"CMIA helped to explain the potential for project-based mechanisms across a variety of constituencies and is a key voice driving the conversation on results-based finance and sector approaches for scaling-up emission reduction investments. We urgently need input from organisations like CMIA to operationalise Art 6 of the Paris Agreement."
Mr. Franz-Josef Schafhausen, former Director General Climate Change, European and International Affairs, Federal German Ministry of the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety
23 March 2020
Replenishing and protecting the world’s soil carbon stores could help to offset up to 5.5bn tonnes of greenhouse gases every year, a study finds. This is just under the current…
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In 2014, when the price of oil last crashed, the world’s governments had no agreement in place to fight climate change. The following year leaders signed the Paris accord. Green investments…
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Final reports: EU Taxonomy and Green Bond Standards. Last week, the EU published their final reports on EU Taxonomy and EU Green Bond Standards. Download the reports here: http://bit.ly/EU_Taxon
Read More16 March 2020
Coal developers risk wasting more than $600 billion because it is already cheaper to generate electricity from new renewables than from new coal plants in all major markets. Coal has long been…
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Climate change presents many challenges for financial institutions. It poses risks that are dynamic in nature, systemic in impact, and testing on the interdependencies across the financial system. A case…
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British hedge fund billionaire Chris Hohn has launched a campaign to persuade central banks to starve hundreds of planned coal-fired power plants around the world of finance, aiming to block…
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Wall Street’s attitude toward climate change has seemed to shift in recent months, but it is far from showing it’s truly serious about sustainable investing, Hannon Armstrong CEO Jeffrey Eckel told CNBC’s Jim…
Read More09 March 2020
In their fourteenth GCF insight report, Eco Ltd explore stakeholder experiences and challenges with project financing and discuss the implications for the GCF. According to their previous report, GCF insight #13, ‘Top 5 climate finance…
Read More06 March 2020
Britain’s new COP26 president Alok Sharma has a problem over upgrading the UK’s climate plan, also known as NDC. Although that might sound like a technical issue, it’s really not;…
Read More04 March 2020
Heathrow’s third runway is no more. It’s a victory for environmental campaigners, but the decision raises some important questions. On Thursday, the UK’s Court of Appeals ruled that the government’s…
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