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"What role of local voluntary carbon market, especially at city-scale?"

"A critical feature in having all the long-, medium-term, and current climate finance actually be effective and build trust on both sides of the contributor/recipient line is building an independent system of categorizing and tracking these funds. These are core elements in an MRV of finance. On categorization, we need clear criteria of what _counts_ for each category (mitigation, adaptation, land-use/REDD+). On tracking, we first need transparency of what is being counted by contributor nations and multilateral agencies. Most basically, we need to know which projects and programs are being counted as climate finance by these agencies, at the project level. There is very grave evidence of miscategorization of projects under the OECD Rio Markers system, of projects which should not have been be counted. [Note that these projects are categorized by contributor agencies, not the OECD.] These need to be independently checked, by some group delegated by the Convention. Second, we need a system to track the funds all the way from the contributor agency to recipient government, and to implementing agencies, from the planning stages to the end of implementation of each project. All this is possible now with web-based technology which has been developed for other sectors of foreign assistance. These systems will be critical in maintaining the confidence that will keep climate finance coming for the rest of this decade and beyond. So the question is, can these systems of categorization and tracking of climate finance be set up now, under the authority of the UNFCCC, based on Fast-Start experience?"

"There has been a lot of focus on attracting the private sector finance, with detailed discussion, but there has been no in-depth discussion of how we are going to scale up public sources between 2013-2020. - Public finance needs are huge, and 100billion dollar commitment should be public, even if part of that is used for leveraging more private finance. Developed countries don't seem to agree. What do they then think will be the ballpark share of public finance of the 100bn? Are they jumping ship on the commitment?"

Questions for Prof. Sachs have been forwarded to him. You can find them here.

"Please see the attachment for our questions for each day of the workshop.
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute,
The RTCC.org team"

• The Issue of information flow on FSF is a great challenge in many developing countries ; with many uncoordinated climate change projects by private sector, civil society and government(not clear on climate finance).
• We have put in place National Climate Change Donor Coordination Group that Meets quarterly (4 times a year) coordinated by the Ministry of Environment with high level representation of relevant ministries, Civil society and private sector. This been useful understanding the various upcoming projects funded by different donors and the amount allocated as part of FSF. However, it is not clear to some diplomatic missions in the country on what is climate change finance.
• Systematic national approach to climate is crucial to understanding Climate finance and corresponding activities. We are in the final stage of preparing a Comprehensive National climate Change Action plan-which has priority actions on mitigations and adaptation and in addition, national finance framework which will coordinate all climate finance in the country.
• We look forward to clear predictable and certain future international climate finance and replenishment of Green Climate Fund  to take forward and implement our comprehensive actions on climate change and build capacities for the respective institutions under our plan."

IISD Reporting
IISD has also covered the second workshop on long-term finance, please click here for further information.

• Workshop programme
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Schedule for webcast and presentations (In Central European Time)

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• Methodologies used for measuring climate-related finance needs at global, regional, and country level
• Lessons learned from application of "top-down" and "bottom-up" approaches in climate financial needs assessments
• Conditions that enable accurate assessment of mitigation and adaptation related finance needs in developing countries
• Methodologies used for tracking climate mitigation and adaptation financial flows

• The potential of existing and new sources of public finance in addressing adaption finance needs of developing countries
• Insight emerging from the experience of bilateral and multilateral adaption financing mechanisms in scaling up financial resources in the short, medium and long term
• The role of the financial mechanism of the Convention in mobilizing scaled up financial resources to address climate adaptation related financing need of developing countries
• Assessment of replicability and scalability of types of adaptation funding models based on the experience of the Adaptation Fund, other bilateral and multilateral funds, and national funds.
• The potential of private sector engagement in adaptation activities: What is the potential for scalability and reliability of sustainable microfinance and microinsurance schemes?