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Climate finance can't afford carbon markets

A high-level advisory group to the United Nations, the Advisory Group on Climate Change Finance (AGF) will outline its draft proposals this week for financing efforts to combat global climate change. Carbon markets are expected to be central to their recommendations.

Climate finance can’t afford carbon markets

Tianjin, China – A high-level advisory group to the United Nations will outline its draft proposals this week for financing efforts to combat global climate change. Carbon emissions markets are expected to be central in their recommendations.

Carbon markets: A reliable and practical source of climate finance?

Remarks of Jim harkness, president, IATP United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Tianjin, China

Trusting in Dark (Carbon) Markets? The UN High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Finance

Introduction

Speculating on Carbon: The Next Toxic Asset

Global climate change negotiations currently treat greenhouse gas emissions as a tradable commodity. Carbon trading on poorly regulated commodity futures markets has disrupted efforts to address climate change. The planned expansion of carbon trading could also adversely affect food security.

Trading carbon emissions: Turning a liability into an asset?

Accountants are trying to decide whether credits for trading carbon dioxide are assets or whether they are liabilities unless and until firms comply with progressively more stringent annual limits on their greenhouse gas emissions. The U.S.

Weak climate deal leaves hard choices for next year

Copenhagen – A watered down political agreement reached this morning in Copenhagen lacks the firm commitments needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address global climate change, said the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).

Women speaking out on climate change

Climate justice has been the central focus of the civil society meetings at the Klimaforum this week in Copenhagen.

Copenhagen is Not the End, but the Beginning

At his press conference in Copenhagen a few minutes ago, U.S.

Different paths in Copenhagen

From day one of the global climate talks, discussions within the Bella Center (home of the official negotiations) have differed greatly from those at the Klima Forum (home of NGO-led discussions). Put simply, at the Bella Center the main issue of contention is money—not the climate.

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