This chapter reviews the grant allocations by the Green Climate Fund to two East African nations: Kenya and Ethiopia. Of the total number of GCF-funded projects around the globe, Kenya received the largest number of project grants with 11 approved projects. Summed across the projects, the goal...

This chapter reviews and analyzes the Indian and Sri Lankan projects funded by the Green Climate Fund, emphasizing the Sri Lankan water projects. The GCF's Sri Lanka projects focuses on water resources and security in two regions: The Northeastern village irrigation with village tanks project...

The Green Climate Fund (GCF), a primary financial mechanism of the Paris Agreement, began its resource mobilizations and funding allocations in late 2015. As of December 2020, it provided funds to 159 projects proposed by the developing country party of the United Nations Framework Convention on...

This chapter provides an analysis of the Paris Agreement on climate change with a focus on individual countries' participations. We rely on the data from Southeast Asian nations, especially Thailand. We examine two countries in Southeast Asia: Thailand and Vietnam. For our analysis, we choose a...

The EU27 plus UK has long relied on carbon markets as key instruments for achieving a reduction in global GHGs emissions. The agricultural sector is, however, not covered by the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS). Internationally, there are very few examples of policies pricing agricultural...

The GCF funding allocations to Latin America and the Caribbean, especially Brazil and Argentina, reveal several salient features. The countries' Paris Agreement commitments through the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDC) were made conditional on the international aids and...

Due to substantial uncertainties in the presently available climate change projections, a Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) of hydropower projects must aim at assessing the potential hydro-meteorological impacts of a wide range of possible future climate conditions on inter alia water resources...

Due to substantial uncertainties in the presently available climate change projections, a Climate Risk Assessment (CRA) of hydropower projects must aim at assessing the potential hydro-meteorological impacts of a wide range of possible future climate conditions on inter alia water resources...

Climate change and climate variability affect weather patterns and cause shifts in seasons resulting to negative effects such as declining food production and productivity for communities and households in Kenya. Since most rural households in Kenya depend on agriculture as their main source of...