The German contribution to International Climate Finance

Why being a pioneer for international climate finance pays off!

31. October 2022 |

When it comes to pledges for international climate financing, there is always a need for pioneers who set an impulse in the right direction. In the past, Germany has repeatedly taken on this pioneering role and thus increased the pressure... more

100 billion / German climate finance / Pledges & Commitments

New data on German climate finance in 2021: a brief analysis

Fig. 2: German Climate Finance 2017-2025

28. October 2022 |

The federal government has now presented its official figures on climate finance in 2021, showing that amounts have indeed increased. Here is a closer look at the figures. According to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, budget... more

Publikation100 billion / Adaptation / Pledges & Commitments / UNFCCC

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

Implementation of climate finance / German climate finance / Transparency

Potentials and Risks of the African Forest Landscape Restoration (AFR100) Initiative

25. October 2022 |

Commercial tree plantations are a major cause of land degradation and have no place in efforts to restore degraded ecosystems. Germany as one of the main supporters of AFR100 needs to act on excluding them from the initiative. Across Africa,... more

Federal budget / German climate finance / Pledges & Commitments

German federal budget 2023: Government ignores climate finance pledge – again!

7. September 2022 |

With its draft federal budget for 2023, the German government wants to keep climate finance for developing countries down at the 2021 level – thus moving further away from its 2021 pledge and eroding the carefully crafted balance of trust... more

100 billion / Pledges & Commitments / UNFCCC

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

Other issues / International climate finance

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

G20/G7 / 100 billion / International climate finance / Pledges & Commitments

G7: Meagre results for climate finance

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

100 billion / German climate finance / Pledges & Commitments

Update: German planned climate finance in 2022 and 2023 remain at odds with Germany’s pledge

16. June 2022 |

With the final adoption of the federal budget by the German parliament, German climate finance is not to grow in 2022 as would be consistent with gradually fulfil the German government’s pledge made the G7 summit in 2021. The German... more

International climate finance / G20/G7

After the May ministerials: where does Germany’s G7 presidency stand on climate impacts finance?

3. June 2022 |

A busy month for Germany’s G7 presidency has come to an end, with preparations for the G7 leaders’ summit in the Bavarian mountains, scheduled from the 26th to 28th of June, heating up. A number of climate action relevant ministerials... more

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