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Domestic Ambition: A Key Ingredient to Tackling Climate Change

By Jennifer Hatch and Taryn Fransen on December 6, 2012
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In the UNFCCC international climate negotiations, “ambition” refers to countries’ collective will to cu

Fast-Start Finance: Where Do We Stand at the End of 2012?

By Taryn Fransen on December 4, 2012
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This piece was co-authored with Smita Nakhooda of the Overseas Development Institute, with inputs from Noriko Shi

Achieving the Benefits of a Green Economy through Clean Energy

By Priya Barua on June 16, 2012
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How can policymakers deliver low-carbon development, particularly clean energy, at affordable costs?

Shedding Light on Fast-Start Finance

By Taryn Fransen and Smita Nakhooda on May 17, 2012
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How much fast-start climate finance is actually flowing, and where is it being spent?[^1] This question has come up repeatedly alongside the United Nations Framework Convention on Clim

MEDIA ADVISORY: Hope or Hype? WRI Experts Host Press Call on Rio+20 Summit

May 16, 2012
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

As leaders in government, business and civil society prepare to head to Rio de Janeiro for the UN Sustainable Development Summit, known as Rio+20, experts from the World Resources Institute will host a press call to discuss issues and expectations for the meeting.

Open Climate Network Partners Track Climate Policy Progress Around the World

By Jennifer Hatch on October 11, 2011
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The Open Climate Network recently concluded a three-day workshop in which participants from 18 organizations in 13 countries gathered to refine methodologies for the network’s first national asse

Open Climate Network Launches Website to Track National Progress on Climate Change

By Taryn Fransen on September 9, 2011
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Welcome to the Open Climate Network website, a platform for updates and analysis on country actions on climate mitigation and the provision of climate finance.

Summary: Workshop on How to Measure, Report, and Verify Climate Finance

By Kirsten Stasio on August 9, 2011

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An informal summary of WRI’s June 2011 workshop on the measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) of finance provisions in the Cancun Agreements.

United Kingdom Adopts Ambitious Climate Change Target

By Jennifer Morgan on May 17, 2011

Today, the government of the United Kingdom took a significant step to shift to a low-carbon economy, providing clear signals to investors that the UK wants to host large-scale clean energy projects moving forward.

Transparency of Climate Finance: Results from Cancun and Next Steps

By Kirsten Stasio and Remi Moncel on April 3, 2011

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The UNFCCC Cancun Agreements of December 2010 marked an important step forward for transparency of country actions to respond to climate change. In addition to creating a new standard for the way countries report on their national climate commitments and actions, the agreements mandated advances in the reporting and review of countries’ climate finance contributions.

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