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• Dirty deals flag need for climate finance rules
  on Dec 10, 2014 in climate finance COP20 GCF Japan USA
  If you stick a dollar bill under a microscope it is full of dirt. It turns out something similar is true of climate finance - the billions of dollars developed countries pay to help developing countries cope with the effects of climate change and...
• Rich Countries Pony Up (Some) for Climate Justice
  on Nov 26, 2014 in climate finance GCF
  It’s one of the oldest tricks in politics: Talk down expectations to the point that you can meet them.And it played out again in Berlin as 21 countries—including the United States—pledged nearly 9.5 billion dollars to the Green...
• Passing the bucks: the Green Climate Fund, country ownership and the role of international financial institutions
  on Jul 29, 2014
  What role will international financial institutions like the World Bank play in channelling the resources of the UN’s Green Climate Fund? And what does that mean for the concept of “country ownership”? This is the second of a series of thre...
• IPCC on mitigation: A roadmap to survival
  on Apr 21, 2014 in IPCC
  Greenhouse gas emissions are rising, and our addiction to fossil fuels is to blame. That, in a nutshell, is the conclusion of an authoritative new UN report published on April 13th. Emissions have not only continued to increase, but have done so mo...
• EU climate plans lack ambition... what could be done instead of carbon trading?
  on Apr 21, 2014 in 2030 EU ETS
  Followers of climate change policy are used to getting their disappointment early. With the launch of the EU’s 2030 climate and energy plan, the European Commission offered several years’ worth of let-downs in one handy package. This article f...
• Recent articles on the UN’s Green Climate Fund
  on Apr 21, 2014 in adaptation GCF
  In advance of its Bali Board meeting in February, I published a summary of 7 things to look out for in the UN's Green Climate Fund. The issues in question are: Is the GCF a Fund or a Bank? Will the GCF fund fossil fuel infrastructure? Whatever happen...
• Songdo Fallout: Is Green Finance a Red Herring?
  on Jul 17, 2013 in climate finance private sector facility GCF
  With the latest Green Climate Fund talks in Songdo, wealthy countries have taken another step toward financializing the world's response to climate change.From the 29th floor of Songdo, South Korea’s jagged “G-Tower,” one can glimpse the end...
• Climate Change PLC
  on Jul 16, 2013 in Tullow UK oil Finance City of London
  This article was written for the Morning Star as part of the launch of WDM's Carbon Capital campaignFrom offshore drilling to gas fracking, it's boom time for fossil fuels - and the City of London is at the heart of it. Oil exploration and producti...
• City of London and Climate Change
  on Jul 16, 2013 in UK oil Finance City of London coal gas
  I've written a new booklet for the World Development Movement looking at how the City of London organises the fossil fuel investments for destructive fossil fuel projects that are leading to runaway climate change, and asks what we can do to stop it.
• Climate markets
  on Jul 16, 2013 in IPS Climate markets World Bank
  At the Institute for Policy Studies, we've set up a new website on Climate Finance and Markets (climatemarkets.org) to help climate activists and advocates understand financial markets, as well as monitoring the Wall Street-friendly solutions curren...

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