Women-led and women’s rights organizations are on the frontlines of today’s humanitarian crises—but many are at risk of disappearing. As global needs rise due to conflict, climate change, and displacement, deep cuts to foreign aid are threatening organizations that provide life-saving services for women and girls. In March 2025, UN …
In a tug-of-war between rich and poor nations, the United climate change summit at Lima has turned out a “lacklustre plan with little scientific relevancy”, said WWF climate expert Samantha Smith on the deal struck on Sunday. The hard-fought agreement sets out guidelines for the submission of national greenhouse-gas pledges …
This first UNEP Adaptation Gap Report provides a framework for defining adaptation gaps and a preliminary assessment of the gap between adaptation needs and reality. It proposes an approach for identifying and assessing the current state and action in key adaptation areas, and comparing these with the potential now, and …
International efforts to tackle climate change are at a critical juncture. At the end of 2015 governments will gather at the Paris climate summit to frame a new international agreement aimed at preventing ‘dangerous climate change’. Achieving that goal requires a high level of ambition backed by practical policy commitments. …
In India, institutional arrangements around climate finance have mostly followed national policy responses to climate change. This paper maps the emergence of climate change policy in India and subsequently traces the evolution of arrangements around climate finance. An early assessment of the climate finance landscape in India suggests that it …
The negotiating platforms at Peru: Different bodies are mandated to negotiate for different elements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
The government allocated around Tk774 crore in the budget for FY 2012-13 for different adaptation programmes being implemented by different ministries. The government has been taking preparation to apply for the financial support from the UN’s Green Climate Fund (GCF) for the past one year in order to build the …
This paper explores the possible role of the 2015 agreement in promoting further mobilisation of climate finance for developing countries in the post-2020 period. Any finance related provisions in the new agreement therefore need to facilitate such a mobilisation, and also need to be dynamic enough to reflect the evolving …
This technical paper provides background information on the second review of the Adaptation Fund based on the terms of reference for the second review as annexed to decision 2/CMP.9, taking into account the deliberations and conclusions of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation at its fortieth session.
France promised $1bn to a near-empty climate change fund for poor countries on Tuesday and called for the establishment of a new green economy in the first concrete result of a milestone United Nations summit. The pledge came on a day of impassioned speeches from some 120 presidents and prime …
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday a new global agreement on climate change must include strong commitments from emerging economies and move past the rich-poor country divide that has hampered progress in United Nations negotiations. Obama addressed the U.N. climate change summit with a statement meant to build political …
German Chancellor Angela Merkel promised 750 million euros ($1 billion) to the United Nations Green Climate Fund, the first major pledge it has received. The fund, designed to channel climate aid to poor nations, has so far only had seed capital to help set itself up. In May, it opened …
Aid group Oxfam has called on other rich nations to follow the example of Germany, which has promised €750m ($1bn) for the UN's fledgling Green Climate Fund. "This announcement ends the deafening silence we've had so far around the empty Green Climate Fund that is supposed to support poor countries …
With the Modi government determined to step up growth while simultaneously taking up environmental protection, finance minister Arun Jaitley proposed to set up a 'National Adaptation Fund' for climate change, with an initial amount of Rs 100 crore. The fund will focus on innovative methods of water conservation, use of …
Union finance minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday gave a fresh push for creating a national market for agricultural produce and planned reforms in food grain management through “restructuring” the FCI. In his Budget speech, he announced setting up of two centres of excellence in agricultural research (Assam and Jharkhand), two …
Mr Jaitley has fallen into the old trap of financing meaningless cleaning initiatives Listening to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Union Budget 2014 seemed to be a little bit of everything and lots of nothing. It is also difficult to pass a verdict on a government that has had barely 45 …
The Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) on Wednesday suggested forming a high-level commission to bring transparency and establish good governance in the country’s climate financing. The anti-graft body came up with the suggestion at a discussion titled, ‘Good Governance in Climate Financing of Bangladesh: Institutional and Practical Advancement, Challenges and Potential’ …
A U.N. fund to help developing nations fight global warming is on track to start raising cash in November, with poor nations seeking $15 billion, officials said on Wednesday. "Now it's time to mobilise money," Hela Cheikhrouhou, executive director of the Green Climate Fund, told Reuters after two days of …
Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has urged the government to provide budgetary allocation for climate change adaptation in fiscal 2014-15 to facilitate the efforts to cope with the adverse impacts of global warming. In a statement on Monday, TIB executive director Dr Iftekharuzzaman said the government has set an example at …
Nepal is developing a plan to receive results-based payment through the Carbon Fund for emission reduction over a five-year period from 2015 to 2020. Nepal is receiving the fund after its Emission Reductions Project Idea Note (ER-PIN) was approved at the Carbon Fund’s Ninth Meeting (CF9) organized by the Forest …
Greenhouse gas levels in atmosphere have reached the highest point in 800‚000 years KATHMANDU: The ‘Eighth International Conference on Community-Based Adaptation’ concluded yesterday with the Kathmandu Declaration. According to the organisers, the declaration states that there is a need to raise global fund on climate change. “At least 50 per …
