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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

Adaptation / Green Climate Fund (GCF) / Implementation of climate finance

Well-intentioned instead of well-done: The risk of maladaptation in private-sector climate finance

13. May 2022 |

Adaptation to climate change is necessary to ensure that impacts do not overwhelm societies and ecosystems around the world. But adaptation planning is an exercise in uncertainty, and because it is based on imperfect information, adaptation strategies can also fail.... more

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Climate finance in the 2022 federal budget: Is Germany shirking its commitments?

10. May 2022 |

Things are not looking good for climate finance in the 2022 German federal budget. Instead of gradually increasing funding to achieve annual budgetary allocations of around six billion euros for climate finance by 2025 as promised, Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s... more

G20/G7 / 100 billion / International climate finance

German G7 presidency: Five areas for advancing climate finance in 2022

2. March 2022 |

Germany’s G7 presidency in 2022 offers a unique opportunity for the (still relatively) new German government to advance the global climate finance agenda – and make good for some of the rich countries’ (including Germany’s) shortfalls of the past and... more

G20/G7 / 100 billion

G7 in 2022: Five areas for advancing climate finance

Germany’s presidency of the 2022 G7 process offers a unique opportunity for the new German government to advance the global climate finance agenda – and make good for some of the rich countries’ (including Germany’s) shortfalls of the past. This policy brief jointly produced by Germanwatch, CARE and Oxfam describes five key areas for advancing climate finance in 2022 by the G7.

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International climate finance / 100 billion / UNFCCC

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

Implementation of climate finance / Green Climate Fund (GCF)

In tree plantations in Paraguay, public money is driving private profit: What is Germany’s role?

9. December 2021 |

Forestry and land-use are a hot topic in the current climate debate, and play an important role in German climate finance. This article looks at tree plantations that have received support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) that Germany is... more

100 billion / International climate finance / UNFCCC

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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