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Channeling of Climate Change Finance
on Local Level
Initiative / response addressing
Vulnerability
Manfred Staab
STA Climate Change Adaptation IRAS, Vientiane, LaoPDR
[email protected]
22 October 2012
Vulnerability Factors
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Definitions / Interpretations
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Vulnerability =
f(exposure, sensitivity, adaptive capacity)
In IPCC reports
• exposure is defined as “the nature and degree to
which a system is exposed to significant climatic
variations”;
• sensitivity is defined as “the degree to which a system
is affected, either adversely or beneficially, by climaterelated stimuli1”; and
• adaptive capacity is defined as “the ability of a system
to adjust to climate change (including climate
variability and extremes), to moderate the potential
damage from it, to take advantage of its opportunities,
or to cope with its consequences”.
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Finance for Sector Resilience
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Finance for Local Technology Transfer
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Finance for Smallholders and SMEs
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Finance for HH Food Security
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Planning for “Adaptive Empowerment”
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Knowledge for “Adaptive Empowerment”, e.g.
http://www.webgeo.de/fao-webgeo-2-intro/
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Community-based Adaptation Practice
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A practice based upon an evolutionary
process cross-cutting through several
sectors in local society, economy, culture,
science
An entwined element in an local
ecosystem approach
An evolving development perspective for
main-streaming in projects (similarly to
Gender)
Highly conservative in maintaining local
diversity
Highly experimental on selection of
methodologies, tools, practical
applications, inputs; local and
international experience
Careful use of appropriate technology
Extensive and long-term knowledge
management
Systematic and long-term analyses of
lessons learnt
Meaningful and long-term socioeconomic engagement
... all bound upon elastic limits in actual
climate change
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Weaknesses of Local CC Finance
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Climate finance is not seen as a relevant macro and micro-economic issue
Classical GDP and GDI indicators partially misleading
Most of climate finance comes as project funding only
Global funding sources and their access unclear
Climate change not included in government budget frameworks and
charts of accounts
National budgets and flow of funds unclear or not specific
Unrealistic expectations on stimulation by markets versus unused
potential of the private sector
Re-labeling of funds made available for other purposes into climate
change finance
Counting and accounting of secondary and tertiary funding sources/effects
as genuine climate change contribution/impact
NGOs losing voices and stamina in CC matters?
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Having an Eye on…
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Finance for local technologies, transfer of technology, patents and intellectual property
rights
Channeling of funds to local initiatives, both government and non-government
Targeted micro finance
Finance of diversity and for diversification as a key principle of resilience
Equity and equality issues in financing of action and investment
Local finance in strategic priorities and assets from a viewpoint of human development
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THANK YOU.
Initiative/response addressing vulnerability
Manfred Staab
Senior Technical Advisor
[email protected]
29 October 2012