The different impacts of climate change on men and women and the need for integrating gender concerns into climate policies has long been neglected in international climate finance – despite the increasing recognition that a gender approach can improve its... more
From 28 to 30 June, 2016, The Board of the Green Climate Fund spent three solid days in Songdo, South Korea, discussing the future direction of the Fund. Containing no less than 26 items, the agenda was quite long. Not... more
Deutsche Bank has been accredited as an implementing entity of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) since July 2015. NGOs criticized its inclusion to be sending the wrong signal, as Deutsche Bank is one of the world’s largest financiers of the... more
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are a centerpiece of the new global climate regime that was agreed at COP21 in Paris, and form the foundation for the pathway toward low-carbon and climate-resilient development. By March 2016, 188 countries had submitted their... more
When the Board meets from June 28-30 in Songdo, South Korea, for its 13th Board meeting the 24-member body will focus on working towards closing Fund structural and policy gaps in order to ramp up finance delivery to developing countries. ... more
Ever since, back in 2009, at the Copenhagen climate summit, developed countries made the promise to ramp up climate finance so it reaches the level of $100 billion a year by 2020, developing countries have asked for a roadmap to... more
Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) are a centrepiece of the new global climate regime which was agreed at COP21 in Paris and form the foundation for the pathway towards a low-carbon and climate resilient development. By March 2016, 188 countries have... more
We recently updated our database: information on financing commitments up to and including 2014 are now available (the German government publishes lists of bilateral commitments with some delay, and figures for 2015 have not yet been released). Germany’s commitments for... more
With its mandate to promote a paradigm shift towards low-emissions and climate-resilient development pathways the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has reached full operationalisation in 2015 and is resourced with over US$ 6bn (with more than 10bn pledged). According to its... more
Long nights are nothing unusual for Board meetings of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) anymore. In the recent past, meetings of the largest multilateral climate fund were all too often marked by political battles that went on into the wee... more
Every year, many poor and vulnerable countries around the world are having to cope against the ever increasing climate induced extreme events. Severe poverty, pre-existing economic and social problems and underdevelopment are already a harsh reality in many of these... more
Without the Coalition of Rainforest Nations and its co-founder Kevin Conrad (a former member of the Papua New Guinea delegation, currently Panama) the term “REDD” (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation) probably would not have been a factor in... more
German climate finance is usually analyzed only in terms of the amounts Germany pledges to developing countries. Yet the question of which projects are funded and whether they contribute to moving the world toward a low-emission, sustainable path of economic... more
A broad range of financial commitments were made – and used tactically for negotiating leverage – at COP21. Donor countries delivered climate finance pledges and announcements by the dozen at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris. A (non-exhaustive) summary... more
Judged against low expectations for the 21st UN climate change conference COP21, the acceptance of the Paris Agreement is a historical moment. The agreement, that enters into force after 2020, firmly establishes the 2°C temperature limit under international law; sets... more
This publication by the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) provides an overview of the key developments in international climate finance in 2015.... more
This update of the 11th brief of 12 short introductory briefings that look at various aspects of climate change financing describes the Green Climate Fund (GCF) design process, and outlines key points of tension.... more
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
This is an update of the fifth brief from the series of 12 short introductory briefings that look at various aspects of climate change financing REDD-plus finance has received a lot of attention over recent years with Germany being one... more
This update of the second brief from the series of 12 short introductory briefings that look at various aspects of climate change financing, investigates the evolution of climate finance, describing the main actors and initiatives that have been active to-date.... more
