Fwd: Communications Update: New CIF Blogs, Videos, Photos and News Articles on the CIF from global media outlets

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De: CIF Admin Unit <cifadm...@worldbank.org>
Data: 5 de janeiro de 2015 08:59:31 PM BRST
Para: CIF Admin Unit <cifadm...@worldbank.org>
Assunto: Communications Update: New CIF Blogs, Videos, Photos and News Articles on the CIF from global media outlets

Dear CIF Partners,

We would like to share with you recent updates to the CIF Voices blog, YouTube videos, and news articles on CIF projects.

You can stay up to date with the CIF’s latest developments by following us on Twitter @CIF_Action

CIF Voices (Blogs)

CIF pledges hit $8.3 billion; to continue operating alongside GCF
CIF AU, Dec 8
The first two weeks of December have shifted all our attention to Lima, Peru where the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties is taking place. UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueras has said that she hopes the broad coalition of actors in climate change will be focused on “turning potential into reality on the ground without delay." As countries look for action to make 2014, the Year of Climate Ambition, yield tangible results, there could not be better news than to receive a fresh injection of contributions to the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) amounting to approximately $765 million.

Climate change journalism training shows results
CIF AU, Dec 2
Mauricio Ortega Santos is one of the reporters that completed a regional journalism training on climate change co-hosted by the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) in Jamaica this past June.  A broadcast journalist, he planned to translate what he learned from the training to help his national radio audiences in Honduras better appreciate and manage the challenges of climate change. “The training is a special motivation to deal more deeply with climate change issues that deserve more attention in our countries,” said Santos, a reporter for Honduras’ Radio America.

CIF News from MDB partners

Peru to improve rural land registration and titling with an IDB loan
IDB, Dec 4
Peru will improve its rural land registration and titling to encourage land-related investment and agriculture productivity with financing from a $40 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Agriculture is the main source of livelihood for the rural poor. In Peru, 60 percent of the poor people live in rural areas, most of them are farmers who rely on small plots of land and their own labor to produce food for their own consumption and income.

EBRD finances its first wind farm in Kazakhstan
EBRD, Dec 4
In a landmark project for Kazakhstan’s renewables industry, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is supporting the first large-scale wind farm in the country to be financed under the new feed-in-tariff mechanism. The EBRD and the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) will finance the construction, connection to the power transmission grid, commissioning and launch of a greenfield 50 MW wind power plant located in Yereymentau in central Kazakhstan. The EBRD will provide a KZT 14 billion (€59.2 million) loan to Wind Power Yereymentau, a special purpose vehicle incorporated in Kazakhstan, while up to €18 million of concessional financing will be provided by the CTF. The loan will be guaranteed by JSC Samruk-Energo, Kazakhstan’s national energy company and the ultimate owner of the company.

CIF News from other Global Networks

Sky Solar Announces Project Financing Packages
Sky Solar, Dec 22
The Board of Directors of the IDB approved a financing package for the Arica 1 plant that consists of (i) a loan to Sky Solar's subsidiary, Arica Solar Generación 1, Ltda., of US$27.7 million from the ordinary capital of the IDB (the "IDB Loan"), (ii) a loan of up to half the amount of the IDB Loan, or US$13.9 million, from the China Fund for Latin America and the Caribbean (the "China Fund"), and (iii) a loan of US$8.5 million from the Clean Technology Fund (the "CTF"). The final commercial terms for the loans have not yet been decided

SunEdison Secures $146 Million Funding For Solar Power Project In Honduras
CleanTecnica, Dec 20
A part of the debt financing will come from the Clean Technology Fund, a funding window of the Climate Investment Funds. The Clean Technology Fund has provided debt financing to several large-scale solar power projects in 15 countries and the MENA region. The Fund has so far approved $3.9 billion in financing to 70 renewable energy projects with a total capacity of 16.6 GW.

Nepali company seeks to develop hydroelectric generation facilities greater than 25 MW
HydroWorld, Dec 19
On Dec. 17, Hydroelectricity Development & Investment Co. Ltd. (HIDCL) announced it is seeking to lead development of hydroelectric projects in Nepal that have a generating capacity greater than 25 MW. HIDCL is based in Babarmahal, Kathmandu, Nepal. Scaling-Up Renewable Energy Program (SREP) formally registered HIDCL in July 2011, as one of several Nepali organizations approved to receive its investment funds for use to develop hydroelectric generation facilities. According to SREP, state-owned HIDCL has an authorized capital of US$790 million, and existing capital of US$63.2 million. HIDCL said it is authorized to invest US$158 million in hydropower projects above 25 MW.

Jamaica Receiving Funding to Improve Climate Change Resilience
Caribjournal, Dec 14
Jamaica is receiving new funding from the Inter-American Development Bank to improve the country’s resilience to climate change. The funding includes a $10 million “highly” concessionary loan and a $7,895,000 grant approved by the Inter-American Development Bank. The project is the first adaptation programme implemented by the IDB under its “Pilot Programme for Climate Resilience of the Climate Investment Funds.”

CIF YouTube

Saweto, Living Memory (Spanish)
Dec 18
In recognition of the crucial role of indigenous communities in protecting and conserving Amazonian rainforests in Peru, the World Bank via a $5.5 million program funded by the FIP's Dedicated Grant Mechanism for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities, is working in partnership with communities of the Peruvian Amazon to strengthen indigenous capacity and governance in land titling and forest management, along with a focus on gender equality. The program has identified 20 million hectares of land that need titling and community-based services that support sustainable forest management. A National Steering Committee composed of members from large national Amazon indigenous organizations AIDESEP and CONAP has been established to develop the project with the World Bank, and the World Wildlife Fund-Peru has been selected as executive agency.

Please look out for further updates soon.

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Sincerely,

Steven Shalita
Senior Communications Officer
Administrative Unit
Climate Investment Funds