Climate & Environmental Policy

This series of 12 short introductory briefings looks at various aspects of climate change financing drawing on data from www.climatefundsupdate.org, the tracking project of the Overseas Development Institute and the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC, focusing on dedicated public climate financing instruments from pledge to project.

Each year, the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Washington, DC, sponsors a select number of journalists from the US, Canada, and Germany for an independent, transatlantic trip to research stories relevant to the foundation’s work on climate and energy policy, democracy and social policy, foreign and security policy, or technology and digital policy.

The governments gathered in Madrid failed to embrace the urgent need for progress towards climate justice and higher ambitions.

Turning ancient forests into wood pellets is putting the country’s tourism and climate commitments at risk.

Hosting COP 25 in Chile would have been an excellent chance to visualize the continent’s environmental problems and improve the space for negotiations. Now, Latin American civil society is making an effort to make their voices heard in Madrid.

When climate negotiators come together for COP 25 in Madrid from December 2- 13, the year 2020 looms large. It is in many ways a fateful year, both for the Paris Agreement and for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) serving as the main multilateral financing mechanism for its implementation.