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Briefing note

Climate Finance Short-changed: The real value of the $100 billion commitment in 2019–2020

19/10/2022

5 documents

16 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2009, high-income countries promised to provide $100bn a year in climate finance to low- and middle-income countries by 2020. They have failed to keep this promise. Their official reports claim that the climate finance they provided and mobilized reached $83.3bn in 2020, but Oxfam estimates the real value was only around a third of […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2020: Assessing progress towards the $100 billion commitment

20/10/2020

4 documents

32 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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International climate finance is vital to global cooperation on climate change. As many developing countries reel from the effects of coronavirus, the prospect of climate-induced extreme weather risks compounding crises and poverty. Climate change could undo decades of progress in development and dramatically increase global inequalities. There is an urgent need for climate finance to […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2016: Lifting the lid on progress towards the $100 billion commitment

03/11/2016

2 documents

24 pages long

Languages: English

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In the global push to tackle climate change, international climate finance is essential. Climate finance, both public and private, helps developing countries adapt to climate extremes and develop in a low carbon way. This briefing examines reported international public climate finance flows, taking into account the funding commitments of developed countries under the United Nations […]

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Briefing paper

Breaking the Standoff: Post-2020 climate finance in the Paris agreement

01/12/2014

6 documents

48 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate finance is fundamental to a fair and effective global climate agreement. Too few countries have delivered on their obligations. As a result, the world’s poorest people have not benefitted from the necessary investment, and climate finance has been a major obstacle to achieving a global climate change agreement. This paper suggests a new approach […]

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Briefing paper

Climate, Poverty, and Justice: What the Poznan UN climate conference needs to deliver for a fair and effective global deal

01/12/2008

7 documents

32 pages long

Languages: Chinese, English, French, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish

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Climate finance

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Climate change is the number one threat to human development. Yet progress towards limiting global warming to below 2 C has not been sufficient. The global effort required to reduce emissions and support the poorest and most vulnerable people to adapt to unavoidable changes must be based on objective indicators of countries’ historic responsibilities for […]

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Climate Finance Shadow Report 2020: Assessing progress towards the $100 billion commitment

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2016: Lifting the lid on progress towards the $100 billion commitment

Breaking the Standoff: Post-2020 climate finance in the Paris agreement

Climate, Poverty, and Justice: What the Poznan UN climate conference needs to deliver for a fair and effective global deal