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Klimafinanzierung Der deutsche Beitrag zur internationalen Klimafinanzierung

Topic: Implementation of climate finance

PublicationInternational development finance / Mitigation

Food, Fossil Fuels and Filthy Finance

5. November 2014 |

The Oxfam Briefing Paper analyses the ‘toxic triangle’ of political inertia, financial short-termism and vested fossil fuel interests that blocks the transition that is needed.... more
ArticleInternational development finance / Mitigation

Development banks financing unburnable carbon

22. September 2014 |

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
ArticleGerman climate finance / Mitigation

Barbara Hendricks: KfW funding for coal-fired power plants to be curbed

22. September 2014 |

In the run-up to the UN climate summit in New York, German Environment Minister Barbara Hendricks announced strict curbs on the financing of coal-fired power plants by Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW). The details are still to be worked out, however... more
ArticleGerman climate finance / Mitigation

A coal-free KfW: when will the bank drop the climate killers?

9. September 2014 |

New coal-fired power plants? According to the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), they are no longer feasible. The panel’s latest report states in no uncertain terms that limiting climate change to a reasonably manageable level will require a... more

PublicationInternational development finance / Mitigation

Overcoming energy poverty – No development funding for coal power

11. August 2014 |

The Factsheet of Brot für die Welt and Misereor critically discusses the funding of coal-fired power plants in developing countries and demands that climate finance should instead be used to extend access to energy and finance poverty reduction through renewable... more
ArticleGender / Implementation of climate finance / Transparency

Participation, gender, human rights? An analysis of qualitative aspects of Germany’s climate finance

21. July 2014 |

To what degree does Germany’s climate finance take into account civil-society involvement, human rights, gender and a focus on the most vulnerable groups? An analysis published on the German climate finance website examines this question. German climate finance should not... more
ArticleGerman climate finance / Mitigation

Netherlands follows United States and other countries in halting overseas coal funding—KfW carries on undeterred

15. April 2014 |

Despite its crucial role as an implementing organization for German climate finance, the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) is not yet joining the halt to funding for international coal projects, through which some countries are trying to coordinate their energy policy... more
ArticleFederal budget / Mitigation

Climate Policy backwards: German Government insures export of climate killers

15. July 2013 |

Parallel to providing financial support to developing countries in the fight against climate change, the German government subsidizes the export of climate killers – in essence, that was the federal government’s reply to a written inquiry by the Green MP... more

PublicationImplementation of climate finance

A Matter of Principle(s)

30. November 2011 |

A Normative Framework for a Global Compact on Public Climate Finance By Liane Schalatek This publication proposes the use of existing core principles and tools of international environmental law and human rights as the fundamental conceptual guide and compass for... more
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