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10 things to know about climate finance (2024)

22. May 2024 |

The publication by Heinrich-Böll-Foundation provides an overview of the most important developments and facts on international climate finance in 2024. This includes the New Collective Quantitative Goal (NCQG), trends in financing commitments, the increase of adaptation finance, the multilateral climate... more
Green Climate Fund (GCF) / International climate finance / UNFCCC

Green Climate Fund: pledges do not meet expectations

Green Climate Fund

9. October 2023 |

After the replenishment conference for the Green Climate Fund, the most important multilateral climate fund has secured around $9.3 billion in new pledges for the 2024-2027 funding period. It should have been twice as much; several countries, including the US,... more
German climate finance / Adaptation Fund / Green Climate Fund (GCF) / Implementation of climate finance

Direct access to German climate finance: expanding pioneering work

14. June 2023 |

The concept of direct access to international climate finance has become increasingly important in recent years. At world climate conferences, an increasing number of countries of the Global South are calling for improved and simplified direct access to climate finance.... more
Green Climate Fund (GCF)

Towards an ambitious second replenishment of the Green Climate Fund: keeping the momentum built by Germany

23. May 2023 |

The Petersberg Climate Dialogue traditionally sets the scene and lays the groundwork for the year-end UN climate negotiations by helping create the political momentum necessary to elevate climate change action as a high priority on the political agenda. In its... more
Adaptation / Green Climate Fund (GCF) / Implementation of climate finance

Well-intentioned instead of well-done: The risk of maladaptation in private-sector climate finance

13. May 2022 |

Adaptation to climate change is necessary to ensure that impacts do not overwhelm societies and ecosystems around the world. But adaptation planning is an exercise in uncertainty, and because it is based on imperfect information, adaptation strategies can also fail.... more
Implementation of climate finance / Green Climate Fund (GCF)

In tree plantations in Paraguay, public money is driving private profit: What is Germany’s role? 

9. December 2021 |

Forestry and land-use are a hot topic in the current climate debate, and play an important role in German climate finance. This article looks at tree plantations that have received support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) that Germany is... more
Implementation of climate finance / Green Climate Fund (GCF) / Land-use

Activists fear that funds linked to major restoration initiative in Africa will result in nearly doubling the area occupied by conflict-causing tree plantations

20. September 2021 |

The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) wants 100 billion dollars to help finance the restoration of degraded landscapes across the continent, in an effort to restore forests and suck carbon out of the atmosphere. Today, on International Day of... more

PublicationGreen Climate Fund (GCF)

Climate Finance Fundamentals – Brief 11: The Green Climate Fund (2019)

8. January 2020 |

This is the 2019 update of the 10th brief from the series of 12 introductory briefings that look at various aspects of climate change financing, outlines the principles and criteria the should serve as a normative guidance for a coherent... more
Green Climate Fund (GCF)

Pledges in Paris were a start, but not yet enough to signal real GCF replenishment ambition

GCF pledging conference

29. October 2019 |

With USD 9.77 billion pledged by 27 countries at the Green Climate Fund’s formal pledging conference in Paris last week, the first GCF replenishment period (GCF-1) is off to a decent and some would even say better than hoped for... more
International climate finance / Green Climate Fund (GCF)

Did the UN Climate Action Summit benefit those hit by the climate crisis?

21. October 2019 |

On 23 September, numerous heads of state and government gathered for the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. The UN Secretary-General had invited them to present new and more ambitious plans to curb the climate crisis. The summit was... more
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