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POLICY PAPERS
November 01, 2023
Central to implementation of the Paris Agreement are questions of “fair shares”: who might contribute what and whether the group of contributors should be expanded. There is a case for nontraditional donors providing 20-30 percent of any total, while developed countries continue to take primary resp...
Blog Post
November 01, 2023
With just a month to go before COP28, the question of climate finance is threatening to derail the negotiations. Failure to deliver on past promises have damaged trust, and current discussions around both the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) and especially the promised Loss and Damage (L&D) Fun...
Blog Post
October 31, 2023
The World Bank is the largest provider of climate adaptation finance to the world’s poorest countries. Adaptation finance assists countries to reduce the risks they face from climate change such as disease outbreak and rising sea levels. Lower-income countries (LICs) receive highly concessional fina...
Blog Post
October 26, 2023
Green-skilled labour migration could support the green transition, and yield major benefits for both development and carbon emissions. But what skills does the UK need? How reliable are the UK’s domestic training pipelines? What are the prospects for deliberate international recruitment?
Nov
15
2023
VIRTUAL
10:00—11:30 AM EDT | 3:00 - 4:30 PM GMT
October 18, 2023
On October 1st, the 3-year transition period of the EU CBAM Regulation will begin. Starting in 2026, importers of certain carbon-intensive goods will be required to pay the EU carbon price for emissions embedded in these goods. Applied for iron and steel, cement, fertilizers, aluminium, electricity,...
Nov
16
2023
VIRTUAL
9:00—10:30 AM ET | 2:00 - 3:30 PM GMT
October 13, 2023
The Center for Global Development and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung will bring together policymakers and researchers from the G7, Europe, and Africa to discuss the potential of the Global Gateway (GG) initiative and the Partnership for Global Investment and Infrastructure (PGII) in fulfilling Africa's ne...
CGD NOTES
September 25, 2023
More than 190 countries have pledged under the 2015 Paris Agreement to reduce carbon emissions, including from fossil fuel consumption, by 2030 to avoid the negative effects of rising global temperatures. However, there is a large gap between what countries have committed to do and what needs to be ...
Blog Post
September 13, 2023
Olu Verheijen from the Nigerian government and Vijaya Ramachandran from the Breakthrough Institute join Gyude to discuss the scale and nature of the energy crisis in Africa, the role that renewable energy can (and can't) play in addressing it, and what steps African countries—and partners—can take t...
Oct
5
2023
HYBRID
London, UK
11:00—12:30 PM EDT | 4 - 5.30 PM BST
September 07, 2023
This event, co-hosted by Malala Fund and the Center for Global Development, will highlight the links between education and climate change. How can education, especially for girls, be resilient to climate change? We will explore these issues with a panel of experts spanning research, governance, and ...