Opportunities in Funding Efforts Towards Decarbonisation and Climate Change Adaptation
According to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), climate finance refers to local, national or transnational financing – drawn from public, private and alternative sources of financing – that seeks to support mitigation and adaptation actions that will address climate change.
The Convention, the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement call for financial assistance from Parties with more financial resources to those that are less endowed and more vulnerable. This recognises that the contribution of countries to climate change and their capacity to prevent it and cope with its consequences vary enormously.
Climate finance is needed for mitigation, because large-scale investments are required to significantly reduce emissions. Climate finance is equally important for adaptation, as significant financial resources are needed to adapt to the adverse effects and reduce the impacts of a changing climate. Against this background and based on the need to discuss the principles of practice of climate financing, the "Symposium on Climate Finance: Opportunies in Funding Efforts Towards Decarbonisation and Climate Change Adaptation" is being organised by the European School of Sustainability Science and Research (Germany), the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme and the UK Consortium for Sustainability Research and Liverpool John Moores University.
The Symposium is an unprecedented event, mobilising the scientific and finance community, and geared towards a topic of central important in global efforts to tackle climate change and its many impacts. It is a hybrid event, meaning that apart from on-line presentations, we will also cater for an on-line participation.
The Symposium is an unprecedented event, mobilising the scientific and finance community, and geared towards a topic of central important in global efforts to tackle climate change and its many impacts. It is a hybrid event, meaning that apart from on-line presentations, we will also cater for an on-line participation.
