining diversity, water scarcity and climate change in a way that does not compromise developmental goals. Delivering pro-poor sustainable and more productive agriculture requires policy makers to integrate environment more intricately into food security and farming policies, programmes and funding decisions. Agriculture is both a driver and victim of climate change, on the one hand, the carbon emissions of each link in the industrial food chain from seed to plate including the production of inputs such as fertilizers, all contribute to climate change.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:47 AM,
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Climate financing and Development in Africa
Aaron Kaah Yancho
Climate change is already having effects on national development efforts in various African countries. Changes in weather patterns and especially rainfall are affecting smallholder farmers and pastoralist. Poor urban communities are affected by climate change challenges such as flooding and accelerated migration from rural to urban areas. It is apparent, therefore, that ending poverty and improving overall wellbeing is linked to meeting the challenges of climate change, with climate finance being an important part of it.
Developing countries are already applying climate finance in making fundamental changes in their planning and in orienting their economic development strategies. Several countries have been making efforts in adaption of climate finance in line to achieving equitable and sustainable development.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:42 AM,
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COP21 Negotiations! Africa is Getting Ready
Aaron Kaah Yancho reports from Dar es salaam Tanzania
The just ended pioneering AFRICAN CLIMATE Talk’s conference on the Julius Nyerere international conference center in Tanzania has mobilized the engagement of Africans from all spheres of life in the lead up to the Paris Cop21 later this year.
This 3 days conference also built up consensus towards a common African position on the post 2015 frame work and also developed mechanisms to hold African policy makers and negotiations accountable to that vision.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:19 AM,
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