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On June 1, CIF launched a new investment platform to scale nature-based solutions, sustain food supply, and build resilient coastal systems across the developing world. The Nature, People and Climate Investment program will promote and protect natural environments known to be integral in addressing climate change. It will also mobilize finance to empower Indigenous peoples and local communities to lead climate action.
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Identifying and understanding the operational barriers and solutions in climate finance can enhance project design and ensure overall effectiveness and efficiency of implementing climate programs. It can also help practitioners and decision-makers be more informed and responsive to the rapidly evolving social, political, economic, and even geographical contexts of the climate crisis. The CDI platform was created for these reasons.
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The rapid disappearance of forests in Cote d’Ivoire is one of the most striking passages of tropical deforestation in the Africa region. Women make important contributions to forest value chains and are heavily involved in forest-related activities, such as reforestation efforts. Through CIF’s Forest Investment Program, the Ivorian Government, with the support of the World Bank, reforestation and conservation activities to increase Côte d’Ivoire’s forest stock are underway with a specific window to involve women in sustainable forest management.
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Habitat loss, increased urbanization and wide-spread pesticide use all contribute to the dramatic declines of global bee populations. An arguably more troubling cause is due to climate change and its associated effects, particularly increased temperatures. The significant contribution of all bees to worldwide health and wealth cannot be underestimated. The US Dept of Agriculture values the American Honeybee alone to be worth $14 billion annually to its economy.
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This guidance note highlights good practices for gender integration in CIF’s project design. It starts from CIF’s commitment to support transformational change and climate-smart development for both women and men, and builds on the requirements for gender integration in the project design, set out by the CIF Gender Policy and the gender policies of multilateral development banks (MDB). It lays out three basic steps to CIF project teams for effective gender integration: analysis, action, and indicators.
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CIF aims to advance both gender equality and achieve climate-smart development. Since climate change impacts are not gender-neutral, a gender-responsive, socially just, and inclusive strategy is needed. This study’s objective is to understand the quality of gender integration in CIF’sinvestment plan and project portfolio at entry, as well as review the reporting on gender results.
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In a recent webinar hosted by the Transformational Change Learning Partnership (TCLP), around 70 participants and a panel of experts came together to engage on the topic of “Transformational Climate Finance: How Can Multi-Stakeholder Finance Models Drive Rapid and Just Responses to the Climate Crisis?” Public, private, and philanthropic sources of funding all have important, and potentially complimentary, roles to play but substantial work is needed to clarify how these sources work together.
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CIF expertise on transformational change at OEDC/DAC webinar
CIF recently shared its expertise in climate finance at a webinar hosted by the OECD/DAC Network on Environment and Development Cooperation (ENVIRONET) on May 18, 2022. The event, entitled “Advancing the Work for Transformative Change – CIF and the Case of Mexico,” explored how CIF’s transformational change framework was applied to Mexico’s forestry sector and the country’s progress towards a low-carbon, climate-resilient rural economy. Key points to emerge from the webinar centered around how deep, fundamental systems change is essential for transformational change. This includes addressing underlying drivers and root causes of climate and development challenges, such as power imbalances, historical vulnerabilities, and vested interests.
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