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17 Int'l Env't Agreements: Pol. L. & Econs. 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/intenve17 and id is 1 raw text is: Int Environ Agreements (2017) 17:1-16
DOI 10.1007/s10784-016-9349-2

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Special issue: managing fragmentation and complexity
in the emerging system of international climate finance
Jonathan Pickering' - Carola Betzold2 - Jakob Skovgaard3
Published online: 25 January 2017
© The Author(s) 2017. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com
Abbreviations
ADB        Asian Development Bank
CDM        Clean Development Mechanism
CBDR       Common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities
COP        Conference of the Parties
GCF        Green Climate Fund
GEF        Global Environment Facility
ODA        Official development assistance
OECD       Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
UNFCCC     United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

Climate finance occupies the lion's share of funding under international environmental
agreements (UNEP 2012: 467-469), and its volume is likely to increase substantially if
current multilateral targets are fulfilled. At the landmark summit under the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Paris in 2015, countries rec-
ognized the urgent need to enhance the provision of finance to assist developing
® Jakob Skovgaard
jakob.skovgaard@ svet.lu.se
Jonathan Pickering
jonathan.pickering@canberra.edu.au
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, Canberra,
ACT, Australia
2  University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
3  Lund University, Lund, Sweden

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