International Climate Policy
Stabilizing the Earth's climate will require unprecedented international cooperation.
Indeed, nations are actively negotiating the terms of the next global climate agreement.
Leaders of the world’s major economies are attending climate and energy summits, and new
global cooperative arrangements are likely to emerge. Regional climate policy frameworks,
including the European Union’s emissions trading system, are evolving rapidly as well.
Building on its extensive diplomatic experience and global network, Climate
Advisers is helping government, nonprofit, and business clients shape this
next phase of international cooperation for the better.
Recent Work
October 2011
Climate Advisers' Abigail Jones, Nigel Purvis and Andrew Stevenson examine the World Bank's proposal to phase out lending for new coal-fired power plants in middle-income countries, and argue that the World Bank should allocate scarce multilateral development funding for other pressing investments that cannot attract private capital as easily.
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October 2011
Samuel Grausz summarizes the state of knowledge on the social cost of coal-fired power plants in an effort to help inform ongoing policy discussions at the World Bank.
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July 2011
Interest in low emissions development is growing in many parts of the world for both climate and non-climate reasons, yet gaps in knowledge and implementation capacity are evident. In a new discussion paper for Resources for the Future, Nigel Purvis and Abigail Jones call for the creation of a semiformal international coordinating entity to enrich country-specific low emissions development activities by building knowledge and capacity as well as enhancing the scale and predictability of funds.
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March 2011
This essay focuses on promising opportunities for climate action
amid the policy recession in the western world. Both Europe and
the United States are reforming traditional domestic policies and
improved coordination between donor agencies can yield strong
bilateral and multilateral low-emission development programs.
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December 2010
This paper represents a joint effort between Climate Advisers and Project
Catalyst, to help convey an important truth: the United States must find the
political will to lead on international climate finance, and doing so is possible
despite current economic and political conditions.
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Document Summary »
November 2010
This paper presents a new theory of change for international
climate action based on the concept of green growth. It also aims to connect
this way of thinking to today's global climate diplomacy
and suggests a practical way forward. The focus
is almost exclusively on the challenge of emissions
mitigation in developing nations.
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November 2010
This essay expounds upon the previous paper - Jumpstart Global Green Growth -
by anticipating nations reactions to the changing climate change politics, specifically at the upcoming 16th annual installment of global climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico.
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March 2010
In this paper, the authors argue that the most dangerous
thing Europe and the United States could do is ignore
the strategic implications of Copenhagen and fall back
into old strategies with a new sense of patience.
They recommend a fundamental shift in thinking.
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August 2009
In this paper for the German Marshall Fund, Climate Advisers president Nigel
Purvis draws a blueprint for a new transatlantic climate change partnership-one
that could serve as the basis for a joint approach to China, India, and other
emerging economies.
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