OECD side events at Barcelona Climate Change Talks, 2-6 November

FINANCING FOR ENHANCED CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION: MITIGATION AND ADAPTATION

Tuesday 3 November 2009

• Overall financial architecture & MRV of financial support 
  Jan Corfee-Morlot (OECD-AIXG)
  Full paper: "Financing Climate Change Mitigation: Towards a Framework for Measurement, Reporting and Verification" by Jan Corfee-Morlot, Bruno Guay (OECD) and Kate Larsen (IEA).
  
  
• Delivery of development finance to support climate change action
  Rémy Paris (OECD) (no powerpoint presentation)
  Background documents: "Climate Change & Development: Key Principles to Inform Climate Change Financing" and "Integrating Climate Change Adaptation into Development Co-operation, Policy Guidance".
  
  
• Matching support with actions and the role of registries 
  Jane Ellis (OECD-AIXG)
  Background paper: "Reporting and Recording Post-2012 GHG Mitigation Commitments, Actions and Support" by Jane Ellis (OECD), Sara Moarif (IEA)and Joy Aeree Kim (OECD)

Discussants:  Leif Ervik (Norway); Kaveh Zahedi (UNEP)

www.oecd.org/env/cc/financing

Financing Climate Change Action, Supporting Technology Transfer and Development. Key messages and recommendations from recent OECD work (8-page booklet)

The OECD is ready to assist G20 countries in their efforts to find lasting solutions to finance action on climate change, building on the long-standing work of the organisation to share country experiences and identify lessons learnt and policy recommendations for good practice.

www.oecd.org/env/cc/aixg

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTS) AND CLIMATE CHANGE

Thursday 5 November

OECD, ITU, GeSI and international partners discussed in Barcelona how ICTs can help combat global warming. Innovation in ICTs is key to achieving ambitious CO2 emissions reductions.

UNFCCC website on Barcelona Climate Change Talks