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$100 billion goal remains unmet: Impacts of recent pledges on climate finance by 2025

20. September 2021 |

As the long-standing promise by rich countries to ramp up climate finance to assist poorer nations to $100 billion a year from 2020 remains unfulfilled, Oxfam estimates that recent pledges by developed countries will not suffice to reach the goal,... more

G7 Summit: Germany pledges to increase climate finance

15. June 2021 |

Surprise at the last minute: just before the emd of the G7 summit, Germany commits to increase the budget allocations for climate finance from currently around four billion euros to six billion euros annually by 2025 at the latest. A... more

Pledges & Commitments / 100 billion / German climate finance

Climate finance at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue: Litmus test for Germany’s continued solidarity with the Global South

3. May 2021 |

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomes ministers from around 40 countries for the 2021 edition of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue later this week, the audience will listen carefully if she makes a commitment to significantly increase urgently needed financial assistance... more

German climate finance / 100 billion / Federal budget

German climate finance 2021: Stagnating levels at best, possible decrease

8. February 2021 |

The prospects for German climate finance for 2021 are modest at best. Instead of a significant increase, the German government plans to merely keep past levels. Current restrictions on the budget lines for bilateral development co-operation could even cause a... more

100 billion / Federal budget / German climate finance

Poor outlook for USD 100 billion target – new financial commitments from Germany needed

18. November 2020 |

Current analyses highlight several urgent works-in-progress in international climate finance. The industrialized countries are likely to fall short of their USD 100 billion target for climate finance. And while Germany is on track to meet its doubling commitment, it has... more

International climate finance / 100 billion

EU climate finance falls short

24. September 2020 |

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

100 billion / Adaptation / International climate finance

OECD climate finance figures: essential, clear upward trend not discernible

18. June 2020 |

In November 2017, the OECD published its latest survey on the implementation of the USD 100 billion pledge, “Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries in 2013-17”. According to the report, the figures achieved in 2016 and 2017 for... more

100 billion / International climate finance / Petersberg Climate Dialogue

Coronavirus pandemic: Why climate finance must feature high on the agenda of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue

Rohingya refugee Ayesha collecting water for her family in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh. Photo: Maruf Hasan/Oxfam

22. April 2020 |

Next week’s Petersberg Climate Dialogue (27-28 April 2020) should recognise the links between the Coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis. Climate finance and going beyond rich countries’ $100-billion-a-year goal must be a key ingredient to the debate. The Coronavirus pandemic... more

100 billion / Federal budget / German climate finance / UNFCCC

German climate finance: state of play and 2020 challenges

19. February 2020 |

In the past, Germany has been among the more ambitious providers of financial assistance to developing countries’ efforts to adapt to a changing climate and cut or avoid greenhouse gas emissions. Germany was the first country to pledge to the... more

General / 100 billion / Federal budget / German climate finance

Germany’s 2020 federal budget: Merkel’s climate finance pledge wobbles

18. September 2019 |

Germany’s draft federal budget for the coming year currently lacks at least 500 million euros needed to fulfill the Chancellor’s pledge to double climate finance by 2020. A further shortfall is being minimized by creative accounting. Will the current budget... more