Effective Laws for Climate-Compatible Development: Overview
Climate change is a major geo-political challenge. As noted in the 1992 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, its 1997 Kyoto Protocol, 2010 Cancun Agreements and its 2011 Durban Platform of Enhanced Action (DPEA), impacts of climate change threaten to undermine decades of development progress, a matter of climate justice. Climate-compatible development is needed. 100 Billion per year by 2020 has been committed. Developing countries are struggling to access and absorb climate finance for mitigation and adaptation, and to realize the benefits of the low-carbon economy. IDLO offers a suite of legal services to address these challenges. IDLO also leads legal and governance issues in international climate change negotiations, with a strong roster of climate law experts, high quality legal technical assistance and publications, strategic networks and partnerships, and local presence in field offices such as in Kenya and Vietnam.

Legal Preparedness for Climate Change: IDLO’s Approach
IDLO’s Climate Finance programming employs unique Legal Preparedness for Climate Change methodologies to systematically identify legal and governance barriers; provide legal and regulatory training and technical assistance for implementation; and implement consensus-based solutions tailored uniquely for each recipient country.

Climate Finance & Carbon Markets: IDLO’s 2012 Focus
Legal Preparedness for REDD+ Financing: Assessing and updating regulatory frameworks to assist in preparing, implementing and resolving conflicts related to REDD+ in developing countries, including those involving agricultural communities and indigenous peoples.
Legal Empowerment for Carbon Markets Participation: Engaging legal empowerment and technical assistance to attract and absorb climate finance through Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Action (NAMAs), the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and other instruments; providing regulatory support for development of renewable energy (e.g. Feed-in Tariffs, in partnership with International Renewable Energy Agency, IRENA); and facilitating access to other new financial instruments.

Moving Forward Together: Key Partnerships