Climate Policy & Finance

To understand the importance of the U.S. EPA’s proposed regulations on carbon pollution, consider the political risk taken by Obama, its international leverage, and the implications for U.S. industry.

A panel discussion during the 58th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York focused on ways in which to integrate gender equality, specifically examining care economy considerations and climate change as cross-cutting issues into post-2015 sustainable development approaches.

New hopes for a legally binding global climate regime were dimmed when the recent UN climate conference in Warsaw, the COP with the lowest expectations ever, lived up to it in every respect. A post-Warsaw analysis

hbs North America has accompanied the process for the operationalization of the GCF from its very beginning, including in the design phase of the Transitional Committee, with analysis and reports for each meeting.

A new website, climatemarkets.org, a collaborative project of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America, is now online. It offers as a platform for climate activists and advocates who are interested in gaining a better understanding of the current debates about the roles of public institutions and the private sector in energy and climate-related finance, and their intersection.

The world needs to overcome a triple crisis. These crises are interwoven and cannot be addressed in isolation.

hbs Washington, DC and other civil society organizations have been active in shaping the GCF's operations, striving for fair, gender-equitable and transformational outcomes. Read CSO submissions to the GCF and CSO public advocacy calls here.