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Climate Change Expert Group www.oecd.org/env/cc/ccxg.htm
Randy Caruso, OECD
randy.caruso@oecd.org
Based on the discussion paper “Exploring Climate Finance Effectiveness” by Jane Ellis, Randy Caruso, Stephanie Ockenden
Exploring Climate Finance Effectiveness
CCXG Global Forum 18 September 2013
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Focusing on results
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Presentation outline
Walk through three observations related to the following questions on results frameworks:
1. What types of indicators are being used?
2. What is the scope of these indicators?
3. What are the core issues in implementing results frameworks?
Questions for discussion
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1. What types of indicators are being used?
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1. What types of indicators are being used?
While all institutions place a focus on results, chosen indicators are not always linked to impacts – often focusing instead on outputs or outcomes.
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Results frameworks Time since intervention
Scale
Project
Portfolio / Programme
National
Global
Output Outcome Impact Input
$100 m to fund feed-in
tariff
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Results frameworks Time since intervention
Scale
Project
Portfolio / Programme
National
Global
Output Outcome Impact Input
$100 m to fund feed-in
tariff
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Results frameworks Time since intervention
Scale
Project
Portfolio / Programme
National
Global
Output Outcome Impact
1 000 wind turbines installed
Input
$100 m to fund feed-in
tariff
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Results frameworks Time since intervention
Scale
Project
Portfolio / Programme
National
Global
Output Outcome Impact
1 000 wind turbines installed
new fossil-fuel fired
generation avoided
Input
$100 m to fund feed-in
tariff
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Results frameworks Time since intervention
Scale
Project
Portfolio / Programme
National
Global
Output Outcome Impact
1 000 wind turbines installed
new fossil-fuel fired
generation avoided
x tonnes of CO2eq/yr avoided
Input
$100 m to fund feed-in
tariff
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2. What is the scope of these indicators?
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2. What is the scope of these indicators?
Results frameworks are often multi-dimensional, with indicators extending beyond climate-specific areas into broader development areas
Breadth of results frameworks
Mitigation
• Policies introduced
• GHG emissions abated/avoided
• EE savings • tCO2
sequestered • RE installed
(ratio)
Adaptation
• Policies • Energy
efficiency • Renewable
energy • GHG
emissions • tCO2
sequestered
Mitigation-specific indicators
• Policies • Vulnerability
of population • Vulnerability
of assets • Outreach or
CB activities • Vulnerability
assessments
Resilience-specific indicators Broader development indicators
• Finance mobilised
• Access to energy
• Access to transportation
• Livelihoods • Land use and
forests
• Biodiversity • Local env.
quality • Water • Food security • Health • Sanitation • Tech transfer
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3. What are the core issues in implementing results frameworks?
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3. What are the core issues in implementing results frameworks?
Methodological issues complicate
efforts to track results and assess effectiveness;
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3. What are the core issues in implementing results frameworks?
Methodological issues complicate
efforts to track results and assess effectiveness; un-coordinated and differentiated responses compound these
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Core issues
Setting baselines and choosing targets e.g. baseline choice has been shown to influence GHG foot-
printing tools by a factor of 3 for renewable energy and 10 for energy efficiency projects (Clapp et. al., 2009).
Assessing transformational change e.g. how to determine causality or account for exogenous factors?
Context-specificity of results e.g. how to balance tradeoffs between comparability/aggregation
and context-specificity?
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Core issues - cont
Cost effectiveness and value for money e.g. is cost effectiveness a reliable metric across objectives and
contexts?; whose “values” apply?
Tracking underlying financial flows e.g. how to ensure the flow back of results for complex financing
instruments, e.g. investment fund-of-funds?
Learning and knowledge management e.g., how to characterise and share experience within and across
institutions?
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Discussion questions
What information is needed to assess the effectiveness of mitigation activities?
How to balance tracking GHG benefits; broader economic, environmental and social co-benefits; and cost-effectiveness concerns?