I'd like to understand the funding patterns of major institutions in
climate change.  The question is:

How much are major institutions (e.g., governments, NGOs and foundations,
industry, universities) investing in climate change, and where
is the money going (e.g., operational changes, R&D, policy, education, etc.)?

I'm curious about funding both by category of institution (as listed
above), if available, as well as by the major individual institutions
within each category.  A big plus would be a sense of trends; in other
words, how these funding flows have changed over time.

Thanks!

* I already have figures on the US government and Canada, and on
universities, for MIT and Stanford.  I'm also less interested about
spending by NGOs and foundations, since I have figures for those that
have published annual reports with financials.

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Request for Question Clarification by pafalafa-ga on 27 Jan 2004 19:38 PST

The world leaders, meeting at the environmental summit in Rio in (I
think) 1990, created a financing facility for climate change that has
funneled many billions of dollars in climate change project around the
world.  It is undoubtedly the biggest single source of financing for
climate change funding.

Are you already familiar with this?  It sounds like you have access to
a great deal of information already, and it's hard for a researcher to
know what additional information to provide without knowing a bit more
details about what you have in hand at present.

If your not yet familiar with the institutional outgrowth of the Rio
meeting, I'd suggest that would be a good focus for an answer to your
question.  As I said, I beleive it to be the world's largest source of
climate change project financing.

Let me know your thoughts on this.

pafalafa-ga

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Clarification of Question by pl804-ga on 28 Jan 2004 12:31 PST

Hi pafalafa, it sounds like you're referring to the Global
Environmental Facility (GEF).  The World Bank website has some
information on the GEF ($12.5 billion in projects since its
inception), but most of this funding seems to be in research.  This is
definitely one example of the type of funding flows I'm looking for,
but I'm hoping to get a bigger picture view.  For instance, who are
the top 5 corporate investors in climate change in energy and
transporation, respectively, and how much are they spending? Or, who
are the top 5 governments investing in climate change, and how much
are they spending? And where is the money going? Same thing for
universities, mainly in the US and Europe.