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    June 3, 2015

    RELEASE: New Analysis Offers Pathways for International Climate Funding to Reach $100 Billion Annually by 2020

    • Climate
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    • climate finance
    • UNFCCC
    • Climate
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    • climate finance
    • UNFCCC
    Finance
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    June 3, 2015

    How Can the World Secure $100 Billion in Climate Finance?

    • Climate
    • climate finance
    • UNFCCC
    Developed countries committed to provide $100 billion in climate finance annually by 2020. Photo by orangebrompton/Flickr
    • Climate
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    • UNFCCC
    Climate
    Insights
    May 19, 2015

    Getting It Right: A New Global Model to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change

    • Food
    • Forests
    • Freshwater
    • Finance
    • climate policy
    • poverty
    • sustainable development goals
    • COP21
    Photo Credit: U.S. Mission to the United Nations at Rome
    • Food
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    • Finance
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    • COP21
    Finance
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    May 19, 2015

    3 Activities that Can Help Investors Become More “Climate Friendly”

    • Climate
    • Business
    • climate change
    • fossil fuels
    Solar panels at the Nellis Air Force Base in the United States. Photo by U.S. Air Force/Wikimedia Commons
    • Climate
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    • fossil fuels
    Finance
    Asia
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    April 9, 2015

    Asia’s Investment Bank: A New Chapter in Sustainable Development

    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • multilateral development banks
    • low carbon development
    The new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) can be a powerful force for improving infrastructure in the developing world—but only if its investments benefit local communities and the environment. Photo by World Bank/Flickr.
    • climate finance
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    • multilateral development banks
    • low carbon development
    Finance
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    April 3, 2015

    Major Financial Players Join Forces to Scale up Climate Finance

    • Climate
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    • international climate policy
    • UNFCCC
    Installing solar panels in Tanzania. Photo by Solar Electric Light Fund/Flickr
    • Climate
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    • UNFCCC
    Finance
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    March 21, 2015

    How to Spend the Green Climate Fund’s $10 Billion?

    • Climate Resilience
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    Solar panels in Tinginaput, India. Photo by Abbie Trayler-Smith / Panos Pictures / Department for International Development
    • Climate Resilience
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    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    Finance
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    February 23, 2015

    Putting Citi’s $100 Billion Environmental Finance Initiative in Context

    • Climate
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    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • low carbon development
    In its 2013 Global Citizenship Report, Citi reported more than $2 billion for solar financing. Photo by Walmart/Flickr
    • Climate
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    • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • low carbon development
    Finance
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    February 5, 2015

    Reforming 3 Systems Can Create a New Climate Economy in India

    • Climate
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    • Cities
    • Business
    Traffic congestion in Calcutta, India. Photo by frederik_rowing/Flickr
    • Climate
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    • Cities
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    Food
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    January 23, 2015

    Globalizing Sustainable Development

    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • Food
    • poverty
    • health
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    Today’s challenges go beyond health, food, and education. Photo by Gates Foundation/Flickr
    • Equity & Governance
    • Finance
    • climate change
    • Food
    • poverty
    • health
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    Climate
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    Insights
    December 19, 2014

    Expanding Climate Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean

    • International Climate Action
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • COP20
    Despite difficult negotiations in Lima, discussions signaled the positive outlook among development banks for expanding climate finance in Latin America and the Caribbean. Photo by Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores/Flickr.
    • International Climate Action
    • Finance
    • Climate
    • Paris Agreement
    • climate change
    • climate finance
    • COP20
    Climate
    Asia
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    December 18, 2014

    Going in the Right Direction?

    Finance
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    December 11, 2014

    International Development Finance Club Commits $89 Billion to Climate Finance in 2013

    • Climate
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    • development
    • climate finance
    • Finance
    • international climate policy
    The IDFC can direct more finance to adaptation. Photo by University College London/Flickr.
    • Climate
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    • Finance
    • international climate policy
    Climate
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    December 10, 2014

    Quick Perspective on UN Secretary-General’s Vision for a Post-2015 Agenda

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    • Finance
    • climate change
    • development
    • human rights
    • climate science
    • poverty
    • low carbon development
    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
    Photo by UNDP via OXFAM/Flickr.
    • Equity & Governance
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    • sustainable development goals
    • United Nations
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    December 10, 2014

    3 Promising Pathways to Finance Sustainable Cities

    • Cities
    • Finance
    • climate finance
    • COP20
    • low carbon development
    • multilateral development banks
    • Paris Agreement
    • transportation
    Leaders at COP20 can explore a range of sources for financing low-carbon urban development including multilateral investment banks, private investors, and innovative initatives like the Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions or climate-themed bonds. (Mexico City, Mexico) Photo by Boris G/Flickr.
    • Cities
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    • climate finance
    • COP20
    • low carbon development
    • multilateral development banks
    • Paris Agreement
    • transportation
    Finance
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    December 9, 2014

    STATEMENT: Green Climate Fund Reaches $10 Billion Goal: “A Major Milestone”

    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • UNFCCC
    • climate finance
    • Green Climate Fund
    • UNFCCC
    Finance
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    December 9, 2014

    Building Climate Equity and International Consensus from the Ground Up

    • Climate
    • International Climate Action
    • Energy
    • COP20
    • Climate Equity
    • development
    • Climate Resilience
    • climate finance
    • Equity & Governance
    • human rights
    • UNFCCC
    Scaling up renewable energy access; government installed solar energy in Sumba island, Indonesia. Photo by Asia Development Bank/Flickr.
    • Climate
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    • Energy
    • COP20
    • Climate Equity
    • development
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