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Reform of the international financial architecture and climate finance: What will the year 2024 bring?

29. February 2024 |

A new target for climate financing is to be agreed internationally before the end of the year. If it is to meet the challenges of climate change, it must be significantly higher than the previous USD 100 billion target for... more
ArticleUNFCCC negotiations / International climate finance / Pledges & Commitments

COP28: What progress can be made on climate finance?

29. November 2023 |

When the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 opens its doors in Dubai tomorrow, climate finance could be one of the keys to success. What specific issues are on the agenda and what results are possible? An overview. Like COP27 in... more
ArticleInternational climate finance / Loss and Damage / UNFCCC negotiations

Operationalize and capitalize the Loss & Damage fund – key tasks for COP28

29. November 2023 |

On the home stretch to COP28, a compromise has been reached on the structure of the new fund for dealing with loss and damage. However, COP28 still has to formally adopt it. Will Germany and other countries bring their first... more
ArticleInternational climate finance / Adaptation / Transparency

New adaptation index shows: access to climate finance lacks equity

28. November 2023 |

Adressing an aspect not previously covered, Brot für die Welthas assessed the access to adaption finance under the viewpoint of climate justice.  Its new adaptation index looks at 129 countries to determine whether their share of international climate adaptation finance... more
ArticleInternational climate finance / Pledges & Commitments / Transparency

Seeing Double 2023: The Failed Promises of Wealthy Nations in Climate Finance

25. November 2023 |

At COP15 in Copenhagen, developed nations pledged to support climate action in developing nations with ‘new and additional’ finance. The support should grow to USD 100 billion annually by 2020. The 100 billion goal has not been met yet, but... more
ArticleInternational climate finance / Adaptation / Pledges & Commitments

Hollow Commitments 2023: Wealthy countries are not on track to live up to their climate finance obligations

3. November 2023 |

In the run-up to COP26 and COP27 Germany and Canada have produced updates on how wealthy countries delivered on their climate finance commitments. The reports have so far not contributed to a lot of clarity on which counties are expected... more
ArticleGerman climate finance / Federal budget / Pledges & Commitments

German climate finance 2023 and 2024: downward projections

Figure 1: Government forecast for climate finance in 2023 and 2024

1. November 2023 |

For 2023 and 2024, the federal government’s forecast indicates declining funds for climate finance. Despite this, the federal government is confident that it will meet its six-billion pledge. That does not seem to add up. By 2025 at the latest,... more

PublicationInternational climate finance / Transparency

Seeing Double: Decoding the ‘Additionality’ of Climate Finance

29. October 2023 |

Climate finance should be “new and additional” and not compete with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Yet, a recent analysis by CARE shows that 93% of all climate finance reported by industrialized countries from 2011 to 2019 is coming from... more

PublicationInternational climate finance / Transparency

Hollow Commitments 2023: An Analysis of Developed Countries’ Climate Finance Plans

29. October 2023 |

CARE conducted an analysis of climate finance plans that 26 industrialized countries submitted to the UNFCCC climate secretariat. The analysis highlights the existing gaps in funding, particularly on the goal to increase adaptation finance to 50% of total climate finance.... more
Article / Federal budget / German climate finance / Pledges & Commitments

German climate finance 2022: Pledge fulfilled early – but will it last?

Fig. 5: German climate finance 2022 by instrument

23. October 2023 |

These days the German government submitted its 2022 climate financing figures to Brussels, as required under an EU regulation. According to the figures, Germany has fulfilled its €6 billion pledge three years earlier than promised. Worth a quick analysis. A... more
Article / International climate finance / Multilateral funds and initiatives / UNFCCC negotiations

Green Climate Fund: pledges do not meet expectations

Green Climate Fund

9. October 2023 |

After the replenishment conference for the Green Climate Fund, the most important multilateral climate fund has secured around $9.3 billion in new pledges for the 2024-2027 funding period. It should have been twice as much; several countries, including the US,... more
ArticlePrivate climate finance

The Summit for a New Global Financial Pact: Outcomes and challenges

31. July 2023 |

The Summit for a New Global Financial Pact organized by President Macron organisierte on on June 22nd and 23rd, 2023 discussed questions around a just international financial architecture. This articles gives an overview of the most importatn results and an... more

Publication / International climate finance / Pledges & Commitments / UNFCCC negotiations

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2023: Assessing the delivery of the $100 billion commitment

Oxfam Climate Finance Shadow Report

13. July 2023 |

Oxfam’s Climate Finance Shadow Report analyses the state of international climate finance regarding the fulfilment of the industrialised countries’ promise to increase financial support for climate mitigation and adaptation in poorer countries to 100 billion US dollars annually by 2020.... more
ArticleGerman climate finance / Implementation of climate finance / Multilateral funds and initiatives

Direct access to German climate finance: expanding pioneering work

14. June 2023 |

The concept of direct access to international climate finance has become increasingly important in recent years. At world climate conferences, an increasing number of countries of the Global South are calling for improved and simplified direct access to climate finance.... more
ArticleUNFCCC negotiations / Adaptation / Loss and Damage / Pledges & Commitments

Climate finance at the SB58: What is at stake at the 2023 UN climate talks in Bonn?

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5. June 2023 |

Over the next two weeks, the SB58 climate talks will be held in Bonn, advancing the international climate regime and preparing the next UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai at the end of the year. Again, climate finance will be... more
Article / Multilateral funds and initiatives

Towards an ambitious second replenishment of the Green Climate Fund: keeping the momentum built by Germany

23. May 2023 |

The Petersberg Climate Dialogue traditionally sets the scene and lays the groundwork for the year-end UN climate negotiations by helping create the political momentum necessary to elevate climate change action as a high priority on the political agenda. In its... more
ArticleLoss and Damage / International climate finance

First Transitional Committee Meeting for new Loss and Damage Funding Arrangements and new Fund Showcases Major Fault Lines 

26. April 2023 |

hbsDC and others _submission to inform the work of the Transitional Committee_for TC2_FINAL Climate change is causing widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damages, with grave effects on gender and social equity, as the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on... more
ArticleInternational climate finance / Gender / German climate finance

Further need for improvement in Germany’s reporting on future climate finance

25. April 2023 |

The first submissions on future projections of climate finance as required under Article 9.5 of the Paris Agreement were submitted in 2020. Germany reported as a member of the European Union, which provided its submission on November 24, 2020. Following... more

PublicationInternational climate finance

Just Transition Finance

6. April 2023 |

The CFAS publication contributes to the debate of integrating finance flows for just transition approaches into the global climate finance architecture. In this context, the publication emphasizes the needs for just transition finance of commodity-dependent developing countries. Previously debates on... more
ArticleInternational climate finance / Private climate finance

Mixed results on climate finance at COP 27

COP27 logo

22. February 2023 |

Negotiations on climate finance at the COP 27 climate talks in Sharm-el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2022 did not produce any outstanding progress. Still, there were positive developments in the financing of climate-related loss and damage – a detailed analysis can... more
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