Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-2012
Abstract
In 2008, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) estimated that investments of between US$540–570 billion in physical assets and other financial flows will be needed to adequately reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to combat climate change; additionally, tens and possibly hundreds of billions of dollars may be necessary to enable countries to adapt to the phenomenon’s challenges. Through climate negotiations under the UNFCCC in Copenhagen and Cancun, developed country governments committed to provide developing countries roughly US$30 billion between 2010 and 2012 and to mobilize approximately US$100 billion per year by 2020 for climate change activities. Due to those high costs, and the relatively low sums governments are willing and able to directly provide for mitigation and adaptation, much of that funding for climate change-related efforts will have to come from the private sector. Timely mobilization of that capital will require coordination between the public and private sector to “scale up, shift and optimize” investment and financial flows contributing to climate change mitigation and adaptation. Governments must therefore adopt policies and implement tools furthering that coordination.
Disciplines
Antitrust and Trade Regulation | Environmental Law | Human Rights Law | International Humanitarian Law | International Law | International Trade Law | Land Use Law | Law | Natural Resources Law | Oil, Gas, and Mineral Law | Securities Law | Transnational Law
Recommended Citation
Lise Johnson,
Addressing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Through Insurance for Overseas Investments: The Example of the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation,
(2012).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sustainable_investment_staffpubs/65
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Comments
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Report.
This text benefitted from input and comments from Aaron Cosbey, Howard Mann and Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder.