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Episode 15 of ‘The Evaluator’ is our second episode to focus on the topic of climate bonds, also referred to as green bonds or sustainable bonds.

This podcast is based on the IEU Virtual Talk: The Future of Climate Bonds, held in May, 2021.

It features Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative. He is joined by Dr. Jyotsna Puri (Jo), former IEU Head and currently the Associate Vice-President of the Strategy and Knowledge Department at the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

They discuss how climate bonds can help mobilize private capital for the extensive investments needed to combat the effects of climate change and build resilient societies.

The first episode in the two-part series is available here.

This episode was created by the IEU's Yeonji Kim and Iben Holstener Hjorth. You can subscribe to 'The Evaluator' on major podcast platforms including Anchor, Radio Public, Breaker, Spotify, and Google.

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This episode of The Evaluator features Sean Kidney, CEO of Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), an NGO working to mobilize the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions.

In this episode, Sean takes us through a tour de force on the hows and whys of climate bonds, bonds which are linked to climate-friendly investments.

This is the first of two episodes on the topic of climate bonds.

This episode was created by the IEU's Iben Holstener Hjorth and Yeonji Kim. You can subscribe to 'The Evaluator' on major podcast platforms including Anchor, Radio Public, Breaker, Spotify, and Google.

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This podcast is based on the IEU Virtual Talk: The Future of Climate Bonds, held in May, 2021.

This episode of the Evaluator features two renowned REDD+ experts: Ms. Maria Garcia Espinosa, Senior Policy Advisor at Climate Law and Policy; and Mr. Pierre Guedez, Senior Climate Finance Specialist at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Together with IEU’s Yeonji Kim as the moderator, they discuss a wide range of topics related to REDD+, including the GCF’s REDD+ results-based payment pilot, the Cancun Safeguards, and the future of the REDD+ mechanism as a whole.

Maria and Pierre also discuss the ESS evaluation report, and specifically the chapter on the GCF’s REDD+ programme. You can read the full report here.

The IEU recently finalized the Rapid Assessment of the GCF’s Request for Proposals (RfP) modality. REDD+ pilot is one of the 4 programmes that were launched under the RfP modality. If you want to learn more about it, you can read the full report here.

This episode was created by the IEU's Yeonji Kim and Beatrice Muroni. You can subscribe to 'The Evaluator' on major podcast platforms including Anchor, Radio Public, Breaker, Spotify, and Google.

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This episode of The Evaluator features Dr. Jeannette Gurung, Founder & Executive Director of Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (WOCAN).

Listen to her speak about why gender and climate change should be addressed in unison and learn about the methodology WOCAN has proposed for putting a monetary value on the women’s unpaid care for the environment.

This episode was created by the IEU's Iben Holstener Hjorth and Yeonji Kim. You can subscribe to 'The Evaluator' on major podcast platforms including Anchor, Radio Public, Breaker, Spotify, and Google.

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This podcast is based on the IEU Virtual Talk: Gender in Climate Change: Perspectives from WOCAN and GCF, held in March, 2021.

How does the GCF go about financing adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries? What does its adaptation portfolio look like? Where do opportunities exist for the GCF to make its adaptation investments more relevant and effective?

This episode features three IEU members who contributed significantly to the IEU’s recently concluded “Independent Evaluation of the Adaptation Portfolio and Approach of the Green Climate Fund”: Dr. Martin Prowse, Evaluation Specialist; Mr. Peter Mwandri, Evaluation Researcher; and Mr. Andreas Reumann, Head ad interim of the IEU.

Martin, Peter and Andreas discuss some of the main topics covered in the evaluation, including, but not limited to, the role of the GCF in adaptation finance, the challenges in catalyzing funds from the private sector, and the impacts of GCF’s investments in adaptation.

This evaluation was approved by the GCF Board as part of the IEU’s 2020 Work Plan. The final evaluation report was prepared and submitted to the Board in time for its 28th Meeting, which was held virtually from 16 to 19 March 2021. The full evaluation report is available here.

This episode was produced by IEU’s Yeonji Kim and Beatrice Muroni. You can subscribe to 'The Evaluator' on major podcast platforms including Anchor, Radio Public, Breaker, Spotify, and Google.

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This podcast is based on the B.28 Virtual Side Event: Findings and recommendations from the Adaptation evaluation, held in March, 2020.

Does crop insurance improve farmers’ livelihoods in the face of climate change? If so, what does it take to convince them to buy it?

In this podcast, Dr. Nathanial Peterson, Vice President of Partnerships at the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics, explains how Busara helped an agricultural insuretech improve the sale of crop insurance through a mixed-incentive referral system. Dr. Peterson discusses how Busara leveraged social and economic mechanisms to drive particular segments of farmers to refer others, ultimately resulting in thousands becoming insured against climate shocks in Malawi, Zambia and Nigeria.

The Busara Center for Behavioral Economics is a behavioural science advisory and academic research lab that works to advance and apply behavioural science in the Global South.

Dr. Peterson is interested in how smallholder farmers understand risk, risk mitigation strategies and technologies. He specializes in building partnerships with agritech startups, funders and implementing NGOs. He has degrees in Agriculture and Natural Resource Economics, Psychology and a PhD in Behaviour Decision Research and Behavioural Economics.

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This podcast is based on the IEU Virtual Talk: Using behavioural science to mitigate climate shocks - a case study, held in September, 2020. The views expressed by guests are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Independent Evaluation Unit of the Green Climate Fund.

This episode of The Evaluator features Dr. Ania Grobicki, Deputy Director of External Affairs at the GCF. She was one of the Coordinating Lead Authors of the Freshwater chapter of the UN Environment’s 6th Global Environment Outlook report, sub-titled “Healthy Planet, Healthy People”.  In this podcast, she discusses the global water cycle and, especially, the state and trends of freshwater worldwide, as reflected in this UNEP report.

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This episode of The Evaluator features Doug Watkins of the East Asian Australasian Flyway Partnership, a network of partners working to protect migratory waterbirds, their habitat and the livelihoods of people dependent upon them.

Listen to hear about how the work being done to protect more than 50 million birds from 250 different species on their way through 22 different countries.

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This episode of The Evaluator features Dr Bernhard Seliger of the Hanns Seidel Foundation, a German NGO with an office in South Korea. One of their focus areas is encouraging international collaboration with North Korea, or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on environmental issues such as sustainable forestry.

In this podcast, Dr Bernhard Seliger shares his insights on creating change in one of the most closed countries in the world.

This episode of 'The Evaluator' features Professor Hyun Shin, Associate Professor of Marketing at Hanyang University and editor of the Korea edition of the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

In the podcast, Professor Hyun Shin tells the story of the G-Saver, a heat accumulator that can reduce coal consumption by up to 45%. The G-Saver has been implemented in Mongolia since 2010. Listen to the episode to hear about Professor Hyun Shin’s experience of implementing a randomized controlled trial to measure the impact of the G-Saver.

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