Biblioteca

This case study captures emerging trends in adaptation-directed microfinance in Tajikistan. Microfinance is a critical enabler of climate resilience because it provides communities with direct access to the financial resources they require to address their most pressing needs. The findings in this case study have emerged from a variety of country interventions funded by the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR).

This brief is part of the PPCR Knowledge for Resilience Series. The Series aims to share the lessons learned by countries implementing projects under the CIF’s PPCR.

The case studies presented in this research brief provide some examples of how Caribbean countries under the Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR) are working towards achieving enhanced water resilience through decentralized solutions. These include rainwater harvesting, community storage tanks, and small-scale desalination. In addition, the case studies point towards the factors that affect the adoption of such solutions.

This brief is part of the PPCR Knowledge for Resilience Series. The Series aims to share the lessons learned by countries implementing projects under the CIF’s PPCR.

This research brief uses a case study approach to document best practice and innovation on intermediated, concessional, microfinance mechanisms that have arisen from a variety of climate-direction interventions funded through the Climate Investment Fund’s (CIF) Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR). It shows that using intermediated, concessionary finance to enable inclusive, microfinance solutions allows communities vulnerable to climate change to adapt and build resilience by financing income-producing activities, building up their assets, stabilizing consumption and taking measures to protect themselves against climate risks.

This brief is part of the PPCR Knowledge for Resilience Series. The Series aims to share the lessons learned by countries implementing projects under the CIF’s PPCR.

The objective of this learning review is to learn lessons from the experience of the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF)  Forest Investment Program (FIP) and other initiatives in supporting investments in forest-related enterprises. The study identifies key barriers and risks that impact leveraging private finance and examines how to overcome these challenges to increase the viability and scale of private-sector investments, with an emphasis on small and medium-scale enterprises.

FIP works primarily through multilateral development banks (MDBs) to put in place enabling investments, with aspirations towards piloting replicable models of REDD+ asset investment that will attract new and additional sources of finance.

This learning review aims to capture the experience of the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) Forest Investment Program (FIP) in encouraging greater involvement of Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IPLCs) in financial and policy processes that relate to forests. It focuses on the use of an innovative Dedicated Grant Mechanism (DGM) and serves as a resource for stakeholders – including forest-dependent communities, DGM practitioners, donors, multilateral development banks and climate funds – to understand the early outcomes of the DGM and identify useful lessons and insights to guide current and future DGM implementation.

The DGM is a special initiative under FIP to support the full and effective participation of IPLCs in the effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and promote sustainable forest management and forest carbon stocks, a global process known as REDD+.

This study reviews the conditions that enabled the successful structuring of the few recent private sector investments in African forestry. It aims to assess the current market potential for commercial forestry in Africa, to analyze alternative investment models for its development, and to advise on the feasibility of a dedicated fund promoting new and additional investments in the sector.

Findings from this study are intended to support the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Kenya in evaluating and designing alternative private funding models for commercial forestry in Africa with a view to ultimately establish, or aid the establishment of, a specialized investment vehicle for commercial forestry plantations.

This study aims to diagnose the reasons for the slow growth and low investments in solar rooftop in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector in India and assess the key barriers and potential ways to help scale up. 

The study also evaluates appropriate financial instruments that balance the concerns of lenders with the needs of MSMEs. A total of 150 MSMEs were surveyed across six identified clusters (rubber and plastic; pharmaceuticals; auto; paper; food and beverage; textiles). Through this lens, the study proposes interventions to promote and increase uptake of rooftop solar in the MSME segment in India.

This study takes one of the first comprehensive looks at how concessional finance has already been used and could be used in the future to accelerate deployments of clean energy technologies in emerging markets. It then analyzes how concessional funds may be effectively deployed in the future, and in what types of markets concessional finance can generate the greatest impact by driving down technology costs, creating and de-risking markets, and opening doors for commercial finance.

This study reviews concessional finance efforts of the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) Clean Technology Fund (CTF) in five countries: Chile, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, and Thailand. The CTF was established to provide scaled-up financing to developing countries for the demonstration, deployment, and transfer of low-carbon technologies with a significant potential for long-term greenhouse-gas emissions savings.

This evaluation seeks to understand the concept of the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) programmatic approach and how it has been applied. The evaluation aims to inform future enhancements to the programmatic approach in CIF recipient countries and identify good practice examples for the benefit of other climate finance mechanisms.

The CIF’s programmatic approach brings systems-level thinking and solutions at scale to help countries meet their climate ambitions and is often cited as one of the CIF’s distinctive features and comparative advantages. It is centered around developing country-led investment plans and thematic programs supported by multi-lateral development bank (MDB) collaboration. The programmatic approach is part of the original design of the CIF and remains its main modality of delivery for all four of CIF’s programs: The Clean Technology Fund (CTF), Pilot Program for Climate Resilience (PPCR), Forest Investment Program (FIP), and Scaling Up Renewable Energy Program in Low Income Countries (SREP).

This evaluation seeks to understand the Climate Investment Funds’ (CIF) contribution to transformational change toward low-carbon and climate-resilient development in the areas of mitigation, resilience, and forestry. The evaluation aims to bring about more transformative climate programming by providing findings to improve the design and delivery of existing CIF programs; inform the operation of other climate funds; help design future climate finance initiatives; and aid those engaged in monitoring, evaluation, and learning for climate funds.

This evaluation does not seek to evaluate CIF’s overall performance but rather to understand how, and to what extent, CIF has been able to contribute to transformational change. A theory-based approach is used exploring the mechanisms of how and under what circumstances transformational change takes place and identifying the role that CIF has played in these changes.

These analytical documents provide policy-applied research into skill needs for greener economies. The research is based on 32 country studies worldwide with a primary focus on good practice examples of how national policies for greening economies are complemented by identification of skills needs and efficient skills response strategies. Background studies are available for Barbados, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kyrgyz Republic, Senegal, Mauritius, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Egypt, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Mali, Philippines, Uganda, South Africa, Tajikistan, and the United Arab Emirates. 

This analytical document provides an extensive piece of empirical research and modeling on skills for a greener future, offering new insights into likely occupational skill effects in declining and growing industries by 2030 based on two global quantitative scenarios. Evidence of good practices collected in the surveyed countries demonstrates how skills development can underpin the green transition.

Le plan de leçon se compose d’un ensemble d’outils d’enseignement et d’un résumé, présenté sous la forme d’un guide étape par étape.

Le contenu d’un plan de leçon décrit comment un sujet dans une discipline particulière comme la physique, l’humanité, l’économie ou la biologie peut être enseigné en utilisant des exemples, des études de cas et des exercices liés au changement climatique.

Les éducateurs peuvent utiliser ces plans de leçon comme aides supplémentaires ou les intégrer à leurs modules d’enseignement existants.

El Plan de la lección consiste en un conjunto de herramientas de enseñanza y una redacción, empaquetadas en forma de una guía paso a paso.

El contenido de un Plan de Lección describe cómo se puede enseñar un tema en una disciplina en particular, como la Física, la Humanidad, la Economía o la Biología, utilizando ejemplos, estudios de caso y ejercicios relacionados con el cambio climático.

Los educadores pueden utilizar estos Planes de Lecciones como ayudas suplementarias o pueden integrarlos con sus módulos de enseñanza existentes.

 Lesson Plan consists of a set of teaching tools and a write-up, packaged in the form of a step-by-step guide.

The content in a Lesson Plan describes how a topic in a particular discipline such as Physics, Humanity, Economics or Biology can be taught by using examples, case studies, and exercises related to climate change.

Educators can use these Lesson Plans as supplementary aids or can integrate them with their existing teaching modules.

This Action Plan is part of the WBG 2025 Climate Change Targets that expand the commitments made under the WBG 2016 Climate Change Action Plan and increase the emphasis on adaptation and resilience. Special attention will be given to vulnerable populations, including the poor, those affected by fragility, conflict, and violence, and small island states. At the same time, to reduce the negative impacts of climate change worldwide, the WBG will also encourage countries to deliver on their commitments to reduce emissions.

The Action Plan is structured around three objectives:

-Boost adaptation financing: expanding access to and the effectiveness of additional climate adaptation finance;
-Drive a mainstreamed, whole-of-government programmatic approach: mainstreaming systematic climate risk management at the country and sector levels;
-Develop a new rating system: better tracking and incentivizing global progress on adaptation and resilience.

The UN CC:Learn annual report 2018 includes key activities at global and national levels to advance climate literacy as well as new partnerships and achievements. 

The Climate Adaptation in Rural Development – Assessment Tool (CARD) is a platform to explore the effects of climate change on the yield of major crops. It is intended to support the quantitative integration of climate-related risks in agricultural and rural development investments and strategies, including economic and financial analyses (EFA).

This tool provides data for 17 major crops in nearly all African countries. It is currently available for North Africa, West and Central Africa, and East and Southern Africa. All IFAD regions will be available in the course of 2019. 

This toolkit provides school students with an illustrated encyclopedia about global climate change in an interesting, attractive and entertaining way. It also includes as recommendations to teachers on the use of its resources in the school curriculum.

The Climate Box consists of:

• An illustrated textbook for students with educational materials and a variety of questions and tasks for individuals and groups, as well as guidelines for teachers on the use of the toolkit during lessons for students in different age groups;
• The Climate Quiz – a set of game cards;
• A wall map illustrating the possible effects of climate change on nature and mankind in various parts of the world by the end of the 21st century;
• A poster with tips on how to reduce carbon footprint;
•A disk with all of the toolkit materials.

Through these materials, readers will learn how the Earth’s climate has changed from the earliest geological epochs, what climate changes are happening now, how these changes affect nature and humanity, whether we can adapt to the inevitable impacts, how to prevent the most dangerous consequences of global warming, and what is already being done in different regions of the world.

This document shows how taking the right measures to strengthen knowledge management can ensure that climate information is captured, tailored and disseminated to users that need it.