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It identifies five common rationales for their inclusion: cooperation, promotion, recognition, guidelines, and support. While VSSs can complement public regulations and drive innovative trade policy—such as using sustainability criteria for preferential tariffs—the report warns of pitfalls, including vague terminology, lack of enforcement, and the risk of VSSs becoming de facto market barriers for small-scale producers in developing countries. 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It focuses on four main areas: building the capacity of the Ministry of Planning and Development (the new NDA) and the Ministry of Finance; supporting the pre-accreditation of the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) to access the GCF Private Sector Facility; establishing essential coordination mechanisms including a No-Objection procedure and an operational manual; and developing a GCF Country Programming Document and two high-quality project concept notes based on pre-feasibility studies. 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The project also aims to support the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MFED) in achieving GCF FMCA re-accreditation and to enhance national coordination through the Kiribati National Experts Group (KNEG).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004826#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Kiribati is highly vulnerable to climate change, with sea-level rise projected to be between 16–33 cm by 2050 under a very high emissions scenario, which will increase the impact of coastal flooding and storm surges.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004826#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Despite its vulnerability, Kiribati has limited experience with the Green Climate Fund, having accessed only USD 28 million for a single full-size project and one Readiness project.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004826#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The National Designated Authority (NDA) faces severe human capacity constraints; the Climate Finance Division (CFD) had no staffing from December 2022 until July 2023, when a Director was appointed via Australian Government support.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004826#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a critical lack of institutional systems for climate finance, specifically the absence of defined 'No Objection' procedures, which prevents project proponents from moving ideas into the country pipeline.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004826#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"National coordination is hampered by deficiencies in the Kiribati National Experts Group (KNEG), including a lack of awareness of its functions and the tendency for projects to bypass the KNEG by going directly to the Office of Te Beretitenti or Cabinet.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004826#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MFED) requires technical assistance to update its fiduciary and project management policies to meet the GCF's Financial Management Capacity Assessment (FMCA) re-accreditation standards.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004826#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The existing Strategic Framework and Country Programme (SFCP) is outdated, as its timeframe only extends to the end of 2024 and its project pipeline no longer reflects current priorities.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004826#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Gender inequality in Kiribati limits women's participation in decision-making and economic opportunities, with women facing higher unemployment rates (43.5%) than men (33%).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"gclifun-004826#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["climate finance","capacity building","sea level rise","climate change mitigation","greenhouse gas emissions"],"geography_discussed":["South Tarawa","Gilbert Islands","Line Islands","Phoenix Islands","South Korea"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy proposal","institutional assessment","capacity gap analysis"]},{"id":"costratri-000063","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/costratri-000063","title":"Workshop Readout: Clean Energy is National Security","publisher":{"name":"The Council on Strategic Risks","organization":"the-council-on-strategic-risks"},"document_type":"after-action report","language":"en","date_published":"2024-03-05","source_url":"https://councilonstrategicrisks.org/2024/03/05/workshop-readout-clean-energy-is-national-security/","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The workshop highlighted that Japan's continued reliance on fossil fuel imports creates acute security vulnerabilities and trade-offs, particularly when intersecting with climate hazards and geopolitical tensions. Participants identified that public opinion can be a driver for the renewable energy transition if technology is perceived as viable, and suggested that Japan should pursue an energy resilience alliance with like-minded countries such as South Korea and Taiwan. The report emphasizes the need for deeper inter-governmental dialogue across Japanese ministries to integrate climate security into national defense planning and to mitigate supply chain risks associated with renewable technology, specifically reliance on China.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000063#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Japan faces increasingly difficult security trade-offs due to its dependence on fossil fuels, potentially struggling to simultaneously maintain fuel access in the Middle East, deter Chinese aggression near Taiwan, address vulnerabilities related to Russia, and respond to domestic climate disasters.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000063#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The workshop revealed that Japan's reliance on specific partners for energy can create critical chokepoints; for example, a scenario involving the loss of Australian coal imports due to political change and climate hazards was described as an \"eye-opening possibility\".","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000063#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Public opinion in Japan is not a fixed variable and could drive the renewable energy transition if the government highlights security benefits and ensures that technologies are perceived as safe, affordable, and feasible.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000063#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Climate-driven disasters may reduce the availability of international humanitarian aid as donor countries face their own climate risks, and there is a risk that authoritarian nations could lead disaster response to worsen regional security.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000063#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is potential for an energy resilience alliance between countries with low self-sufficiency and high import reliance, such as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan, to coordinate transitions and develop contingency plans for global energy crises.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000063#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"To mitigate security risks, Japan needs increased inter-agency collaboration between the Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, the Self Defense Forces, and the Ministry of Environment.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000063#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"While the transition to renewable energy introduces new supply chain risks, particularly a reliance on Chinese technology exports, participants agreed that maintaining the current fossil fuel-dependent energy system is a more undesirable alternative.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000063#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A disconnect exists between the planning horizons of the defense sector and the energy sector; energy officials and industry often view 2050 as a near horizon, whereas defense officials typically do not plan that far ahead.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"costratri-000063#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["energy transition","energy security","energy independence","supply chain","national security"],"geography_discussed":["United States","Middle East","China","Taiwan","Russia","Australia","South Korea","Philippines","United Kingdom"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["scenario-based exercise","workshop readout"]},{"id":"ciel-001035","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/ciel-001035","title":"Obstructionist Tactics in Decision-Making: Key Elements for Consideration in the Context of a Treaty to End Plastic Pollution","publisher":{"name":"Center for International Environmental Law","organization":"center-for-international-environmental-law"},"document_type":"briefing","language":"en","date_published":"2024-03","source_url":"https://www.ciel.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Obstructionist-Tactics-in-Decision-Making.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document examines how the insistence on consensus-based decision-making in the INC process for a plastic pollution treaty acts as a tool for obstruction, allowing a minority of least ambitious countries to block substantive progress. It contrasts this with other multilateral environmental agreements that include voting provisions to incentivize compromise and avoid deadlock. The brief also details specific procedural tactics used to stall negotiations, such as repeated quorum calls and credential verifications, and warns that without the ability to vote, the final treaty will likely reflect only the lowest common denominator of ambition.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ciel-001035#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"A small number of countries are blocking the final adoption of the INC Rules of Procedure by insisting that voting on substantive matters be deleted, which favors those reluctant to take action to end plastic pollution.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ciel-001035#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The requirement for consensus often functions as a de facto veto for any party, leading to a 'Law of the Least Ambitious Program' where agreements are watered down to the lowest level of ambition all countries can accept.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ciel-001035#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is cited as an example where the lack of majority voting, blocked by Saudi Arabia during the first COP, has contributed to the failure to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ciel-001035#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Other multilateral environmental agreements, such as the BBNJ and the Minamata Convention, include voting provisions in their Rules of Procedure, which the document argues leads to compromise without the need to actually resort to voting.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ciel-001035#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Parties may employ various procedural maneuvering tactics to delay decisions, including calling for working groups, requesting secret ballots, and making repeated appeals of the Chair's determinations.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"ciel-001035#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["plastic pollution","international law","United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change"],"geography_discussed":["Canada","South Korea","Saudi Arabia"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","procedural critique"]},{"id":"iisd-003268","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/iisd-003268","title":"Monitoring Progress in Green Public Procurement","publisher":{"name":"International Institute for Sustainable Development","organization":"international-institute-for-sustainable-development"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2024-03","source_url":"https://www.iisd.org/system/files/2024-03/monitoring-green-public-procurement.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report examines how governments can monitor green public procurement (GPP) to track progress toward climate goals. 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While institutionalization and outputs track implementation, outcomes measure real environmental benefits such as GHG emission reductions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Measuring the actual outcomes of GPP is rare in practice; most countries with monitoring systems focus on outputs, such as the number of tenders with green criteria, rather than quantified environmental impacts.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Methods for monitoring CO2 impacts are divided into product-level information (e.g., Environmental Product Declarations), organization-level methods (e.g., CO2 Performance Ladder), and assessment tools and models (e.g., Life-cycle assessment).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The CO2 Performance Ladder (CO2PL) is a Dutch-developed tool that rewards suppliers with an award advantage in tenders based on their carbon management certification level, which ranges from 1 to 5.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Major challenges in GPP monitoring include the absence of clear objectives, the decentralized nature of government procurement, a lack of transparent and high-quality data, and a shortage of specialized knowledge in complex tools like Life-cycle assessment (LCA).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"South Korea is considered a global benchmark for GPP monitoring due to its mandatory annual reporting for government agencies and the integration of monitoring into the Korean Online E-Procurement System (KONEPS).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Japan estimates GPP environmental benefits for 19 product categories by comparing current green purchases against a 2000 market share baseline of eco-friendly products.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Slovenia's Care4Climate project analysis (2018-2020) found that GPP compliance resulted in a reduction of 101,506 tonnes of CO2, representing 0.5% of the country's total CO2 footprint.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Denmark utilizes an expense-based method matching invoice data with the EXIOBASE multi-regional input-output model to calculate the carbon footprint of public procurement, which was 16 million tonnes of CO2e in 2021.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-9","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Malaysia tracks GPP through the Malaysian Green Technology and Climate Change Corporation (MGTC), focusing on 40 specified product and service groups, with reported CO2e reductions of 1,031.3 tonnes in 2018.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"iisd-003268#insight-10","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["sustainable procurement","greenhouse gas emissions","carbon dioxide emissions","life cycle assessment","climate finance"],"geography_discussed":["South Korea","Japan","Slovenia","Denmark","Malaysia","Netherlands","European Union"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["case study","policy review","methodological assessment"]},{"id":"reclfin-000764","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/reclfin-000764","title":"STEELING OUR FUTURE","publisher":{"name":"Reclaim Finance","organization":"reclaim-finance"},"document_type":"report","language":"en","date_published":"2024-03","source_url":"https://reclaimfinance.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Steeling-_our_future_March_2024.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report 'Steeling Our Future' by Reclaim Finance analyzes the financing of the 100 largest steel producers, finding that banks provided US$429 billion to these companies between 2016 and June 2023. 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It advocates for a shift toward hydrogen-based direct reduction of iron (HDRI) and electric arc furnaces (EAF) powered by sustainable electricity.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Between 2016 and June 2023, 354 banks provided US$429 billion to the 100 largest steel producers, with the top 50 banks contributing US$326 billion of that total.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The steel industry's reliance on coal, specifically the blast furnace to basic oxygen furnace (BF-BOF) route, is the primary driver of its climate impact, accounting for nearly 90% of the sector's emissions.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Bank commitments to steel decarbonization are largely inadequate; among the top 50 banks analyzed, only 17 have adopted decarbonization targets and only one (ING) has a specific steel policy, which the report describes as too weak to be effective.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"There is a significant risk of stranded assets in the steel industry, estimated at up to US$554 billion, if planned new coal-based capacity is built, as these assets are incompatible with 1.5°C warming goals.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"A large portion of planned new steel capacity continues to rely on carbon-intensive methods, with at least 57% of planned new capacity using the coal-based BF-BOF route.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Relining existing blast furnaces to extend their operational life locks in carbon emissions; over 70% of existing blast furnaces will require reinvestment by 2030, presenting a critical window for transitioning to fossil-free methods.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) is viewed as an insufficient solution for steel because it does not eliminate the use of coal and has a history of failure, with no full-scale CCUS facilities for blast furnaces currently in operation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Hydrogen-based Direct Reduction of Iron (HDRI) paired with Electric Arc Furnaces (EAF) and sustainable electricity is identified as the most promising path to deep decarbonization, potentially reducing process emissions by 91%.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#insight-8","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Major steel producers like ArcelorMittal and Nippon Steel are criticized for pursuing 'two-speed' strategies, investing in clean tech in Europe and Canada while expanding coal-based blast furnaces in India.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000764#insight-9","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["green hydrogen","climate finance","stranded asset","methane emissions"],"geography_discussed":["People's Republic of China","India","Japan","United States","European Union","South Korea","Sweden","Luxembourg","Kazakhstan"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["financial analysis","policy analysis","industry analysis"]},{"id":"sei-001975","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/sei-001975","title":"The future in Asia and the Pacific","publisher":{"name":"Stockholm Environment Institute","organization":"stockholm-environment-institute"},"document_type":"briefing","language":"en","date_published":"2024-03","source_url":"https://www.sei.org/wp-content/uploads/pdfs/163615/the-future-in-asia-and-the-pacific.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document outlines discussions from a foresight workshop involving 42 academics and practitioners from 15 countries in Asia and the Pacific. 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Other options like the AP1000 have poor economic records, and the South Korean APR1400 has safety and quality control issues.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sgr-000081#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Siting for eight new projects is problematic. While eight sites were identified in 2010, some face environmental objections (Wylfa) or concerns regarding sea-level rises. To meet the target, the government would likely need to ignore planning advice or find new sites.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sgr-000081#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The Regulated Asset Base (RAB) financial model shifts the risk of cost overruns from the plant owner to the consumers, who pay a surcharge on their bills from the Final Investment Decision (FID) to completion.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"sgr-000081#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Hinkley Point C demonstrates the extreme cost and time overruns typical of the industry. 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