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In the crosshairs of the debt and climate crisis: pathways to financing sustainable development in a critical era

21. May 2024 |

An independent Group of 20 (G20) expert group estimates that emerging market and developing economies (excluding China) need to mobilise around three trillion US dollars annually to achieve the Paris Climate Agreement and the United Nations’ 2030 Agenda for Sustainable... more
ArticleInternational development finance / Biodiversity/REDD+

High and dry: finance is crucial to successful negotiations at the 2022 UN Biodiversity Conference

14. July 2022 |

Just as with international climate finance, financing is a crucial issue in the negotiations on the Convention on Biological Diversity. In a guest post on www.deutscheklimafinanzierung.de, Florian Titze of WWF Deutschland explains the issues that need to be resolved in... more
Article / International climate finance / International development finance / Pledges & Commitments

G7: Meagre results for climate finance

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3. July 2022 |

At the G7 summit, heads of state and government also discussed financial support for poorer countries for cutting emissions and adaptating to climate change – with less-than-impressive results. One can hardly claim that the G7 summit made any significant progress... more
Article / International climate finance / International development finance / Private climate finance

Compact with Africa: Is the G20 investment program undermining the Paris Agreement and Agenda 2030?

15. May 2017 |

The G20, the group of the world’s leading industrial and emerging countries, is a central forum for shaping the conditions that govern the global economy and the financial world. For some years now, sustainable development, climate policy and green growth... more
Article / International climate finance / International development finance / Private climate finance

G20 must set the course on international climate finance

30. March 2017 |

Financial support for poorer countries from those who are largely to blame for climate change is a key prerequisite for international cooperation in climate policy. While this issue is not explicitly part of the official G20 agenda, current processes within... more
ArticleInternational development finance / Mitigation

OECD decision on coal finance: an important signal, but not yet enough

26. November 2015 |

On November 17, 2015, the industrialized countries of the OECD agreed on massive restrictions on export credits for new coal power plants. The deal came about through pressure from the United States government after hard negotiations with coal-friendly countries such... more
ArticleInternational development finance / Mitigation

KfW’s coal financing in Serbia

17. April 2015 |

The Heinrich Böll Foundation recently published an e-paper by Roger Moody for which the author used information available on From Money to Metal, a website that he has been furnishing with data about investment in mining for years. For the... more
ArticleInternational development finance / Mitigation / Private climate finance

Germany and France lead the EU in financing international coal projects through export credits

20. March 2015 |

Between 2003 and 2013, the 34 member countries of the OECD provided export credits for coal-fired power plants to the tune of $12.8 billion. One third of that amount came from EU countries: France ($1.8 billion) and Germany ($1.1 billion)... more

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

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
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