By Leticia Labre on
12/8/2009 12:24 PM
Media Briefing Advisory: COP 15 Climate Solution Business Coalition
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By Leticia Labre on
12/1/2009 4:57 PM
Are you traveling to Copenhagen to attend COP15? Mark your schedule:
- Date: December 15 @ 20:00-21:30
- Location: Bella Center, Room 7.
- Topic: "Show me the Money" - Beyond the Rhetoric of Financing Sources: What the private sector needs from Copenhagen to enable finance to flow to low-carbon technologies. What does the private sector need? How do we secure and maximize investment flows? A panel of experts will discuss how to build investor confidence in carbon markets to ensure that "capital expected" becomes "capital delivered" .
- Questions: contact Alexandra Galin, alexandra.galin@cmia.net
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By Leticia Labre on
11/6/2009 11:10 AM
Press release and associated statement from the Climate Solutions Businesses, comprised of the Carbon Markets & Investors Association (CMIA), the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE), the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the International Council for Sustainable Energy (ICSE) - calling for an international climate agreement to support a global carbon market and more investment.
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By Leticia Labre on
10/29/2009 9:29 AM
CMIA's response to the Conclusions of the European Union 2968th Environment Council Meeting. In particular, CMIA comments the EU's commitment to market continuity, CDM reform, and REDD+.
The text is below for your convenience. Please feel free to be in touch with any questions.
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By Leticia Labre on
10/26/2009 7:48 AM
Please find attached CMIA's latest press release on the critical importance of preserving natural forests to ensure the success of a REDD+ mechanism.
CMIA is committed to design principles that promote the highest possible market integrity and consider the environmental impacts of a mechanism in the broadest possible scope, thereby avoiding perverse incentives or negative externalities. Of key importance to this, are provisions in the Copenhagen text that would safeguard standing natural forests.
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By Leticia Labre on
10/13/2009 12:13 PM
There is much rhetoric from international policymakers about the importance of engagement with the private sector. Engagement with the investor community is most critical in discussions of design features of new mechanisms. The reputation of the UNFCCC and those nations that have placed political capital into the international process rests on the success of these mechanisms, and success is measured not only by the ambition levels, but the volume of capital mobilized, both public and private. If 40 per cent is to be provided by the private sector, policy makers must listen much more closely to an analysis of market feasibility of each of the current proposals on the table. Among these, and here described, are positions and clarifications around CDM reform, CDM evolution, and REDD mechanisms.&
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By Leticia Labre on
10/6/2009 7:13 AM
CMIA's statement to the UNFCCC Ad-Hoc Working Group on Long-Term Cooperative Action (AWG-LCA) on behalf of global business and industry.
A landmark intervention, considering mentions of "realistic and ambitious targets" and the inclusion of the REDD mechanism.
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By Leticia Labre on
9/24/2009 4:11 PM
In the run-up to Copenhagen, CMIA has released FOUR policy papers to ensure that negotiations are informed by coherent, targeted, and transparent messages from the private sector.
The success of a global agreement - both in the eyes of developed and developing nations - depends on negotiations creating frameworks that provide both environmental integrity and mobilize large-scale private sector financing.
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