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Climate finance in the 2022 federal budget: Is Germany shirking its commitments?

10. May 2022 |

Things are not looking good for climate finance in the 2022 German federal budget. Instead of gradually increasing funding to achieve annual budgetary allocations of around six billion euros for climate finance by 2025 as promised, Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s... more

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

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German climate finance for bioenergy: a threat to forests and climate goals?

5. November 2018 |

Supporting bioenergy is part of climate finance, but is a controversial field in renewable energy policies. The website www.germanclimatefinance.de publishes a guest post by Almuth Ernsting from Biofuelwatch which summarizes the results of a desk study on German climate finance... more

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CARE as new partner of the German Climate Finance website

25. May 2018 |

Many millions of people worldwide are already experiencing the impact of climate change, and this has made itself increasingly felt in CARE’s work. Our partners and the people we support feel its effects personally, whether through direct damage caused by... more

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Climate Finance Fundamentals – Brief 10: Gender and Climate Finance

9. December 2015 |

This update of the 10th brief of 12 short introductory briefings that look at various aspects of climate change financing, outlines key principles and actions that should make climate financing instruments more gender-responsive and that ensure that gender perspectives are... more

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Climate finance: for transformative change (?)

3. February 2015 |

Five years from the next big ‘deadline on climate’, world leaders are still negotiating over deadlines. They are nowhere near agreeing on, much less mobilizing, even a basic roadmap for ensuring the fulfillment of commitments made by northern countries to... more

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Ready to be Africa’s Climate Bank?

30. November 2011 |

A Mapping of Climate-related Policies, Programs and Practice at the African Development Bank By Lindlyn Tamufor, Joshua Klemm and Liane Schalatek This mapping is a review of AfDB’s engagement, commitments and, when possible, implementation of work surrounding climate change and... more

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German climate financing – an introduction to the website

26. November 2011 |

Two years ago, more than a hundred heads of state from around the world failed in their attempt to agree on a fair, binding and ambitious global climate treaty to stop global warming. Nevertheless, a promise was made in Copenhagen... more

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Climate Finance Short-Changed, 2024 Update: Estimating the real value of the $100 billion commitment for 2021-22In 2009, rich countries promised to ramnp up climate finance to $100bn a year by 2020 to support climate action in lower-income countries low- and middle-income countries. According to the OECD, climate finance in 2022 stood at nearly $116 billion, reaching an surpassing the level originally promised for 2020. In this new analysis, Oxfam estimates the impact of generous accounting pracitices that lead to significant over-estimation of provided support. By that estimate, the actual, support effort by developed countries specifically targeting climate action may have amlounted to a mere $28-35 billion, much lower than what officially reported figures seem to suggest. This Methodoloy Note explains how the estimate was calculated.
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10 things to know about climate finance (2024)The publication by Heinrich-Böll-Foundation provides an overview of the most important developments and facts on international climate finance in 2024.
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