As in previous years, climate finance was one of the most controversial issues at this year’s climate conference COP22 in Marrakech – one that has been hotly debated since the Copenhagen conference in 2009, when the industrialized countries pledged to... more
Judged against low expectations for the 21st UN climate change conference COP21, the acceptance of the Paris Agreement is a historical moment. The agreement, that enters into force after 2020, firmly establishes the 2°C temperature limit under international law; sets... more
Last Saturday was the international Day of Action to stop subsidies for fossil fuels. Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) used the occasion, on the eve of the G20 Summit in Turkey, to release their study of... more
The Heinrich Böll Foundation recently published an e-paper by Roger Moody for which the author used information available on From Money to Metal, a website that he has been furnishing with data about investment in mining for years. For the... more
Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) is considered to be climate protection and has been discussed as a formal instrument since the UN Climate Conference in Bali in 2007. Governments, banks, experts and NGOs who see it as... more
Between 2003 and 2013, the 34 member countries of the OECD provided export credits for coal-fired power plants to the tune of $12.8 billion. One third of that amount came from EU countries: France ($1.8 billion) and Germany ($1.1 billion)... more
While the international climate negotiations in Lima are far off from agreeing on a clear road map how to reach the $100 billion per year promised from 2020 on, there have been some small pleasant surprises especially during the meeting... more
At a time when the rich nations’ governments — including the federal government of Germany — seem neither able nor willing to dedicate public funds to emissions mitigation and climate adaptation in pursuit of the US$100 billion target, companies are... more
Despite its crucial role as an implementing organization for German climate finance, the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) is not yet joining the halt to funding for international coal projects, through which some countries are trying to coordinate their energy policy... more
G20 Leaders are meeting June 18 to 19, in Los Cabos, Mexico, presumably to discuss ways to deal with the current economic and financial challenges, such as the Eurozone crisis. What the heads of state and government of the most... more
