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Here is where you can find the latest reports and research related to AccountAbility's growing climate porfolio and briefing series.
Radical Simplicity in Designing National Climate Institutions (December 2009)
 | This summary briefing was prepared by Simon Zadek, Maya Forstater, Fernanda Polacow and João Boffino of AccountAbility, working closely through an accompanied learning process with Tasso Rezende de Azevedo, designer of the Amazon Fund. It also draws on a series of interviews with key stakeholders and expert commentaries. |
Credible national institutions are needed to enable transformation towards low carbon growth. Without sound national level institutions to effectively manage climate change finance, funds will be wasted or will not be applied as effectively and quickly as needed. The bottom line is that, irrespective of commitments made globally, if national institutions to do not work well, quickly and at scale, the deal will fail to deliver on ambitious plans and needs for low carbon growth and development.
Download Radical Simplicity in Designing National Climate Institutions: Lessons from the Amazon Fund.
This report is second of AccountAbility's Climate Policy Briefing Series.
The Business of Adaptation (November 2009)
 | Climate change is a business issue and businesses are responding with the things they do best: driving out inefficiency, innovating new technologies, products and services and pioneering new markets. But the truth is they are only concentrating on half the problem. |
Few businesses have begun to consider the challenge of adaptation - what it will take to grow their business in a world which faces a temperature rise of 2ºC, 3ºC, 4ºC, 5ºC degrees or more, and where the people are facing the worst of these impacts are already poorly served by markets.
Download The Business of Adaptation, Briefing Paper.
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