Green Climate Fund
Expectations for UN’s Green Climate Fund vary by billions
NEWS: Talks on climate finance continue at UN, but with little clarity on how much money to expect before Lima
UN climate fund chief rejects claims it will finance fossil fuel projects
NEWS: Executive Director Hela Cheikhrouhou says safeguards will ensure only ‘low carbon and resilient’ projects receive funding
UN’s Green Climate Fund ‘ready’ to start work
NEWS: Board agree eight essential requirements, meaning GCF is now ready to start accepting funds from donors
Green Climate Fund edges closer to reality
NEWS: Board agree on risk management framework, one of six ‘essential elements’ that will allow GCF to become operational
Green Climate Fund could end up financing coal and gas, warn NGOs
NEWS: Concerns India and China could push for looser green safeguards as GCF board gathers to rubber-stamp regulations
Trillions at stake as Green Climate Fund board meet in Korea
NEWS: Observers say success of 2015 UN climate change deal hinges on successful launch of GCF later this year
It’s time to look beyond the UN’s $100bn climate finance target
COMMENT: Fixation on hitting arbitrary figure distracts from true goal of building green and resilient communities
Sweden delays $45m Green Climate Fund contribution
NEWS: Slow progress in setting up UN-backed funding mechanism causes confidence to dip to a new low
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
How can developing nations close the climate finance gap?
COMMENT: Cash flows from rich to poor remain slow, but developing nations aren’t wasting time waiting
Green Climate Fund’s future threatened by old divisions
ANALYSIS: UN climate deal hangs on the launch of a new green fund – but splits at board level could see this delayed
Fears grow over Green Climate Fund preparations
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres says board must ensure financial mechanism opens in 2014
Green Climate Fund board hails success despite slow progress
May meeting in Songdo now takes on huge significance with six major decisions needing agreement before fund launch
Green Climate Fund to ring-fence 25% of cash for ‘vulnerable’ nations
Meeting in Bali outlines how funds will be allocated, stressing importance of private sector in leveraging resources
Indonesia pledges $250,000 to Green Climate Fund
Hosts of GCF meeting hope contribution will encourage other countries to fill fund’s coffers
‘Robin Hood’ tax to fund climate efforts could launch in May
Funds generated by a new tax on banks could help countries find money to finance climate change action overseas
UN’s Green Climate Fund to outline funding plans at Bali meeting
Board meeting in Indonesia seeks to clarify how Fund will operate, ready for cash injection later in year
Green Climate Fund: will it deliver a ‘paradigm shift’?
UN’s green bank has been talked up, but few know exactly when, or how, it will really open for business
Figueres hails opening of Green Climate Fund in South Korea
GCF expected to channel large chunk of US$100 billion a year rich countries committed to deliver by 2020
UN Green Climate Fund opens, concerns remain over finance drought
Flagship green investment bank will be ‘unveiled’ in South Korea, but cash machines expected to be empty till late 2014