Tag: Climate Finance

Is Climate Finance the Next Bubble? (Arvind Subramanian, Project-Syndicate)

While the conventional wisdom is that the next financial crash will come from the collapse of the cryptocurrency bubble, climate finance may pose a...

The IMF’s Misstep on Climate Finance (Sara Jane Ahmed, Alicia Barcena, Daniel Titelman, Project-Syndicate)

The IMF’s allocation of $650 billion in special drawing rights in August was long encouraged and widely welcomed. But its follow-up proposal for channeling...

Fixing Climate Finance (Jeffrey D. Sachs, Project-Syndicate)

The United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) fell far short of what is needed for a safe planet, owing mainly to the...

The geoeconomics of climate finance (Akshay Mathur, Mannat Jaspal, ORF)

The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that an annual investment of US $2.4 trillion is needed in the energy sector alone until 2035...

Greening Asia for the long haul: What can central banks do? (Siddharth Tiwari, Brookings)

Here in Hong Kong, Category 8 typhoons used to be infrequent. Just as floods in Germany and massive wildfires in California were disasters we...

Climate finance meets low-carbon agtech (Jonathan Phillips, Victoria Plutshack, and Rob Fetter, Brookings)

Headlining the climate finance discussions next week at COP26 may be the shortfall in advanced economies’ $100 billion annual pledge to help low- and...

Africa calls for climate finance tracker after donors fall short (Al Jazeera)

African countries want a new system to track funding from wealthy nations that are failing to meet a $100bn annual target to help the...

Coal Power Finance in High-Impact Countries (Kyle Blocher, Morgan Richmond, Chavi Meattle, Federico Mazza and Melina Dickson, Climate Policy Initiative)

Investment in new coal-fired power plants persists globally despite misalignment with a net-zero economy and the falling costs of renewable energy technologies. This knowledge...

Climate Finance Can Transform Food Systems (Barbara Buchner, Climate Policy Institute)

September 23-24, 2021 was the first-ever UN Food Systems Summit, convened to mobilize the highest-priority transformations needed to end hunger through the sustainable production...

Climate Finance – Is Climate Finance Supporting Frontline Communities? Most Governments Don’t Know (World Resources Institute)

Tamara Coger, Ayesha Dinshaw, Nisha Krishnan and Brandon Pytel  write: Climate impacts are here, now, and they are felt most acutely by local communities already disproportionately vulnerable to economic, health...

USA/Climate Finance/Infrastructure Resilience – Rethinking climate finance to improve infrastructure resilience (Joseph W. Kane, Adie Tomer, and Caroline George, Brookings)

The impacts of a changing climate are no longer a hypothetical. Each year, extreme events such as hurricanes, droughts, fires, and freezes grow more...

(Climate Finance) Climate finance: What are the ‘known unknowns’? (Brookings)

Homi Kharas and Andrew Rogerson This year could prove—indeed must prove, for humanity’s sake—a watershed in terms of international commitments to halt unsustainable global warming in the runup to...

(Europe/Climate Finance) EU should set a joint and ambitious standard for climate finance (Conor O’Neill and Mattias Söderberg, Euractiv)

As COP 26 approaches, the EU needs to adopt a joint and ambitious approach to climate finance to ensure that EU countries stand by...