Green Climate Fund Archives

Seven steps to cracking the climate finance conundrum

ANALYSIS: Funding low carbon investments in developing countries lies at the core of UN talks – but it’s not impossible

COMMENT: Cash flows from rich to poor remain slow, but developing nations aren’t wasting time waiting

ANALYSIS: UN climate deal hangs on the launch of a new green fund – but splits at board level could see this delayed

UN climate chief Christiana Figueres says board must ensure financial mechanism opens in 2014

May meeting in Songdo now takes on huge significance with six major decisions needing agreement before fund launch

Meeting in Bali outlines how funds will be allocated, stressing importance of private sector in leveraging resources

Hosts of GCF meeting hope contribution will encourage other countries to fill fund’s coffers

Funds generated by a new tax on banks could help countries find money to finance climate change action overseas

Board meeting in Indonesia seeks to clarify how Fund will operate, ready for cash injection later in year

UN’s green bank has been talked up, but few know exactly when, or how, it will really open for business

GCF expected to channel large chunk of US$100 billion a year rich countries committed to deliver by 2020

Flagship green investment bank will be ‘unveiled’ in South Korea, but cash machines expected to be empty till late 2014

Billed as the ‘finance summit’, Warsaw delivered little and promised less, leaving many questions unanswered

EU has confirms budget for next seven years, directing €180bn towards climate finance, with €15bn to go towards developing countries

Green Climate Fund was designed to ensure civil society engagement in decisions, but some fear this is being forgotten

A new funding idea for developing countries could provide the renewable electricity output equivalent of 100 new coal plants by 2020.

Scheduled UN climate gathering of world leaders in 2014 appears to be best opportunity for countries to make significant pledges

NGOs promote ethical investment as Green Climate Fund board meets to decide how to deliver $100bn to developing countries

A series of UN-sponsored long term climate finance talks concluded today in South Korea. E3G’s Amal-Lee Amin explains what we have learnt

Analysts believe agreement on funding for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries now unlikely at COP19 UN talks in Warsaw