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What Is the Paris Agreement’s Article 2.1(c) on Climate Finance, and Why Does it Matter? Key Questions, Answered

  • climate finance
  • Paris Agreement
  • Paying for Paris
  • COP28
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
Man replanting mangroves for coastal protection
  • climate finance
  • Paris Agreement
  • Paying for Paris
  • COP28
  • Climate
  • International Climate Action
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Developing Countries Won’t Beat the Climate Crisis Without Tackling Rising Debt

  • climate finance
  • Climate
  • Paying for Paris
  • COP28
Woman rows boat in flooded Benin village.
  • climate finance
  • Climate
  • Paying for Paris
  • COP28
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What to Watch at the First Africa Climate Summit

  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • COP28
Rooftop solar panels in Kenya
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • Energy
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • Forests
  • Cities
  • COP28
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What It Takes to Attract Private Investment to Climate Adaptation

  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • Paying for Paris
People walk down a heavily flooded market street in Lagos, Nigeria
  • Finance
  • adaptation finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation
  • Paying for Paris
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What’s After Coal? Accelerating China’s Overseas Investment in Renewables

  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels
Aerial photo of solar power station in Hangzhou, China
  • Finance
  • renewable energy
  • fossil fuels
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How Countries Can Pay for Climate Action

  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation finance
  • Paris Agreement
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
  • Paying for Paris
Men installing solar panels to a roof in Southern California
  • Finance
  • climate finance
  • adaptation finance
  • Paris Agreement
  • climatewatch-pinned
  • COP28
  • Paying for Paris
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What the World Can Learn from Fiji’s National Climate Finance Strategy

  • floods
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • climate finance
  • Paying for Paris
A young girl wades through a flooded village after a tropical cyclone hit Fiji in 2016. Flood events and storm surges have become increasingly common in the country in recent years.
  • floods
  • Climate
  • Climate Resilience
  • adaptation
  • climate finance
  • Paying for Paris
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Dump trucks and cranes carrying and extracting coal from a coal work site.
  • fossil fuels
  • renewable energy
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Why the Green Climate Fund Should Give Developing Countries Greater Direct Access to Finance

  • Green Climate Fund
  • climate finance
  • Climate
  • COP26
  • Paying for Paris
Wetland restoration in Peru
  • Green Climate Fund
  • climate finance
  • Climate
  • COP26
  • Paying for Paris
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Energy Access Is Key to Sub-Saharan Africa's Economic Recovery

  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • coronavirus
  • electric grid
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
  • health
  • renewable energy
A young South African woman holds up a cloth face mask next to a sewing machine.
  • Energy Access
  • Energy
  • coronavirus
  • electric grid
  • Economics
  • agriculture
  • Finance
  • fossil fuels
  • health
  • renewable energy

Importing a Good Idea to the U.S.: Parametric Insurance and Climate-Related Risks

  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Paying for Paris
YMCA Mountain fire, Colorado, July 2020
  • Finance
  • Climate Resilience
  • Paying for Paris
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Governments already have the tools they need to shift and mobilize climate finance.
  • climate finance
  • Paying for Paris
  • Paris Agreement
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4 Ways Development Banks Can Better Support the Paris Agreement

  • Climate
  • COP24
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • Paying for Paris
Development banks can make the long road to sustainability easier. Flickr/Mountain Partnership at FAO
  • Climate
  • COP24
  • National Climate Action
  • Paris Agreement
  • Paying for Paris

Colombia’s Climate Finance Tracking System Registers $6 Billion Worth of Action

  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Paying for Paris
Bogota, Colombia
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • Paying for Paris
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There Are Billions of Dollars Available for Climate Projects. Collaboration Can Help Countries Access It.

  • COP23
  • climate finance
  • adaptation finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • Paying for Paris
Climate finance can help address climate impacts in places such as Senegal.
  • COP23
  • climate finance
  • adaptation finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • Paying for Paris
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6 Environment and Development Stories to Watch in 2017

  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • food security
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
Andrew Steer
  • Climate
  • Energy
  • Food
  • Cities
  • Business
  • Climate-Friendly Diets
  • stories to watch
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • fossil fuels
  • climate change
  • energy efficiency
  • food security
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
  • transportation
  • UNFCCC
  • U.S. policy
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How Can Developing Nations Access Climate Finance? Senegal and Kenya Share Lessons

  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • Paying for Paris
Senegalese and Kenyan leaders meeting
  • Climate
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • Paying for Paris

3 Climate and Energy Issues to Watch During the Modi-Obama State Visit

  • Climate
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy
Barack Obama and Narendra Modi
  • Climate
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • climate finance
  • climate change
  • GHG emissions
  • international climate policy
  • renewable energy

Microsoft and Local Utility Partner to Green Virginia’s Grid

  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy
Potomac River power plant
  • Energy
  • Business
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • electric grid
  • renewable energy

How Uruguay Became a Wind Power Powerhouse

  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy
Sierra de los Caracoles wind farm in Uruguay.
  • climate finance
  • Green Climate Fund
  • low carbon development
  • renewable energy