Wealthy nations…committed, first in 2009 and again in 2015 under the Paris climate agreement, to a collective goal: $100 billion a year in grants, loans, private sector investments and more by 2020. More than a decade after the first pledge was made, nations have yet to meet their promis...
Grants have been canceled mid-project for featuring the wrong words. “Pauses” and “reviews” are designed to block spending, in the hope that Congress will make the current impoundment of funds a baseline for permanent disinvestment. While the scientific community waits to see what the new ...
Countries thus prefer to free-ride on the emissions abatement (i.e., reduction of emissions) of others over reducing their own emissions8,9. The implied tragedy is that if countries pursue their own interests in this way, everyone will be worse off than if they had cooperated and acted in...
India and Brazil are also emerging as international providers of climate finance [31]. Despite the fact that these countries do not have a formal international climate finance program like China, they have provided loans, grants, and technical assistance to other developing countries. For example, ...
and political marginalization. U.S. local governments have a unique opportunity to improve these conditions by planning for and investing in equitable climate adaptation. The unprecedented levels of grants for climate adaptation, combined with the public’s heightened awareness due to the increasing freq...
Under all scenarios of MRI-ESM-2.0, the reduction of rainfall is expected to reach 0.1–15% (2040s) and 0.02–17% (2070s), respectively. Projection of climatic variables Figures 8 and 9 showed the variations in average climatic variables (tasmax, tasmin, and precipitation) of all ...
http://www.climatechange.gov.au/climate-change/grants/australian-climate-change-science-program, http://www.climatechange.gov.au/climate-change/grants/australian-climate-change-science-program http://www.seaci.org/, http://www.seaci.org/ CSIRO: Climate and water availability in south-eastern ...
The forms of financial aid for ODA can be divided into three categories: grants, concessional loans, and technical assistance (Trumbull & Wall, 1994). The donor countries have high decision-making power in the use of ODA, contrary to the UN membership dues, and they will choose the ...
There has not yet been any action taken to address this issue, but if the trend continues some form of individual action – e.g., modification of private land – may be needed to generate the adaptation public good of flood risk reduction. Another example of the absence of the privately ...
Philanthropic grants to address climate change were on the upswing before the pandemic, said Larry Kramer, president of the Hewlett Foundation, which took part in the methane reduction commitment. Momentum stalled as the pandemic took its toll and the Glasgow meetings were postponed. Now ...