While the future role of the Adaptation Fund was only vaguely defined in the Paris Agreement, the 2016 climate summit in Marrakech set a clear course: the Adaptation Fund is intended to serve the Agreement. This direction was clearly confirmed... more
The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has made significant progress in terms of supporting low-carbon and climate resilient development in developing countries. Yet the Fund still has to work on some of the gaps and challenges that have manifested throughout the... more
At the UN Climate Change Conference in Marrakech in 2001 (COP7), the international community agreed to establish a climate adaptation fund, which was then launched in 2007. The Adaptation Fund celebrated its tenth anniversary at the 2017 Climate Change Conference... more
At the end of the 15th meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which was held from the 13th to the 15th December 2016 in Samoa, there was a big round of applause from the attending board members. Firstly to... more
Financial support for poorer countries from those who are largely to blame for climate change is a key prerequisite for international cooperation in climate policy. While this issue is not explicitly part of the official G20 agenda, current processes within... more
From 28 to 30 June, 2016, The Board of the Green Climate Fund spent three solid days in Songdo, South Korea, discussing the future direction of the Fund. Containing no less than 26 items, the agenda was quite long. Not... more
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are a centerpiece of the new global climate regime that was agreed at COP21 in Paris, and form the foundation for the pathway toward low-carbon and climate-resilient development. By March 2016, 188 countries had submitted their... more
Long nights are nothing unusual for Board meetings of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) anymore. In the recent past, meetings of the largest multilateral climate fund were all too often marked by political battles that went on into the wee... more
The 26th meeting of the Adaptation Fund (AF) Board, which was held in Bonn from the 6th to the 9th of October 2015, was a memorable gathering. The AF, which finances concrete adaptation programs and projects in developing countries, had... more
The 10th Board meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) was its last gathering prior to the potentially historic 11th meeting in November 2015, in which the first GCF projects and programs are due to be approved shortly before the... more
The successful initial capitalization of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) at the donor conference in Berlin in November 2014 and the subsequent climate summit in Lima in December represents a major milestone in the fund’s brief history to date. With... more
Shortly before the end of the climate conference in Lima, Germany was applauded enthusiastically for its pledge of €50 million to the Adaptation Fund (AF) – an even higher amount than Germany’s commitment last year. This earned the fund’s largest... more
The climate summit in the Peruvian capital Lima from the 1st to the 12th of December 2014 is intended to pave the way for a new global climate agreement at the end of next year in Paris. This 20th Conference... more
The 8th Meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board, which was held in Bridgetown, Barbados from October 14 to 17, was originally expected to benefit from the positive momentum of the successful previous meeting, at which the Board members... more
The 24th meeting of the Adaptation Fund (AF) board concluded in Bonn, Germany, on Friday, October 10th 2014. The fund’s 32 Board Members once again convened to decide on topics such as the funding of new, concrete adaptation projects and... more
The pressure on the 24 members of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board could hardly have been greater after the last meeting in February: After old tensions between industrialized and developing countries once again came to the fore, the Board... more
