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This Chapter employs the fairness criteria put forward with the justice framework to evaluate the current international regime for funding adaptation under the UNFCCC. It adopts three different perspectives to assess procedural justice in international adaptation funding in light of the emergence and meaning of the fairness criteria. First, it uses the qualitative content analysis approach to evaluate the relevant documents of the UNFCCC architecture. These documents belong to seven categories grouped into two families: that of Principal Documents and that of Non-Principal Documents. The Chapter then evaluates the emergence of fairness criteria within the governance structures, procedures and practices of the institutions of the climate change regime governing adaptation funding. The third perspective involves observation of significant selected formal negotiations and is centred on meetings on the Adaptation Fund – the most controversial, yet promising, financial instrument – and points out the effective level of procedural fairness involved.
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Other working documents of the SBI related to the AF are employed in support to the analysis of SBI 24 and 25 meetings on the AF.
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This document could not be adopted at COP 1 owing to disagreement on the voting procedures of rule 42. However, the Draft Rules were all applied in the subsequent COP meetings, with the exception of rule 42, which was replaced with a pragmatic voting procedure based on consensus.
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Grasso, M. (2010). Evaluation of Procedural Justice in International Adaptation Funding. In: Justice in Funding Adaptation under the International Climate Change Regime. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3439-7_6
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