Themes: Climate finance

Themes: Climate finance

Developing countries need an estimated US$100 billion per year in climate finance by 2020 to adapt to climate change and help them shift toward low-carbon development paths. The funds are still only partly committed by governments and only partly available on private markets. Explore our projects, publications and blogs urging increased ambition, below.

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27th March 2016
After Paris - “Going from intended to implemented, that is the question” says Margaret Kamau, Kenya Kenya aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by 2030 relative to Business As Usual. Margaret Kamau, CDKN's Country Engagement and Project Manager talks to Miren Gutiérrez about what this target means for her country.
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24th March 2016
Green Climate Fund Board sets itself on even keel for 2016 decisions The Green Climate Fund’s (GCF) latest Board meeting took place in Songdo, South Korea, from 8-10 March 2016. CDKN's Christina Elvers observed the proceedings.
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21st March 2016
Clean energy without currency risk Harald Hirschhofer of TCX says that foreign exchange risks have caused a hurdle to rolling out renewable energy technologies in some countries. But now development finance institutions are helping firms manage the risk and expand their operations.
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Project : Building Readiness of the Private Sector in Bangladesh for Green Climate Fund (GCF) Accreditation

CDKN is requested to support private banks and financial institutions in Bangladesh in building their capacity and raising awareness on climate finance mechanisms particularly to support access to international funds from the Private Sector Facility window of Green Climate Fund.

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29th February 2016
Follow Paris Agreement with green investment deals The next step after the Paris Climate Agreement is to turn countries’ national climate commitments into investment deals, says CDKN’s Ari Huhtala. Here, he reports on the latest meeting of the San Giorgio Group: a group of eminent climate finance specialists.
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3rd February 2016
Seeking out climate finance for resilient Indian cities Srinivas Krishnaswamy reports on project activities for the CDKN supported project Finding the Finance: Climate Compatible development in Asian cities. Srinivas Krishnaswamy, is the Chief Executive Officer of Vasudha Foundation, a non-profit organization that works on projects and activities related to clean energy, energy access and climate policy.
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27th January 2016
Mainstreaming climate information into sector development plans: the case of Rwanda’s tea and coffee sectors Mainstreaming climate information into sector development plans: the case of Rwanda’s tea and coffee sectors
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8th January 2016
Climate finance options for cities Lisa Junghans, Policy Advisor - Climate Change, Adaptation and Urban Transformation at Germanwatch introduces a recent CDKN-supported publication on financing climate compatible development in cities.
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4th January 2016
What opportunities do private investors see in low emission development? Ron Benioff asked Kyung-ah Park of the Environmental Markets Group of Goldman Sachs how the global investment community is engaging with low emission opportunities. Ms Park outlined Goldman's $150 billion clean energy commitment - and shared her optimistic outlook.
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29th December 2015
Climate finance options for National Climate Funds The maturation of the international climate finance landscape is presenting country climate funds with the opportunity to access larger, more transformative capital. Charlotte Ellis and John Ward of Adam Smith International share lessons learned from Rwanda for maximising a national climate fund's potential to mobilise resources.
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22nd December 2015
Four lessons from supporting Ethiopia’s Green Climate Fund planning What is required in developing projects for the Green Climate Fund? Kirsty Wilson, Principal Consultant – Climate Change, LTS International looks at four key lessons learned from the experience of supporting the Government of Ethiopia prepare a proposal to the Fund.
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Project : Ethiopia’s consolidation and packaging of programmatic GCF proposals 

This project will package and consolidate Ethiopia’s GCF programmatic proposals – one focusing on the industry, urban development and the energy nexus and the other on land use sectors (i.e. agriculture, water and forestry)