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This section offers a selection of our most recent research, analyses, and reports on how finance is being used to address climate change. You'll find information on investment trends, funding opportunities, and the economic aspects of initiatives aimed at reducing carbon emissions and enhancing resilience to climate impacts.

Climate Finance

Climate Finance Handbook to the Thai Parliament

This handbook supports Parliament members and officials in integrating climate finance into roles like lawmaking, oversight, and budgeting. It enhances capacity to review budgets addressing climate change, focusing on mitigation, adaptation, and inclusion for sustainable development in Thailand.

Climate Finance

Technical Brief on Decision-Making framework For Carbon Pricing in Asia

This paper examines how decisions are made in setting prices for carbon emissions. It discusses different methods used to tackle these choices, focusing on the balance of economic benefits against social and environmental impacts.

Guidelines

UNDP Global Climate Public Finance Review

The global climate public finance review provides a stock-take and analysis of the reforms introduced globally to integrate climate change into public financial management (PFM) systems. The review makes use of an adapted version of the ‘green PFM’ framework for structure and analysis.

Guidebook

Guidebook on how to Access Climate Finance for Member States od the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

The technical guidebook provides an overview of climate finance in the region and sources of climate finance flows, as well as the project development process to access sources of climate finance. It also highlights the development of an overall framework to mobilize and access climate finance.

Climate Finance

Budgeting for a Greener Planet

The aims of the assessment are to understand progress to date in establishing accountability systems for climate change finance, draw lessons, and guide actors — both global and domestic — on entry points to strengthen systems.

Guidelines

Guidelines: Gender-responsive and Socially Inclusive Climate Cost-Benefit Analysis

The aim of the Gender-responsive and socially inclusive climate cost-benefit analysis (CCBA) is to facilitate factoring potential climate change impacts into a conventional project cost-benefit analysis, and ensuring robust evaluation and selection criteria for enhanced social welfare impact.

Guidelines

Knowing What You Spend: A guidance note for governments to track climate change finance in their budgets

Climate Budget Tagging (CBT) is one of a set of climate related finance tools designed to help countries mainstream climate change in public financial management in order to mitigate the economic, social and environmental impacts of climate change.

Guidance Note

Budgeting for Climate Change: A Guidance Note for Governments to Integrate Climate Change into Budgeting

This Guidance Note draws on the experiences in climate budgeting that emerge from Asia-Pacific countries and captures emerging global trends with adopted principles and steps involved. It builds on the work of UNDP as a technical partner in the Coalition of Finance Ministers for Climate Action.

Guidelines

Climate Public Expenditure and Institutional Review (CPEIR) – Methodological Note

Climate Finance

Nepal Climate Citizen Budget - 2019

The Nepal Citizens Climate Budget for 2018/19 outlines how the government manages climate-related finances. It serves as a resource for citizens, CSOs, journalists, and policymakers to understand governmental actions on climate change.

Climate Finance

Nepal's Citizen Climate Budget Booklet - 2017

The Nepal Citizens Climate Budget for 2017/16 outlines how the government manages climate-related finances. It serves as a resource for citizens, CSOs, journalists, and policymakers to understand governmental actions on climate change.

Guidebook on how to Access Climate Finance for Member States od the Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Technical Brief on Decision-Making framework For Carbon Pricing in Asia

This paper examines how decisions are made in setting prices for carbon emissions. It discusses different methods used to tackle these choices, focusing on the balance of economic benefits against…

Aligning Sovereign Debt Financing with Climate Action in the Asia-Pacific Region

Development Finance Assessment Guidebook

Integrated Financing Solutions

Hard Choices Integrated Approaches

A Review of Domestic Data Sources for Climate Finance Flows in Recipient Countries

Budgeting for a Greener Planet

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