Biden's climate summit brings some ambition boost but no true U.S. climate leadership Analysis With the two-day Biden leaders' summit on climate attended by 40 countries, the United States has returned to the international stage of climate diplomacy. Whether the increased ambition of new climate action pledges via video made by several core countries can be implemented in a binding manner, however, remains an open question - not only, but also including in the United States. An urgently needed signal that the Biden administration is prepared to take on a leadership role in international climate finance in the run-up to COP 26, however, was missing in action. By Liane Schalatek
Green Climate Fund 2.0 – Moving to the Next Phase 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. By Liane Schalatek
Why the Green Climate Fund must be replenished to remain the central multilateral channel for the collective climate finance goal Article Have developed countries kept their word regarding international climate finance? By Liane Schalatek
Rising Public Climate Finance Flows Only Tell Part of the Story Commentary In order to tell the real story of public climate finance flows more details than just the quantity of finance is needed. Normative and qualitative criteria are necessary to complete the picture. By Liane Schalatek
“We will not drown, we are here to fight”: An assessment of the Fiji COP 23 in Bonn In depth analysis COP 23 was one COP in two zones: The Bula zone was the site of the official negotiations - with little relevance to what happens in the real world. The Bonn zone hosted dozens of civil society kiosks and hundreds of events searching for real solutions. By Liane Schalatek, Lili Fuhr and Don Lehr
In Bonn & Beyond, Gender-Responsive Climate Finance Is More Than Numbers Commentary What does a normative framing and a push for the gender-responsiveness of climate finance mean for the global climate finance architecture and the Green Climate Fund? A set of four new information briefs as part of an annual update of the Climate Finance Fundamentals (CFF) briefing series explores this relationship. By Liane Schalatek
Morocco Must Breathe Life into the Paris Agreement At the UN climate summit in Morocco from November 7 - 18 (COP 22), the global climate community aims to breathe life into the Paris Agreement. However, the real discussion about the most contentious points, including finance and what to do with loss & damage, begins only now in earnest. By Liane Schalatek, Lili Fuhr and Simon Ilse
The gender approach of the Green Climate Fund (GCF): leading the way for climate finance Interview with hbs' Liane Schalatek By Liane Schalatek
