On November 17, 2015, the industrialized countries of the OECD agreed on massive restrictions on export credits for new coal power plants. The deal came about through pressure from the United States government after hard negotiations with coal-friendly countries such... more
Mitigating emissions and fighting poverty need not be mutually exclusive goals. Climate finance must be a driving force for the urgently needed move toward a carbon-neutral world while creating a framework that enables new and innovative approaches. In doing so,... more
Climate finance is a growing field of development finance in which Germany has taken on international obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For several years, the www.germanclimatefinance.de website has been following the German government’s reporting... more
Just a few days before the third UN Conference on Financing for Development (FfD-3) from July 13-16, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Heinrich-Böll-Foundation published an in-depth analysis of what is at stake at the conference. While climate finance is not an... more
The second Forum of Sustainable Energy for All (SE4All) – a United Nations initiative launched by Ban Ki-Moon in late 2011 – is taking place in New York from the 19th to the 22nd of May, 2015. Its theme: “Financing... more
What contributions do German-financed climate change mitigation projects make toward long-term decarbonization and poverty reduction in developing countries? An analysis by www.deutscheklimafinanzierung.de addressed this question in the context of global climate change and the challenges of the fight against poverty... more
The international climate negotiations in Lima kick off today – a good opportunity to take a look at the projects financed by German development cooperation in Peru in the fields of climate protection and adaptation to climate change.... more
The pledging conference of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), which took place in Berlin on November 20th 2014, came up with $9.3 billion for the period of 2015-2018. With this result the unofficial mark of $10 billion was missed. Nevertheless... more
Despite some initiatives to phase out the financing of coal projects, financial resources dedicated to fossil fuels worldwide are still several times higher than those earmarked for climate finance. This stands in direct contradiction to the ambitious climate policy that... more
In the run-up to the climate summit to be convened in New York this week by Ban Ki-moon, the Bretton Woods Project published a report on the financing of unburnable carbon by major multilateral development banks (MDBs) showing that billions... more
