Climate Finance and Climate Solutions
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is soliciting climate finance and climate solutions papers with the aim of providing recommendations for climate action in Asian jurisdictions.
The Asian Development Bank believes that developing countries face challenges in climate finance and find it difficult to apply advanced climate technologies for regional development. Climate finance and climate solutions papers can provide innovative policies and technologies to help them address climate change.
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Papers on Climate Finance and Climate Solutions
This paper solicitation is divided into two themes, namely climate finance and climate solutions. Climate finance includes private or public financing within jurisdictions and external financing, which can be preferential or non preferential, as well as from bilateral or multilateral organizations. The paper needs to involve climate finance research in developing countries, and can also discuss sustainable development financing because they are similar. Submissions on Climate Finance may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Adaptation finance gap.
- Nurturing voluntary carbon credit markets.
- Impacts of the EU’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) on emerging markets and developing economies (EDMEs).
- Disaster-triggered financial instruments.
- Climate and other risk insurance and resilience.
- Debt sustainability analysis, debt relief.
- Energy transition mechanism.
- More funding for nature-based climate solutions with increased greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation.
- Impacts of information disclosure related to climate change on EMDEs.
- Innovative climate finance (such as green and blue bonds and loans, sustainability or sustainability-related bonds and loans, and debt climate swap).
- Loss and damage fund.
- MDBs’ evolution or reform.
- Funding for climate-smart agriculture for adaptation and mitigation in developing countries.
- Low-cost green building for energy efficiency.
- Financing for green transportation and behavioral change for sustainable transport systems.
- Financial strategy for enhancing biodiversity-climate-SDGs synergies.
- Supporting sustainable forest management for carbon sink and water conservation.
- Transparent and efficient carbon markets and accounting.
- Financing local and community-based solutions for adaptation, mitigation, and nature conservation.
Climate solutions refer to technological applications related to mitigating or adapting to climate change. As developing countries need to achieve climate and sustainable development goals, it is preferable for a paper to evaluate and compare potential climate solutions from a cost-effectiveness and scalability perspective, and describe their impact on different sustainable development goals. Submissions on Climate Solutions may include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Adaptation goal and framework.
- Catalyzing biodiversity-climate-pollution synergies.
- Transformational adaptation or mitigation in water and sanitation, food and agriculture, ecosystems, infrastructure, health, livelihoods, or cultural heritage.
- Scaling better-priced carbon markets.
- Energy storage.
- CCS or CCUS technology.
- Data-driven solutions to just energy transition.
- Digital-green industrial policy in developing countries as a solution to SDGs and climate resilience.
- Early warning system, evidence, challenges, and solution .
- Green shipping technology.
- Green or sustainable procurement.
- Green economy.
- Nature-based solutions to SDGs and GHG mitigation.
- Nuclear fusion power generation.
- Catalyzing ocean-climate synergy.
- Circular economy.
- Digital technology as a solution to adaptation or GHG emissions reduction.
- Planned relocation.
- Solutions to challenges in scaling up the collection of weather and climate data.
- UN Climate Convention’s REDD+.
The Asian Development Bank requires researchers to submit a draft paper of approximately 3000 to 4000 words by September 6, 2024, and mark the selected topic during the submission process. The Asian Development Bank will notify on September 20th which papers have been selected. Selected authors are required to submit a complete paper of approximately 8000 words by October 31st. The electronic version of the paper will be published by the Asian Development Bank during the COP29 conference in November. Some authors may be invited to present papers virtually to the Africa-Asia-Pacific Climate Finance Forum organized by ADB.
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