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COP29: Focus turns to climate finance as talks on new headline goal stall

Investment

COP29: Focus turns to climate finance as talks on new headline goal stall

Despite warm words and some encouraging funding pledges, the first phase of talks in Baku have made little progress towards agreeing a new global climate finance target

clock 13 November 2024 • 10 min read
'A regrettable form of unconscious bias': How Mia Mottley wants world leaders to tackle the self-defeating climate finance regime

Investment

'A regrettable form of unconscious bias': How Mia Mottley wants world leaders to tackle the self-defeating climate finance regime

Barbados Prime Minister argues significant reform to global financial architecture is urgently needed if developing economies are to avoid climate disaster

clock 04 December 2023 • 9 min read
'An inflexion point': Paris Summit sketches out roadmap for ambitious climate finance reform

Policy

'An inflexion point': Paris Summit sketches out roadmap for ambitious climate finance reform

Meeting delivers encouraging progress, but campaigners warn urgent action now needed to deliver 'taboo-busting' reforms to international financial architecture

clock 23 June 2023 • 7 min read
Paris Finance Summit delivers debt pause deal for climate vulnerable countries

Policy

Paris Finance Summit delivers debt pause deal for climate vulnerable countries

But campaigners warn ambitious agreement urgently needed to reform global financial system and accelerate flows of climate finance

clock 23 June 2023 • 6 min read
'A new global consensus': World leaders vow to deliver a 'green transition that leaves no one behind'

Investment

'A new global consensus': World leaders vow to deliver a 'green transition that leaves no one behind'

Ahead of Paris meeting, world leaders call for increased role for public and private finance as they warn Sustainable Development Goals and climate targets are at risk

clock 21 June 2023 • 7 min read