Green Climate Fund
Who pays for climate change: What we learnt after day one of the UNFCCC finance workshop
Updates from the first day of the UN workshop on climate finance as diplomats and NGOs gather to discuss how to raise and distribute the billions of dollars required to prepare for, and limit the impacts of climate change.
Rio+20: What does the Earth Summit’s outcome mean for climate change?
The Rio+20 document is jam packed with caveats, ifs, buts and maybes. So what concrete action does it contain, and what implications are there for action on climate change?
Bonn 2012 – Week one round-up with E3G
E3G’s Liz Gallagher talks RTCC through the first week of the Bonn climate talks including equity, ambition and finance.
Green Climate Fund suffers blow as board’s first meeting delayed
UNFCCC calls for more nominations and urges countries not to drop pace of progress with crucial climate fund.
We must close gaps on funding and ambition: UN climate change chief
As negotiations resume in Bonn, the head of the UNFCCC Christiana Figueres says key issues of finance and ambition must be resolved this year.
Bonn 2012 climate change talks: Where is the ambition?
Key climate negotiations start on Monday 15 May – but analysis shows positions have not changed since end of COP17 in Durban.
Developing countries look for fairer sustainable development funding
BRICS group, which includes India and China, begins work on development bank exclusively for emerging economies to counter perceived Western bias among existing organisations.
Paying for climate change: The crucial role of stable policy
The UK solar subsidy fiasco exemplifies the crucial role of policy in raising funds to fight climate change and promote low-carbon sustainable development.
COP17: Business “shrugs its shoulders” at Durban outcome
Business was looking for clarity from Durban. While the waters may have been muddied, a fragile framework to underpin global emissions trading and low-carbon economies has started to materialise.
COMMENT: The tug-of-war over the private sector – time to stop?
Hannah Ryder, senior economist with the UK’s Department for International Development and former climate change negotiator tells RTCC why delegates in Durban need to focus on what the Green Climate Fund will do with its money, as well as how it sources those funds.
Day 9 – Breaking news from COP17
Breaking news, tweets, interviews, webcasts and gossip from the COP17 climate talks in Durban.
Bank of America: ‘No limit’ to scale of private sector finance
As Green Climate Fund talks continue, private sector urges swift action to mobilise resources.
Green Climate Fund is “a matter of survival” for millions
As negotiations stutter in Durban RTCC looks at what the GCF means to those needing its help and explores the role of private sector finance in its future development.
Rich countries can afford to raise the funding they have promised, say leading NGOs
Speaking at their daily briefing, members from ActionAid, WWF and Oxfam joined together to call for the Green Climate Fund to materialise following yesterday’s set-backs.
Japan and US block Green Climate Fund progress
Disagreements over use of money from big business and so-called Robin Hood taxes blot positive session.
UNFCCC opens books on $30bn climate fund
Online portal allows public to access data on donor and recipient countries of climate change finance.
USA: Developing countries should contribute to Green Climate Fund
Top negotiator calls for rapidly expanding economies such as China and Brazil to add their share to $100 billion climate change support system.
Have bankers won the moral high-ground on climate change?
They’re not usually singled out for praise but many in the banking and finance sector have got their sustainability house in order and look set to top-up shrunken climate funds.
Climate aid must not be wasted warn scientists
Scientists warn that if climate change aid programmes are ineffective and money is wasted, donations will dry up just as climate change grows most dangerous.
Vulnerable countries unite ahead of COP17
Vulnerable countries have presented a united front ahead of COP17 in Durban, calling for a second term of the Kyoto Protocol with a legally binding agreement on greenhouse gas emissions.