Assessing Climate Finance Readiness in the Asia-Pacific Region
| Autor: | Jeremy M. Hills, Jale Samuwai |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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climate finance
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences lcsh:TJ807-830 Geography Planning and Development lcsh:Renewable energy sources Climate change Public expenditure readiness Asia-Pacific Small Island States bilateral remittances CPEIR PSIDS climate change 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Climate Finance Asia pacific region 01 natural sciences Development economics lcsh:Environmental sciences 0105 earth and related environmental sciences lcsh:GE1-350 Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment lcsh:Environmental effects of industries and plants Fiscal policy Dilemma lcsh:TD194-195 Remittance Business Small Island Developing States |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability; Volume 10; Issue 4; Pages: 1192 Sustainability, Vol 10, Iss 4, p 1192 (2018) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | Readiness is the current mantra in the climate finance discourse and is a key determinant for accessing climate finance. This study develops and applies an analytical 3-dimensional framework to appraise climate finance readiness in selected Asia-Pacific countries. Three dimensions of readiness are identified: (1) Policies and Institutions, (2) Knowledge Management and Learning, and (3) Fiscal Policy Environment. Using the Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review as the basis for such framework, the study uncovers a massive readiness gap between countries in the Asian sub-region and those in the Pacific sub-region. The study also found that readiness has a predictable, yet small, impact on the magnitude of climate finance accessed. This suggests that improving readiness alone is not sufficient to unlock climate finance, as access to climate finance is to a larger extent determined by other factors; this is critical to shaping readiness endeavors for the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS), as well as for donors. This study argues for a re-think in the PSIDS current readiness approach, reducing emphasis on multilateral and private flows and diversifying through practical and uncomplicated bilateral and remittance sources. These two sources of finances have a good track record of consistently mobilizing external finance to PSIDS despite their climate finance readiness status. Broadening readiness efforts towards these two alternative funding sources extends the feasibility of the current readiness approach. The present direction of climate finance readiness offers a continuing access dilemma to many of the PSIDS, especially the poorest and most vulnerable. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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