UN-backed report calls on policymakers to dramatically increase funding for early warning systems that can boost nations' resilience to extreme weather events in response to rising threat from extreme storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires
Speaking at pre-COP talks in Costa Rica UK Climate Minister Lord Duncan urges other countries to step up their climate commitments
Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance aims to mobilise billions of dollars of investment towards sustainable farming, improved energy access, and clean energy projects
Many of the new projects to be developed over the next five years will be backed by corporate power purchase agreements, investor says
Network for Greening the Financial System sets out key recommendations for world's central banks to address climate risk and spur green investment
Negotiators expect talks to run into the weekend, but hopes for finished rule book remain high
As the cost of green energy drops, countries are grappling with how to let private markets engage with the thorny issue of climate finance
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Renewable Energy Performance Platform to support up to 40 new renewable energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa
Private finance crashed the economy and is too consumed by the profit motive to be a reliable ally against climate change. We should not allow COP24 to be their board meeting, argues Tomaso Ferrando from the University of Bristol