Under the Paris Agreement, Germany made an international commitment to support climate protection and adaptation measures in developing and emerging countries. Transparency is an essential prerequisite for the independent monitoring of international climate finance. While the German government has continued... more
From 2011 to 2017, Germany supported climate change mitigation and adaptation with about a quarter of all development funds, pledging to provide four billion euros per year in climate aid from its budget by 2020. Adaptation to climate change in... more
Women all over the world suffer from the impacts of climate change. They are often more severely affected by climate change impacts as they aggravate existing gender inequalities. In 2018, world hunger rose to 821 million people, particularly affecting agrarian... more
Climate finance is always considered a deal maker or deal breaker at the international climate change conferences of the UNFCCC. This is particularly true this year with COP24 in Katowice that has just started. Civil society organizations are therefore demanding... more
Only a few months after the belated adoption of Germany’s 2018 federal budget, consultations for 2019 are on the home stretch. Draft legislation for the 2019 federal budget was published on August 10, 2018, and was first discussed in the... more
The consequences of climate change are already visible and are felt most severely in developing countries. Adaptation to climate change can help to deal with these impacts in the affected countries, but they need financial support from donor countries and... more
On 14 November 2017, the InsuResilence Global Partnership (IGP) was launched at a high level event during the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) in Bonn. The partnership is an expansion of the InsuResilience initiative which was founded in 2015 under... more
In 2015, Germany committed a total of around €2.7 billion for climate protection and adaptation to climate change in developing countries. About €2.31 billion of this comes from bilateral development cooperation and €371 million from multilateral funds and development banks.... more
Climate change is causing increasing social and economic damage that will require significant additional adaptation measures on the part of countries in the global South in particular, hampering the realization of development goals. Climate risk management and climate change adaptation... more
We recently updated our database: information on financing commitments up to and including 2014 are now available (the German government publishes lists of bilateral commitments with some delay, and figures for 2015 have not yet been released). Germany’s commitments for... more
