Chapter 12: International Support

Recommended materials

Joëlle de Sépibus, “Green Climate Fund: How Attractive Is It to Donor Countries?” (2015) 9:4 Carbon & Climate Law Review 298

Website of the Climate Finance Landscape, run by the World Resource Institute

Ahmed Abdel-Latif, “Intellectual property rights and the transfer of climate change technologies: Issues, challenges, and way forward” (2015) 15:1 Climate Policy 103

Supplementary materials

Damilola S. Olawuyi, The Human Rights-Based Approach to Carbon Finance (Cambridge University Press, 2016)

Alexander Zahar, Climate Change Finance and International Law (Routledge, 2017)

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D Puig, “The mismatch between the in-country determinants of technology transfer, and the scope of technology transfer initiatives under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change”

International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (forthcoming) link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10784-018-9405-1

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W.M. Fonta, E.T. Ayuk & T van Huysen, “Africa and the Green Climate Fund: current challenges and future opportunities”

Climate Policy (forthcoming) "Although the Green Climate Fund (GCF) is widely commendable in several ways, access to the Fund has been very challenging for many African countries. Using GCF published statistics, we identify possible challenges likely to be responsible for this. First, we present an assessment of the GCF’s Readiness Support Programme with respect to …

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