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Climate Finance
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Two main issues
• Where to get the money?
• How to spend the money?
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Where to get the money?
• Reallocate fossil fuel subsidies– They greatly exceed climate finance goals
• Money from:– Carbon taxes– Emissions permits– International carbon pricing– Private, bilateral and multilateral sources
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How to spend the money?
• To finance mitigation & adaptation• Mitigation example:
– subsidize clean energy technology – large-scale, multilateral financing– structure per WTO TRIMS, GATT, SCM & IIAs
• Adaptation example: – subsidize subsistence farmers to adopt GMO crops – small scale, national financing– another way to address IPR problem– structure per WTO SCM and Agriculture
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Multilateral Financing Mechanisms
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Multilateral Financing MechanismsWorld Bank
• UNFCCC process and World Bank energy projects have been working at cross purposes
• Fossil fuel subsidies: – are expensive – inflate GHG emissions – mainly benefit middle and upper classes
• Their reduction: – encourages energy efficiency – increases relative attractiveness of renewable energy – frees up resources for poverty alleviation, including
clean energy for those without electricity
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GHG Emission Under Different Scenarios
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Developing Country Fossil Fuel Consumption Subsidies
• 2007: USD 342.15 billion
• 2008: USD 554.44 billion
• 2009: USD 300.14 billion
• 2010: USD 408.8 billion
• 8% of 2010 total reached poorest income group (the bottom 20%)
• Goal of Green Climate Fund: USD 100 billion per year for developing countries
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Percentage of subsidy received by the bottom 20% population
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Vietnam
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Philippines
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South Africa
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Multilateral Financing Mechanisms UNFCCC Green Climate Fund
• Goal: USD 100 billion per year by 2020• Proposed sources:
– 30% emission allowance auctions, domestic carbon taxes – 10% carbon pricing international transportation – 10% redeployment of fossil fuel subsidies in developed countries
or a financial transaction tax – 10% private investment flows – 11% multilateral development banks
• Suggested carbon price USD 20-25 per ton of CO2e• Prioritize funding adaptation for most vulnerable
developing countries & preserving rainforests • World Bank interim trustee, Secretariat South Korea
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Multilateral Financing Mechanisms Kyoto Protocol (Australia, Europe)
• Clean Development Mechanism (certified emission reduction (CER) credits)
• Adaptation Fund (2% of CERs)
• Official Development Assistance
• Mexico City examples: – metrobus, new metro line – European money, European buses & trains– Reduced my carbon footprint
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Climate Finance and WTO Subsidies Law
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Climate Finance and WTO Subsidies Law
• Bilateral foreign aid conditional on the use of suppliers from the donor country
• CDM projects that include bilateral official development assistence similar
• % of CDM projects for which CER recipient was technology supplier – Denmark 91%– Spain 50% – Germany 40% – Japan 37%
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SCM Agreement Article 1.1(a)(1) ‘subsidy’ definition
• ‘a financial contribution by a government or any public body within the territory of a Member’ (emphasis added).
• Does ‘within the territory of a Member’ apply to ‘a government’, ‘public body’ or ‘financial contribution’?
• If the financial contribution must take place within the territory of a Member, – ‘a Member’ could mean the Member that makes the financial
contribution – or could mean any Member.
• Former interpretation might exclude foreign aid from application of SCM Agreement.
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Article 1.1(a)(1) financial contribution
• Bilateral climate financing: could be a direct transfer of funds or some other form of income or price support, depending on the terms of the aid package.
• Multilateral climate financing: might take form of payments to a funding mechanism.
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Article 1.1(b) ‘benefit’
• Foreign aid & CDM logic is investment would not occur without funding.
• The funding creates financing necessary for participation of the donor country’s suppliers.
• Creates opportunity that would not have existed otherwise in the market.
• That could qualify as a benefit. • BUT, if no market benchmark without aid
program, can’t prove benefit is conferred.
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Export subsidies
• Deemed to be specific • Prohibited• Test of contingency in fact is met when the
granting of a subsidy, without having been made legally contingent upon export performance, is in fact tied to actual or anticipated exportation.
• Climate financing subsidy is tied to the exportation to the recipient country.
• Could be a prohibited export subsidy.
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Backward WTO subsidies law
• Fossil fuel subsidies are not generally specific to a domestic industry.
• Clean energy subsidies usually are specific, but might be saved by benefit analysis.
• Specific subsidies can be subject to unilateral or multilateral action.
• Prohibited subsidies are deemed specific.
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Financing Adaptation
Subsistence farmers and GMOs
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Financing Adaptation by Subsistence Farmers
• Climate change will have greater impact on viability of traditional plant varieties in tropical developing countries than in temperate developed countries.
• In developing countries: – greater need for GM seeds to raise yields & adapt to
climate change – larger percentage of population depends on
agriculture (e.g. 50% in India) – poorest depend on subsistence agriculture– rely on collecting seeds to sow future crops
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Subsistence farmers need
• Microfinancing for GMO seeds, fertilizer and herbicides:– to afford adaptation– to raise incomes with increased output
• Microinsurance for crop failure from drought, floods or other natural calamities
• WTO Agreement on Agriculture exemptions should allow.
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Financing Mitigation
Clean Energy Projects
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Financing Clean Energy Projects
• Debate regarding access to clean energy technologies should not be on IPRs
• Real issues: creating incentives for and removing obstacles to clean energy development and dissemination
• Need to reallocate fossil fuel subsidies• May need to reform WTO subsidies law • Need to remove barriers to trade in clean energy
technologies & services, investment
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Cost Comparison of Electricity at Distance from Grid
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Conclusion
• Where to get the money?– Fossil fuel subsidies– Permit auctions, carbon taxes– Both raise money and reduce emissions
• How to spend the money?– Clean energy subsidies– Adaptation for the poor