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The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2022

11/10/2022

12 documents

Languages: Arabic, English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

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The 2022 Commitment to Reducing Inequality (CRI) Index is the first detailed analysis published looking at governments’ policies and actions to fight inequality during the first two years of the pandemic. This fourth edition of the CRI Index reviews the spending, tax and labour policies and actions of 161 governments during 2020–2022. COVID-19 has increased […]

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Briefing paper

Climate Finance in West Africa: Assessing the state of climate finance in one of the world’s regions worst hit by the climate crisis

27/09/2022

2 documents

34 pages long

Languages: English, French

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In West Africa/Sahel, countries and their communities are experiencing the worst impacts of the climate crisis. Elsewhere, Paris Agreement climate finance commitments are set to prioritise the countries that are most impacted by climate change. However, new research by Oxfam shows that, despite West Africa/Sahel being one of the world’s most climate-vulnerable regions, the international […]

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Briefing note

Unfinished Business: How to close the post-Paris adaptation finance gap

16/05/2016

2 documents

14 pages long

Languages: English, French

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Climate change is a brutal reality confronting millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. Their need for financial support to adapt to climate extremes is urgent and rising. International support for adaptation falls well short of what is needed. Latest estimates indicate that only 16 percent of international climate finance is currently dedicated to adaptation […]

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Issue briefing

Adaptation and the $100 billion Commitment: Why private investment cannot replace public finance in critical climate adaptation

18/11/2013

3 documents

16 pages long

Languages: English, French, Spanish

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Private finance has a vital role to play in the global response to climate change, but it is not a substitute for public finance. Developed countries have committed to mobilizing $100 billion in climate finance per year by 2020 to support climate adaptation and mitigation in developing countries. Reliance on private finance over public to […]

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The Commitment to Reducing Inequality Index 2022

Climate Finance in West Africa: Assessing the state of climate finance in one of the world’s regions worst hit by the climate crisis

Unfinished Business: How to close the post-Paris adaptation finance gap

Adaptation and the $100 billion Commitment: Why private investment cannot replace public finance in critical climate adaptation