Mitigating and adapting to climate change increases the cost of development. Considerable resources are needed in addition to the present levels of official development assistance (ODA) to complement rather than undermine the efforts and progress towards the achievement of development objectives including Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).

It now seems certain that the United Nations conference on climate change in Copenhagen in December will not see the adoption of a detailed and legally binding agreement.

The issues surrounding 'Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation' (REDD) have become a major component of continuing negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Pakistan will focus on a comprehensive global framework at Copenhagen summit encompassing provision if financial resources and technology for triggering action to plough back the damage done to environment as only in our country case emissions are causing loss of Rs 365 billion annually.

New Delhi: Assuring that India will work for a purposeful outcome in the conference on climate change at Copenhagen conference starting from December 6-18, PM Manmohan Singh asked the developed countries responsible for damaging the climate in the last 150 years of industrialization, to finance the developing nations

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said his government was

This report, by the UNDP Regional Centre for Asia and Pacific, looks into the lessons learned from the past economic crises, the impact of the current crisis and policy responses in 14 countries in Asia Pacific. The analysis takes into consideration the rising threat of climate change and the recent experience of natural disasters in the region.

Many valuable climate finance proposals have emerged inside and outside the UNFCCC negotiations but it is unclear how they can be integrated into a package that will work both politically and economically. This paper considers some of these proposals and outlines the design imperatives of a credible climate finance package for Copenhagen.

This working paper presents a mapping of Bilateral Finance Institutions

In view of Asia's enormous untapped economic potential and the ongoing global economic crisis, the challenge now is to build efficient and seamless connections across Asia and to the rest of the world to foment a more competitive, prosperous, and integrated region.

Pages