The goals of the Paris Agreement will be missed unless there is a rapid and substantial increase in investment in emerging market and developing countries, leading finance experts have warned today (Wednesday 30 November) in a new report commissioned by the COP27 and COP28 Presidencies and the United Nations High-Level Climate Champions for COP27 and COP28. Read more
Actual investment performance on key climate priorities in emerging markets and developing countries has stalled. This second report from Independent High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance focuses on how to accelerate investment to deliver the goals of the Paris Agreement and implement a framework for action. Read more
This article reports on a new assessment published by the Transition Pathway Initiative Centre which shows that only 1% of... Read more
This article reports on the failure of some countries to provide extra money for the World Bank to support poorer... Read more
In this letter Nicholas Stern responds to the failure of some countries, including the United States, to pledge funding for... Read more
This briefing outlines the opportunities for the G20 to provide momentum to further the agenda of mobilising private sources for climate action. Read more
Remarks made by Nicholas Stern and Amar Bhattacharya at the Summit for a New Global Financial Pact in Paris on 22 June 2023. The Summit was opened by French President Emmanuel Macron. Read more
In this guest commentary, Ely Sandler and Rob Macquarie describe how a novel use of Article 6 of the Paris... Read more
The authors of this paper study the coordination efforts of the two most important multilateral climate funds, the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and the Green Climate Fund (GCF), on the global level as well as within two recipient countries, Kenya and Zambia. Read more
Alejandra Padín-Dujon writes that the World Bank’s massive, longstanding vehicle for climate finance, the CTF, was notably absent from climate conversations at the World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings. Read more
