“Glass less than half full” – Glasgow climate finance outcomes leave much room for improvements despite some wins Article Progress on core climate finance issues at COP26 proved to be key to break deadlocks and to reach often inadequate compromises in the Glasgow Climate Pact. By Liane Schalatek
Broken Promises - Developed countries fail to keep their 100 billion dollar climate pledge Analysis At COP26 in Glasgow, past failures and shortcomings in climate finance mobilization and delivery must be ruthlessly addressed by presenting an implementation plan for future improvements. By Liane Schalatek
A Process on the Brink of Collapse Confronts a World on the Move Analysis The governments gathered in Madrid failed to embrace the urgent need for progress towards climate justice and higher ambitions. By Sebastien Duyck and Erika Lennon
Social unrest in Chile and its effects on the climate agenda and COP25 Analysis 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. By Javiera Valencia
While Failing to Gain Much Ground at COP 24, Finance for “Loss and Damage” Could Advance in 2019 Commentary Developing countries achieved some small wins for loss and damage at COP24 in Katowice, but 2019 is when real advances on financing for loss and damage could be made. By Julie-Anne Richards
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
What's at stake for COP 24? Briefing The Katowice UN Climate Change Conference will take place in Katowice from the 3rd till the 14th of December 2018. By Don Lehr
“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
“We’ll always have Paris” At the UN’s COP 22 climate conference in Marrakech, the international community closed ranks despite (or perhaps because of?) the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president. By Lili Fuhr , Liane Schalatek and Simon Ilse
