郁 宇青

Key messages: 1. Technological absorptive capacity (consisting of the factors of general governance and business climate, basic technological literacy, access to finance, and technologically proactive policies) is the key determinant of successful technology transfer. Access to finance is one necessary but insufficient condition for technology...

The Session 9 of the 2014 Asia Leadership Program on Sustainable Development and Climate Change, co-organized by ADB and KDI, focused on the discussion of different financing options and mechanisms and clarification of strategies for resource mobilization for sustainable development and climate change projects. This presentation provided IGES...

NAMA finance aims to effectively mobilize financial resources for developing countries to use in formulating and implementing NAMAs. There are also various other non-financially based schemes that can be used as support when preparing and implementing NAMAs. NAMAs tend to have a greater focus on integrating climate policy actions with the...

This paper focuses on East and South Asian countries, but does not include Pacific islands. The paper looks at two distinctive periods—the pre-fast start finance (pre-FSF) period (2006-2010) and the fast-start finance (FSF) period (2010-2012)—to track the different climate finance trends in Asia. The paper further identifies the countries as either...

Recently, negotiations have intensified over a post-2020 framework to address climate change. This framework is applicable to all the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and one of the most contentious issues is how diverse Parities with different national circumstances should contribute to the mitigation of greenhouse...