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PUBLICATIONS : Climate Finance: Benefits for Small Scale Renewables in Developing Countries : Climate finance webinar for the Alliance for Rural Electricification

Adriaan Korthuis

This webinar for Ruralec brings you up to date on what climate finance can do for renewable energy in developing countries.

Carbon credits can make a real difference when investing in renewable energy generation in developing countries. The envisaged reduction of CO₂ emissions from replacing fossil fuel, charcoal or wood fuel cut in an uncontrolled way, provides the investor with hard currency revenue upon selling the carbon credits.  This webinar for Ruralec brings you up to date on what climate finance can do for renewable energy in developing countries. Subjects discussed in the webinar include:

– Background: Regulatory framework: Climate Convention, Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism, Executive Board;

– What does carbon finance do for an investment: increased revenue, securities, guarantees;

– How to create carbon credits: preparation of documents, validation, monitoring, verification;

– Organising your carbon credits: timing, management;

– Where to sell: carbon credit markets: EU Emissions Trading System, voluntary markets;

– Add-ons: Gold Standard;

– Bundling small projects, Programmes of Activities: structure, management, legal aspects, implementation issues;

– Future of climate finance: new mechanisms: from Copenhagen to Cancun to Durban and beyond

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Release Date	December 2, 2011
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