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Blog Post
November 13, 2023
The creation of a “forest carbon economy,” where countries reap the economic benefit of the emission reduction contributions of their forests, is increasingly seen as an important source of income for countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia-Pacific. Brazil’s President Lula is promoting the cre...
POLICY PAPERS
November 01, 2023
Central to implementation of the Paris Agreement are questions of “fair shares”: who might contribute what and whether the group of contributors should be expanded. There is a case for nontraditional donors providing 20-30 percent of any total, while developed countries continue to take primary resp...
Blog Post
November 01, 2023
With just a month to go before COP28, the question of climate finance is threatening to derail the negotiations. Failure to deliver on past promises have damaged trust, and current discussions around both the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) and especially the promised Loss and Damage (L&D) Fun...
Blog Post
October 31, 2023
The World Bank is the largest provider of climate adaptation finance to the world’s poorest countries. Adaptation finance assists countries to reduce the risks they face from climate change such as disease outbreak and rising sea levels. Lower-income countries (LICs) receive highly concessional fina...