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Briefing paper

Leaving No One Behind: A green bargain for people and planet

21/09/2023

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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With the increasing frequency of fires, floods, droughts and other extreme weather events, countries across the world are facing a new era of climate-linked crises. The international climate finance system – through mitigation, adaptation and potentially now through loss and damage – is seeking to reduce and address these impacts. In parallel, the humanitarian system […]

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Discussion paper

Are G20 Countries Doing Their Fair Share of Global Climate Mitigation?: Comparing ambition and fair shares assessments of G20 countries’ Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)

07/09/2023

2 documents

52 pages long

Languages: English

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As the group of the world’s largest economies and biggest emitters, G20 countries are central to implementing solutions to the climate emergency. This discussion paper assesses to what extent they are setting climate mitigation targets that are ambitious enough and/or meet their fair share of global emissions reductions consistent with limiting global heating to 1.5°C. […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2023: Assessing the delivery of the $100 billion commitment

05/06/2023

8 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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In 2009, high-income countries committed in the Copenhagen Accords to mobilize US$100 billion a year by 2020 in climate finance for low- and middle-income countries. Oxfam reported on the progress of this commitment in 2016, 2018 and 2020. This year’s report finds that high-income countries have not only failed to deliver on their commitment, but […]

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Briefing paper

Climate finance in Asia: Assessing the state of climate finance in one of the world’s most climate vulnerable regions

01/11/2022

1 documents

62 pages long

Languages: English

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Asia is particularly vulnerable to climate hazards including extreme temperatures, flooding, droughts, cyclones, and sea level rise. The most vulnerable communities need financial support to help adapt to the climate crisis – they cannot do so alone. Developed countries have promised $100 bn in climate finance to developing countries every year until 2025. This promise […]

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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

Footing the Bill: Fair finance for loss and damage in an era of escalating climate impacts

07/06/2022

8 documents

36 pages long

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish

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The world has entered a new and dangerous era of climate change impacts, causing huge loss and damage and driving up inequality in the world’s poorest countries and communities that have contributed least to the climate crisis. New research by Oxfam estimates that funding requirements for UN humanitarian appeals linked to extreme weather are eight […]

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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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Media briefing

Forced from Home: Climate-fuelled displacement

02/12/2019

3 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English

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Climate-fuelled disasters were the number one driver of internal displacement over the last decade – forcing an estimated 20 million people a year from their homes. While no one is immune, it is overwhelmingly poor countries that are most at risk. Eighty percent of those displaced in the last decade live in Asia, home to […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance Shadow Report 2018: Assessing progress towards the $100 billion commitment

03/05/2018

3 documents

28 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Climate finance efforts by developed countries are at a critical juncture. There are only two years before the deadline by which developed countries have committed to jointly mobilize $100bn per year to support climate action in developing countries. This $100bn commitment has a pivotal role to play in supporting developing countries to reduce their emissions […]

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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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