Green Climate Fund
UN-backed green fund to wean major banks off fossil addiction
INTERVIEW: New alliance with HSBC and Credit Agricole takes flak from civil society, but GCF heads say finance giants are now part of transition away from fossil fuels
Positives emerge from Green Climate Fund link with HSBC
BLOG: Big banks are not a natural partner for the UN’s flagship green fund, but a new link could reap benefits for both
Green Climate Fund considering proposals worth $5 billion
NEWS: UN’s flagship clean investment fund plans radical boost in support for developing countries once strategy is agreed by board this week
Green Climate Fund urged to ditch links to HSBC, Credit Agricole
NEWS: Civil society groups say potential partners are coal-friendly and have chequered past, but finance experts say it needs help from major institutions to leverage green billions
UN Green Climate Fund boss to leave in September
NEWS: Hela Cheikhrouhou to leave when terms ends as clouds gather over flagship venture
Green Climate Fund holds Cape Town ‘crisis’ talks over future
NEWS: Clouds are gathering over flagship scheme UN hopes will spark ‘paradigm shift’ in global clean energy and resilience to global warming
Green Climate Fund must think micro for macro impact
COMMENT: Support for locally-led adaptation initiatives may not sound sexy, but small targeted interventions will help the GCF drive a climate finance paradigm shift
US primed to deliver first $500m to Green Climate Fund
NEWS: Budget bill agreed by Congress opens door for funds to help world’s poorest cope with future climate impacts and invest in clean energy
Climate finance: A gaping wound that needs healing
ANALYSIS: The rich say they’re coughing up, the poor say they’re not getting enough, emerging economies are kicking off. Who’s right?
Green Climate Fund approves first eight projects
NEWS: Board signs off US$168 of investment in clean development and climate resilience in Zambia, after heated debate on lending criteria
Green Climate Fund to reveal first project amid NGO protest
CRIB NOTES 2-5 NOVEMBER: GCF gathers in Zambia, UN debates HFCs in Dubai, Saudis host carbon capture forum
UN climate talks: Will only a global carbon price do?
ANALYSIS: Former chief UK climate science advisor says Paris talks won’t solve global warming, but an unprecedented price on pollution would
Green Climate Fund partners with Deutsche Bank to green fury
NEWS: German giant’s financing of global coal projects prompts environmentalists to question UN fund’s integrity
Top coal funder Deutsche Bank to become Green Climate Fund partner
NEWS: German giant one of 13 new organisations to join forces with flagship fund, but questions raised over fossil fuel backing
Green Climate Fund shortlists projects worth $500m
NEWS: UN-backed fund has identified “promising” ideas and aims to get first cash flowing to poor countries by December
Green Climate Fund says it’s funded and open for business
NEWS: Japan delivers $1.5 billion to allow funds for clean energy projects in developing world to start flowing ahead of Paris summit
US, Japan and Canada miss Green Climate Fund donation deadline
NEWS: Officials say Paris climate deal depends on effective GCF, but without cash warn they cannot invest in developing countries
Print money for climate finance, central banks told
NEWS: German think-tank proposes issuing Green Climate Bonds to raise billions for low carbon technology and climate adaptation in poor countries
Former UN climate chief Yvo de Boer defends coal finance
NEWS: Politicians “too cowardly” to back carbon price, which would offer better climate benefits than attacking coal, says de Boer
No ban on coal finance as Green Climate Fund eyes first projects
NEWS: After lengthy talks in Songdo, UN-backed climate finance scheme has loose lending criteria for first funding proposals