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Rich countries’ efforts: less than a third of reported $116bn in climate finance

Figure 1: Reported climate finance versus Climate-Specific Net Assistance, 2021-2022

12. July 2024 |

Just in time for the recent Bonn climate talks, the OECD reported that climate finance to support developing countries had reached nearly $116 billion in 2022. Yet, as a new estimate shows, the actual effort by developed countries in providing... more

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COP28: What progress can be made on climate finance?

29. November 2023 |

When the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 opens its doors in Dubai tomorrow, climate finance could be one of the keys to success. What specific issues are on the agenda and what results are possible? An overview. Like COP27 in... more

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Operationalize and capitalize the Loss & Damage fund – key tasks for COP28

29. November 2023 |

On the home stretch to COP28, a compromise has been reached on the structure of the new fund for dealing with loss and damage. However, COP28 still has to formally adopt it. Will Germany and other countries bring their first... more

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Green Climate Fund: pledges do not meet expectations

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

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Climate Finance Shadow Report 2023: Assessing the delivery of the $100 billion commitment

13. July 2023 |

Oxfam’s Climate Finance Shadow Report analyses the state of international climate finance regarding the fulfilment of the industrialised countries’ promise to increase financial support for climate mitigation and adaptation in poorer countries to 100 billion US dollars annually by 2020.... more

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Climate finance at the SB58: What is at stake at the 2023 UN climate talks in Bonn?

5. June 2023 |

Over the next two weeks, the SB58 climate talks will be held in Bonn, advancing the international climate regime and preparing the next UN climate summit COP28 in Dubai at the end of the year. Again, climate finance will be... more

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Climate finance at COP27: Progress needed

31. October 2022 |

The upcoming UN Climate Change Conference COP27 takes place in a time of multiple global crises. Success is uncertain but urgently needed, including on climate finance. What can we expect? The COP27 faces particular challenges – not least the war... more

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Climate Finance Short-changed: The real value of the $100 billion commitment in 2019-2020

27. October 2022 |

In 2009, high-income countries promised to provide $100bn a year in climate finance to low- and middle-income countries by 2020. They have failed to keep this promise. Their official reports claim that the climate finance they provided and mobilized reached... more

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OECD confirms: Rich countries broke the $100-billion promise

10. August 2022 |

As expected, developed countries did not keep their promise from 2009 to ramp up climate-related financial assistance to $100 billion a year by 2020. The OECD now reports that in 2020, a level of around $83 billion had been reached.... more

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COP26: Ka-ching?

21. December 2021 |

As so often in the past, climate finance was one of the key issues fought over until the very end at this year’s UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow. The most important results at a glance: The $100 billion... more

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Climate finance at COP26

31. October 2021 |

Starting today, world leaders will gather for the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, to continue working on implementing the Paris Agreement. The dominant topic is likely to be the catastrophic inadequacy of the countries’ contributions to... more

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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

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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

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