For the second year in a row, the Climate Adaptation Finance Index (CAFI) reveals alarming results with regard to the equitable distribution of international climate adaptation finance. The index shows how risk-appropriate and therefore climate-just international adaptation finance is distributed... more
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
Under the Paris Agreement, the industrialized countries pledged to provide USD 100 billion a year from 2020 onwards to help the poorest countries weather the climate crisis. A new study on behalf of ACT Alliance EU shows that the European... more
The study “Falling short: seven ways in which the EU should improve its climate support to developing countries” is based on research by INKA Consult, which provided its findings pro bono. INKA Consult’s survey covered figures on climate finance by... more
The poorest populations in the Global South are fighting against the yet unforeseeable consequences of the coronavirus and the impacts of climate change simultaneously. They urgently need support in building resilience to the health crises and in dealing with unavoidable... more
Climate change has increasingly led to more climate induced loss and damage (L&D) over the last years. According to data provided by the Munich Re NatCatService, the cumulated economic losses as a result of extreme weather events between 1998 and... more
In autumn 2015, the international community established seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the national level, action plans are now being developed to reach those goals by 2030. Yet climate change is an obstacle on the way forward, especially for... more
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is convening a climate summit in New York on the 23rd of September. New commitments to the Green Climate Fund (GCF), like those already made by Germany, are being anticipated in the area of climate finance.... more
