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Seven steps the UN climate talks COP23 could take to advance climate finance

1. November 2017 |

When COP23 opens its gates this week, many negotiators will mostly want to focus on two issues: the rulebook of for implementing the Paris Agreement, although it seems the term rulebook is too strong for the taste of some who... more

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US$ 100 billion climate finance roadmap leaves room for improvement

1. November 2016 |

Just in time for the next UN climate change conference COP22 in Morocco, developed countries have now, finally, presented their climate finance roadmap how they project to meet their promise to ramp up climate finance to US$ 100 billion a... more

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IPCC reports II and III: What are the implications for climate finance?

8. July 2014 |

The IPCC has recently published two important documents. The report by Working Group II, “Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability,” sheds special light on the consequences of climate change, while Working Group III’s report, “Mitigation of Climate Change,” presents the current state... more

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German Federal Budget 2014: Cutbacks Hit Climate Aid

2. May 2014 |

Only in late 2013, at the UN climate conference in Warsaw, Germany signed a resolution that specifically called on the industrialized countries to ensure a continuous rise in funding, especially public funding, over the coming years. Apparently, since then the... more

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Pressure on GCF Board increases after Bali meeting makes few decisions

26. March 2014 |

— After only a handful of decisions at the last GCF Board meeting in Bali, the first one lead by the new German and Philippine co-chairs, the pressure on 24 Board members increases to deliver at the Board’s all important... more

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Crucial year for the GCF starts with Board meeting in Bali

13. February 2014 |

Germany as new GCF Board co-chair carries the responsibility for steering the GCF through a make-or break year so that the Fund can finalize its operational modalities and start receiving significant initial contributions – hopefully also from Germany — later... more

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Warsaw Climate Change Conference Brings Modest Progress in Climate Finance but Leaves Important Questions Unanswered

27. January 2014 |

The annual international climate change summit took place in the Polish capital, Warsaw, in November last year. As in the previous year, the issue of international climate finance attracted lengthy and controversial debate, remaining unresolved until the last minute. In... more

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Upping the Ante. The 5th Green Climate Fund Board Meeting speeds up progress on the Fund’s Business Model and sets a time-line for GCF resource mobilization :

13. November 2013 |

At its 5th meeting from October 7 – 10, 2013 in Paris, France, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) rose to the challenge that the Co-Chairs posed in presenting the 24-member group with a near “mission impossible” to... more

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Climate Policy backwards: German Government insures export of climate killers

15. July 2013 |

Parallel to providing financial support to developing countries in the fight against climate change, the German government subsidizes the export of climate killers – in essence, that was the federal government’s reply to a written inquiry by the Green MP... more

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The German 2014 federal budget: climate finance commitments to be cut

3. July 2013 |

If the German federal government follows through with its plans, the promised increase in financial support for poor countries for climate protection and adaptation to climate change will soon come to an end. That, at any rate, is apparent from... more