Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (the Alliance)
General
Name of initiative | Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance (CCFLA) |
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LPAA initiative | Yes |
NAZCA Initiative | Yes |
Website address | http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/07/CITIES-Cities-Climate-Finance-Leadership-Alliance.pdf |
Related initiatives | |
Starting year | 2014 |
End year | The date "No website presence available yet" was not understood.The date "No website presence available yet" was not understood. |
Secretariat | UN |
Organisational structure | UN-led initiative of 16 organisations |
Geographical coverage | Global |
Name of lead organisation | |
Type of lead organisation | International organisation |
Location/Nationality of lead organisation | "The United States of America" is not in the list of possible values (Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Dem. Republic Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Ivory Coast, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Korea (North), Korea (South), Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, FYR Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent & Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome & Principe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia & Montenegro, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Togo, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe, EU) for this property. |
Description
Description | The members of this Alliance share a common goal of accelerating investment in low-carbon and climate-resilient urban infrastructure to address these dual challenges. Against this backdrop, the mission of the Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance is to catalyze and accelerate additional capital flows to cities, maximize investment in low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure, and close the investment gap in urban areas over the next fifteen years. |
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Objectives | The undersigned members of this Cities Climate Finance Leadership Alliance collectively commit to work together to remove obstacles and close the resource gap on investment into low-carbon and climate-resilient urban infrastructure. In particular, the Members of the Alliance commit to expand their efforts aimed at facilitating and leveraging similar investments through sharing of knowledge, lessons learned from past activities, and best practices. Because of the varied nature of the members of this Alliance, this commitment will – and must – take a variety of forms. |
Activities | Connect&Engage: Solicit participation in the Alliance; Facilitate exchanges of knowledge, experience, and best practices between members that would not otherwise happen;
Advocacy&Policy: Identify and advocate for innovative solutions that will dramatically transform the financing landscape for low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure in urban areas; Explore opportunities through policy and regulatory reform to incentivize efforts to plan, design, and invest in secure, cost-effective and profitable projects; Support increased investments in capacity building and in the strengthening of existing regional and national entities a.o.; Engage with leading actors in finance, including the private sector as well as national and international public financial institutions, with the intention of stimulating the scale-up of financial products. Research&Knowledge Management: Identify effective solutions and effective intermediary organizations to facilitate an improved alignment of efforts by different types of investors and third party institutions; Conduct research to assess the landscape, understand the challenges cities and financial institutions are facing in mobilizing investments in low carbon climate resilient infrastructure; Disseminate information widely by developing an Internet-based, multi-stakeholder knowledge-sharing platform. |
One or two success stories achieved |
Monitoring and Impacts
Function of initiative | Technical dialogue, Political dialogue, Capacity building |
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Activity of initiative | Knowledge dissemination and exchange, Awareness raising and outreach, Training and education |
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Participants
Participants | Number | Names | ||||||
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Members | 0 | |||||||
Companies | 0 | |||||||
Business organisations | 0 | |||||||
Research and educational organisations | 0 | |||||||
Non-governmental organisations | 0 | |||||||
National states | 0 | |||||||
Governmental actors | 0 | |||||||
Regional / state / county actors | 0 | |||||||
City / municipal actors | 0 | |||||||
Intergovernmental organisations | 0 | |||||||
Financial Institutions | 0 | |||||||
Faith based organisations | 0 | |||||||
Other members | 0 | |||||||
Supporting partners | 0 | |||||||
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Have only national states as participators |
Theme
Transport | Agriculture | Forestry | Business | Financial institutions | Buildings | Industry | Waste | Cities and subnational governments | Short Term Pollutants | International maritime transport | Energy Supply | Fluorinated gases | Energy efficiency | Renewable energy | Supply chain emission reductions | Adaptation | Other | Resilience | Innovation | Energy Access and Efficiency | Private Finance |
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No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No |
Not only have national states as participators