An Introduction to Climate Finance : Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)

Apply by 1st August 2024 / August 6-13, 2024

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is a public interest research and advocacy organisation based in New Delhi. CSE researches into, lobbies for and communicates the urgency of development that is both sustainable and equitable. The scenario today demands using knowledge to bring about change. In other words, working India’s democracy. This is what we aim to do.The challenge, we see, is two-pronged. On the one hand, millions live within a biomass based subsistence economy, at the margins of survival. The environment is their only natural asset. But a degraded environment means stress on land, water and forest resources for survival. It means increasing destitution and poverty. Here, opportunity to bring about change is enormous.But it will need a commitment to reform – structural reform- in the way we do business with local communities. On the other hand, rapid industrialization is throwing up new problems: growing toxification and a costly disease burden. The answers will be in reinventing the growth model of the Western world for ourselves, so that we can leapfrog technology choices and find new ways of building wealth that will not cost us the earth. Our aim is to raise these concerns, participate in seeking answers and in pushing for answers, transforming these into policy and so practice. We do this through our research and by communicating our understanding through our publications.

Training Fee
Indian participants: Rs. 3,500
Global participants: USD 100
Training Date August 6-13, 2024
Last date for receiving applications August 1, 2024

2024 is the year of climate finance, which is one of the key enablers of climate action. Centre for Science and Environment’s (CSE) Climate Change programme has been closely tracking the landscape of climate finance. As Observers in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the programme informs wider civil society about the negotiations being held on determining a new climate finance target. Beyond the UNFCCC, our research on the global financial architecture has triggered interest in critical issues such as the debt crisis and the high cost of capital for green technologies.

CSE is launching an online training course on climate finance. It is open to civil society members, journalists, government officials, students, professionals or educators looking to understand the key concepts and the broader geopolitical context that the discourse is situated in.

Spread over six working days, the training will expose participants to the interlinkages between the global financial system and climate change, the latest policy developments both within the UNFCCC and beyond it, and the landscape of challenges and opportunities that the world is facing with financing climate efforts. Upon completion, participants will be better informed to ask the right questions pertaining to climate finance, equity and justice.

The training will offer a mix of self-guided reading, live lectures by experts, group and individual assignments, and Q&A with specialists. No prior knowledge of climate finance is required.

Modules

1. Introduction to climate finance concepts
2. How does the global financial system interact with climate change?
3. The UNFCCC and climate finance
4. Beyond the UNFCCC: International financial architecture reform and climate change
5. Sectoral view: Financing renewable energy, e-mobility and industrial decarbonisation

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