April 16, 2012
By Mr Phillip Gwage- one of the founders of the Least Developed Countries Environmental Centre in Uganda.
High levels of poverty and low levels of development characterise Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and some African countries. The majority of the population in these countries cannot meet their basic human needs such as access to clean and safe water, adequate energy for cooking and lighting, due to a host of barriers including poor infrastructure and high costs of...
April 12, 2012
By Richard Calland, an Associate Professor in Public Law at the University of Cape Town, and Nancy Dubosse, an independent development economist, lead the new Climate Finance Hub initiative.
The financing of climate action has entered a watershed period. Either the momentum in favour of a substantial global fund to support both mitigation and adaptation efforts internationally– encouraged by the establishment of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at COP17 – will be sustained, or it...