Financing Climate Action Working Group

Contacts - Members - Documents

Earlier in the year, nrg4SD launched a Technical Working Group on Financing Climate Action. This Working Group seeks to create capacity on carbon finance mechanisms among its member in order to enable them to set their own plans and tools, and shapes nrg4SD’s advocacy work towards the territorial dimension of international carbon finance mechanisms. The Working Group coordinator and nrgr4SD Secretariat in close consultation with Working Group members have elaborted a 2011 Work Programme for the Group.

Contacts

For more information please contact directly the Working Group coordinator or the nrg4SD Secretariat.

Working Group coordinator: Region of Brittany (France)

Mr Renaud Layadi
Adviser for International Networks
Directorate for Climate, the Environment, Water and Biodiversity
Regional Council of Brittany (France)
renaud.layadi@region-bretagne.fr
Tel: +33 (0)2 99 27 14 46   


Members

Subnational governments members of this Working Group are:

Aquitaine (France), Basque Country (Spain) , Brittany (France), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Catalonia (Spain), Flanders (Belgium), Mbale (Uganda),  PACA (France), Québec (Canada), Rhônes-Alpes (France), São Paulo (Brazil), Wales (United Kingdom) and Wallonia (Belgium).


Documents

Documents of this Working Group classified by meeting dates are available below.

Launch Meeting
Date: 23 March 2011
Venue: Permanent Delegation of Brittany to the EU - Rond-Point Schuman 14  - Brussels, Belgium - Map

• Presentation of the Working Group from the coordinator
• Draft Minutes

First Technical Meeting
Date: 17 May 2011   15:30-17:30
Venue: Welsh Assembly Government EU Office - Rond-Point Schuman 11 - Brussels, Belgium - Map

• Agenda
• Draft Minutes
• Presentation of CDC Climat - Detailed programme - Powerpoints: Slides on Kyoto flexibility mechanisms - Slides on carbon fund for regions
• Presentation of Aquitaine - Powerpoint slides - Background documents
• Synthesis of the presentations by Mathieu Bechet, PACA Region Delegation in Brussels (FR)

Recommended bibliography

• nrg4SD overviews and guides on UNFCCC available from here.
• Association des Régions Françaises - Etude de l'opportunité des marchés carbone pour les Régions de France (FR)

CDC Climat publications in EN, FR and ES

• Cities and Carbon Market Finance (EN)
• Carbon markets: the simple facts (EN)
• The European Carbon Market in action: lessons from the First Trading Period - Interim report (EN)
• Expanding the means to combat climate change through domestic offsets projects (EN)
• Cancun: Year One of the Post-Copenhagen Era (EN)
• Developing a CDM or JI project to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (EN)
• Villes et finance carbone (FR)
• Les marchés du carbone expliqués (FR)
• Le marché européen du carbone en action : enseignements de la première phase - Rapport intermédiaire (FR)
• Elargir les instruments d'action contre le changement climatique grâce aux projects domestiques (FR)
• Cancun : l'an un de l'après Copenhague (FR)
• Changement climatique, instruments économiques et négociations internationales - Kit pédagogique (FR)
• Guía al Desarrollo Limpio – Una introducción a los Mercados de Créditos de Carbono y al Mecanismo de Desarrollo Limpio (ES)

Interview with former UNFCCC Executive Secretary Mr Yvo De Boer

• Bring private sector into UN climate talks (EN) (FR)

Second Technical Meeting

Date: 7 June 2011   15:00
Venue: Königshoff Hotel - Adenauerallee 9 - Bonn, Germany - Map

• Agenda

Recommended bibliography

CdC Climat publications in EN and FR

• What is needed for the future of greenhouse gas project based mechanisms beyond 2012 (EN)
• Conforter le futur des mécanismes de projets réducteurs de gaz à effet de serre au-delà de 2012 (FR)

Third Technical Meeting

Date: 29 August 2011   14:40 - 16:45
Venue: Hotel Le Congrès - City of Québec - Québec

• Agenda
• Presentation of CDC Climat - Mr Pierre Ducret, Director General and Mr Emmanuel Legrand, Deputy Director for Investments - Project-based mechanisms - Making a project happen

Recommended bibliography

• Work Programme on Financing Climate Action Working Group
• nrg4SD advocacy and position papers
• Background and technical documents

Fourth Techincal Meeting:

Date: 12 October 2011   10:00 - 16:00
Venue: Delegation of the Basque Country-Euskadi - 27, Rue des Deux Eglises, Brussels, Belgium - Map

• Agenda

Recommended bibliography

• 'Carbon credits tarnished by human rights 'disgrace' Euractiv article (EN)

CDC Climat publications in FR

• 'Comprendre la finance carbone' - Fonctionnement - Enjeux - Avenir. (FR)