上周,绿色气候基金必威官网是真的吗(GCF)董事会举行了上次会议在即将到来之前必威官网是真的吗巴黎的气候谈判。各国将GCF创建为全球气候金融基金,因此,它在实现巴黎协议的目标方面可能起着至关重要的作用。必威官网是真的吗如果GCF将成为未来气候制度的关键参与者,则需要表明它可以有效地花钱。必威官网是真的吗这要完成任务吗?

最近的董事会会议的五个结果开始回答这个问题:

1. Board Approves Initial Projects, With Conditions

经过激烈的讨论,董事会上周批准了所有八个项目的决定,总计1.68亿美元。这标志着GCF的重要里程碑,表明它已准备好支付资金,以支持发展中国家的低碳和气候富裕发展。必威官网是真的吗

但是,资金规模远远远远没有需要。董事会的目标是在2016年支付25亿美元,以确保GCF有望在2018年之前花费足够的钱来触发最初100亿美元的承诺资金。它将需要大大提高其实现这一目标的努力。

Countries will also need to ensure that funding proposals embody the scale and innovation adequate to meet the planet’s pressing needs. The approved portfolio contains projects that show promise in addressing climate change and improving peoples’ lives. They seek to, for example, bring renewable energy to rural communities, scale up the use of climate information for early warning systems, increase ecosystem resilience, and manage climate-induced water shortages. The Board returned repeatedly to questions of whether the projects were sufficiently climate-focused and innovative to live up to the GCF’s mandate to “promote the paradigm shift towards low-emission and climate-resilient development pathways.” For example, questions arose as to whether infrastructure technologies proposed in Bangladesh were sufficiently innovative, or whether water projects proposed by Fiji and the Maldives adequately demonstrated a relationship to impacts from climate change. The Board approved the wetlands resilience project in Peru on the condition that its proponents gain buy-in from affected indigenous Peoples.

2.增加准备支持

Strong project proposals will come from countries that have solid plans and strong institutions ready to effectively access and deploy finance to reduce the impacts of climate change. Currently, many countries still struggle to meet this goal. In order to help ensure the emergence of strong project proposals in the future, the Board created a project preparation facility last week to help national institutions from developing countries generate ambitious pipelines. The Board also approved an additional $14 million to help these institutions become ready to effectively access and utilize GCF funding (bringing the total allocation of readiness finance to $30 million).

为了实现其快速支付雄心勃勃的活动资金的目标,GCF将需要提高其支持项目支持者并迅速分配这些准备就绪资金的能力。GCF将受益于与具有支持发展中国家机构所必需的资源和能力的其他参与者合作。

必威官网是真的吗WRI的气候财务准备就绪

在赞比亚的GCF董事会会议的旁观中,WRI举办了一场晚宴,突出了从发展中国家寻求GCF融资的机构迄今为止学到的经验教训。晚宴汇集了来自政府机构,发展金融机构,民间社会团体和GCF秘书处的各种代表。除其他外,对话的需求包括有关GCF融资的更清晰信息,包括其认证和项目批准流程。

In order to help fill some of the information gap, WRI has partnered with the GCF secretariat and the Deutsche Gesellschaft Für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) to develop自我评估工具对于有兴趣寻求GCF资金的机构。

3.战略计划的计划?

展望未来,GCF可能会从制定更明确的计划中受益,以支持它如何支持朝着更具气候兼容的发展发展。必威官网是真的吗如果制作精良,一项战略计划可能有可能帮助该机构阐明其相对于其他资金来源的作用,并使其能够专注于其投资可能产生最大影响的领域。董事会认识到上周这种计划的潜在价值,并为制定更详细的策略提供了一个过程。董事会同意创建一个由来自发达国家和发展中国家的三名董事会成员组成的工作组来探索该选项。非正式的董事会会议将于明年年初举行,以阐明关键问题的危险,包括更清晰的战略如何帮助该机构扩大活动并满足发展中国家的需求。该过程将向利益相关者的参与开放,并希望有助于指导基金迈向雄心勃勃的未来。

4.建立的监视和问责制框架

In order to help ensure that those receiving finance from the GCF adhere to the GCF’s standards, the Board adopted an initial monitoring and accountability framework last week. While the GCF will need additional procedures to put the framework into practice, it is a good start in being able to monitor the impact of GCF activities. The framework sets out monitoring and reporting requirements for accredited entities and remedial measures in the case of a breach of requirements. It also includes a role for local participatory monitoring. An interesting and welcome development was the inclusion of a provision that requires assessing whether an entity’s overall portfolio is moving toward low-emission and climate-resilient development as a factor in determining reaccreditation every five years. This provision clarifies that the GCF should look at the overall funding trends of entities before deciding whether to accredit them.

5.延迟认证

董事会上周没有时间解决一些问题,包括将九个新实体的认证作为实施实体。议程项目在会议上很晚(昨晚上午3:30)出现,董事会决定将认证决定推迟到下次会议。一方面,延迟可以改善认证过程,例如引入更多透明度。它还推迟了一些较大的银行的认证,以获得一些有争议的认证。但是,结果令人失望,特别是对于非洲的三个国家实体而言,他们在这次会议上获得认可的期望。考虑到该基金认证的其他机构的动机,它也可能引起阻碍。

高希望,大问题

凭借其第一个项目批准,该基金进入了其运营的新阶段。但是关键问题仍然存在。该基金是否会促进范式转移到低排放,气候富裕的发展,或者仅追求渐进变化?必威官网是真的吗这是使发展中国家采取更加雄心勃勃的气候行动的力量,还是像往常一样支持业务?必威官网是真的吗巴黎协定的成功实施将在很大程度上取决于GCF的有效性。现在是该基金加紧的时候了。