WRI Stories Feed: Climate Finance

Strengthening Ownership and Effectiveness of Climate Finance

Milap Patel — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:43:20 -0400

The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), one of the world’s largest dedicated funding facilities for climate change mitigation/adaptation projects,…

The End of Poverty? The World Bank and the Shared Prosperity Agenda

Milap Patel — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:09:11 -0400

Within our lifetimes, the world could be free of widespread, extreme poverty, replaced instead with shared prosperity and environmental and fiscal balance. That was the vision World Bank President Jim Yong Kim outlined at his first…

How Much Did the United States Contribute to International Fast-Start Finance?

Taryn Fransen — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:59:23 -0400

This post was co-authored with Jenna Blumenthal, an intern with WRI’s Climate and Energy program.

As U.S. government officials take stock of…

Climate Finance in East Africa: Stories and Lessons

Louise Brown — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:02:29 -0400

This post originally appeared on the Climate Development and Knowledge Network’s (CDKN) website.

Having recently…

Unlocking Climate Finance: How Can Multilateral Agencies Better Leverage the Private Sector?

Aman Srivastava — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:32:37 -0500

The Doha negotiations that just concluded earlier this month have again drawn attention to the urgent need for climate…

Reflections on COP 18 in Doha: Negotiators Made Only Incremental Progress

Jennifer Morgan — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:09:27 -0500

This piece was written with analysis from Athena Ballesteros, Edward Cameron, Yamide Dagnet, Florence Daviet, Aarjan Dixit, Heather McGray, and Clifford Polycarp.

Expectations…

What’s the Future of the Climate Investment Funds?

Clifford Polycarp — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:29:09 -0400

The committees governing the $7 billion Climate Investment Funds (CIFs) – the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the…

WRI Launches Project on Climate Finance and the Private Sector

Shilpa Patel — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:24:55 -0400

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that our best chance of containing global temperature rise to 2°C is to keep atmospheric concentration of…

The Green Climate Fund Board Meeting: Highs, Lows, and a Host Country

Louise Brown — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:09:29 -0400

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board wrapped up its second meeting on Saturday with a major decision:…

Why Is Choosing a Host Country for the Green Climate Fund Such an Important Decision?

Louise Brown — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:23:20 -0400

The second meeting of the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the institution that’s expected to become the main global fund for climate change finance, will take place…