Innovative Finance: Time for a “Hail Mary” for the Climate
So it’s come down to this, a “Hail Mary pass for the climate.” At the end of an American football game, the losing team, down by three or four scores with virtually no possibility of winning, often...
View ArticleEl Salvador stresses adaptation to keep its head above water
By Adam Kotin When devastating floods hit El Salvador in October 2011, 40% of the country’s crops were wiped out. Agricultural Minister José Guillermo López Suárez was forced to import the nation’s...
View ArticleVenezuela – Claudia Salerno won’t be sidelined at the COP17
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View ArticleClimate Funds Update: data visualisation tool – A How To guide
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View ArticleClimate Finance and Global Development Post-2012: Clearing the Fog at Doha
For 15 years, climate policy wonks have been talking about “the post-2012 World,” describing the years after the end of the Kyoto Protocol’s “first commitment period,” which ran from 2005 to 2012....
View ArticleCOP18 closing briefing by UNFCCC’s Christiana Figueres
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View ArticleThe World Bank and the Green Climate Fund: “an ironic contradiction”?
Since the creation of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in 2010, concerns have grown about the World Bank’s potential role in designing policies to determine the allocation of resources for adaptation and...
View ArticleSecond Meeting of Experts on Long-term Finance, 20/08/13
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View ArticleGrey Skies in Warsaw: the UNFCCC Climate Change Negotiations Enter Their...
By Timmons Roberts and Claire Langley The winter skies were a dim grey as the second and final week began at the United Nations climate change negotiations in Warsaw, Poland. Sadly, the hopes for an...
View ArticleGovernments can say no to fossil fuels
The fossil fuel lobby has a disproportionate influence on world leaders, but governments are not as powerless as they pretend. If we are serious about closing the emission gap this decade and...
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