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
“Back to the Future” for GCF After Recent Bahrain Board Meeting Commentary It’s “back to the future” for the Green Climate Fund after its most recent board meeting in Bahrain. After the July disastrous meeting, this outcome sends a reassuring signal that the GCF can deliver on its core functions before COP 24. 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
Signal effect for global climate finance Analysis The Green Climate Fund is important for implementing the Paris Agreement and for setting important standards for global climate finance. The financial viability of the fund, however, is by no means guaranteed. By Liane Schalatek
The gender approach of the Green Climate Fund (GCF): leading the way for climate finance Interview with hbs' Liane Schalatek By Liane Schalatek
The 13th GCF Board Meeting – Closing Policy Gaps to Ramp Up Finance Delivery When the Board meets from June 28-30 in Songdo, South Korea for its 13th Board meeting, the 24-member body will focus on working towards closing Fund structural and policy gaps in order to ramp up finance delivery to developing countries. But don’t expect quick one-step fixes. By Liane Schalatek
Fact Sheets for Civil Society on the Green Climate Fund What is the Green Climate Fund? Is it gender-responsive? Will communities profit directly from its funding? How will civil society groups find out if the GCF is funding a project in their country or community? These are some of the questions that this set of five easy-to-read fact sheets answers in straightforward understandable language. By Liane Schalatek
10 things to know about climate finance in 2015 These graphics highlight the ten most noteworthy insights from joint effort by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI) over the past year from monitoring climate finance on Climate Funds Update (CFU).
