A Matter of Principle(s)

A Normative Framework for a Global Compact on Public Climate Finance

The anthropogenic origin of global climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions today should no longer be disputed. Climate change’s adverse effect on people can also no longer be ignored. While the last few years have seen the emergence of new financing structures and mechanisms for adaptation and mitigation, a comprehensive global climate finance architecture that collects, allocates and disburses financial resources in an equita-ble, effective and efficient manner is still elusive.

This publication gives a look at the status quo of public climate change finance. Then it proposes the use of existing core principles and tools of international environmental law and human rights as the fundamental conceptual guide and compass for charting policy responses to climate change that are rooted in the concept of justice and fairness. The paper will discuss those rules, norms and principles in greater detail that apply more specifically to the mobilization, administration and governance as well as allocation and disbursement of public climate change funds within a climate justice framework.

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A Matter of Principle(s)
Editor	Heinrich Böll Foundation
Place of publication	Berlin
Date of publication	March 2011
Pages	112
ISBN	978-3-86928-049-3
Service charge	Free of charge