29 July, 2010In the lead-up to the next World Summit on Climate Change, FES releases international policy paper exploring three fundamental approaches to financing green and sustainable energy.
GLOBAL: With the next World Summit on Climate Change approaching, a new International Policy Analysis was released by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) in July. The author, Michael T. Clark, explores three fundamental approaches to financing green and sustainable energy policies.
At the next World Summit on Climate Change, which will take place from November 29 to December 10 in Cancun, Mexico, the international community once again faces the challenge to reach an internationally binding agreement on climate protection.
One of the main controversial issues remains the question of which funding mechanisms for the mitigation and adaptation of climate change will allow for a fair balance of interests between industrial and emerging countries as well as developing countries and how can these be managed in a transparent manner.
The FES paper, Governance Challenges in Financing Green and Sustainable Energy Policies, was written in the context of a series of international expert roundtables on energy and climate policy organized by FES. The publication is based on the results of a conference in Washington and aims to promote dialogue between industrial, emerging and developing countries and to contribute to finding common ground in the international energy and climate policy.
Find a copy of the paper at: http://www.fes.de/cgi-bin/gbv.cgi?id=07315&ty=pdf