What is Results Based Climate Finance

Results Based Climate Finance is an evolving approach to sustainable development that aims to incentivize climate action, create and expand carbon markets, and stimulate innovation. Through this approach, investors or others (including donors) pay an entity to achieve, report on, and independently verify a set of pre-agreed performance targets related to climate mitigation. Basically, reducing greenhouse gas emissions in a sustainable manner.

The Emission Reduction programs use selected methodologies for carbon accounting, to measure the reductions generated by their programs, which become the results that lead to climate finance flowing. 

The value of these programs depends on the robustness of the methodology used, and the stronger the methodology the more robust the results.  Of course all programs, which implement the activities that generate the results need to be tailored to the local context, and be designed to maximize social impact and social inclusion. 

Results Based Climate Finance programs improve accountability and funding effectiveness, because payments are only disbursed after results have been verified. As such, investors can be more certain that their contributions are creating a real impact on the earth.

What are Results Based Payments

 

Key Elements of Results-based Payments

Climate Finance and Carbon Finance
What’s the Difference Between Climate Finance and Carbon Finance?
The Paris Agreement, an international agreement within the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), accounts for both climate and carbon finance.
Financing Modalities Under the ISFL
Financing Modalities Under the ISFL
The ISFL provides program countries with both climate finance and carbon finance. Under a climate finance modality, also called ER Use Modality 1 by the fund, the ISFL makes payments for verified ERs but does not retain ownership of these ERs.
The Link Between ISFL Grants and Results-based Payments
The Link Between ISFL Grants and Results-based Payments
The BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL) is a multilateral fund, supported by donor governments and managed by the World Bank, that works to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the land sector.
How Are Emission Reductions Monitored and Verified
How Are Emission Reductions Monitored and Verified?
Robust monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) is a critical component of the results-based payments approach, as it ensures that Emission Reduction programs achieve the desired results and enables the distribution of benefits to program stakeholders.
How Is Climate/Carbon Finance Disbursed
How Is Climate/Carbon Finance Disbursed?
An Emission Reductions Purchase Agreement (ERPA) is a legally binding contract between two entities, namely the buyer and seller of ER units, that specifies the terms and conditions for the sale of ERs.
How Can Emission Reduction Programs Be Designed Inclusively
How Can Emission Reduction Programs Be Designed Inclusively?
Results-based payments for ERs are oftentimes conditioned upon the development of a comprehensive Benefit Sharing Plan (BSP) which outlines how monetary and non-monetary benefits will be distributed to program stakeholders.
How Can Emission Reduction Programs Mitigate Risk
How Can Emission Reduction Programs Mitigate Risk?
In order to account for risks related to uncertainty and reversals, certain ER units, called “buffer ERs,” can be set aside in an ER transaction registry and deducted from the total volume of verified ERs generated by a program entity.

How ISFL Programs Generate Emission Reductions Credits

How ISFL Programs Generate Emission Reductions Credits