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 …
This paper provides an overview of the concept of direct access to funding for climate change actions in developing countries. It focuses on the institutional arrangements that are necessary to facilitate and support direct access and is intended to inform the current and future discussions on direct access modalities, including …
A new institutional architecture is emerging for climate change adaptation finance, with the UNFCCC Adaptation Fund now operational and dialogue underway on post-2012 arrangements. Some donor countries have also begun to channel official development assistance (ODA) through designated adaptation funds. This paper examines how adaptation finance is being institutionalised, and …
This study shows that the biggest climate offenders are in fact the richest countries in the world, while low and middle income countries suffer from the effects. With the failure of climate talks at Cancun, the role of the World Bank as manager of funds for climate change adaptation and …
A U.N. committee has completed the draft design of a fund to help developing countries tackle climate change, paving the way for its launch in 2013, the U.N.'s climate chief said on Friday. Last year, countries agreed to create the 'Green Climate Fund' to channel up to $100 billion a …
The U.S. would not consider a climate deal "genuinely binding" if it excludes the biggest emerging economies or if those countries' commitments were conditional upon financial support from developed countries, the lead U.S. climate negotiator said Monday. Todd Stern, U.S. special climate change envoy, said certain developing countries are seeking …
Bangladesh demanded a direct access to Global Climate Fund which ensures decentralised decision making at the national level for effective and efficient resource management. The demand made by Bangladesh delegation at a meeting on ‘transitional committee on designing green climate funds’ that concluded on Tuesday in Geneva, professor Dr Ansarul …
A record rise in global greenhouse emissions and ever tighter economic constraints make it crucial for United Nations climate talks in South Africa in November to overcome years of deadlock and deliver a solution, the U.N.'s climate chief told Reuters. Nearly two decades of U.N. climate change negotiations have so …
The UNDP has launched report that provides a step-by-step guide to developing countries in setting up national climate funds and in making informed decisions on climate financing options. This guidebook is based on UNDP’s experience with 750 funds comprising over US$5 billion in resources from various donors. The guide aims …
As the international community mobilizes in response to global climatic changes, climate funds must ensure the equitable and effective allocation of funds for the world’s most vulnerable populations. Women and girls, disproportionately vulnerable to negative climate change impacts in developing countries, have largely been excluded from climate change finance policies …
The Euro zone debt crisis and recessionary fears in the US may prove to be a threat to the global climate change agenda. Experts feel that developed nations may not be able to keep up their commitment of financing the climate change mitigation initiatives of developing countries. “With the developed …
Campaign for Sustainable Livelihood (CSRL) and Equity and Justice Working Group Bangladesh (EquityBD), the two networks of right -based civil society organisations, yesterday demanded ensuring transparency of climate resilience or donor fund to ensure credibility. Addressing a press conference held at Dhaka Reporters' Unity (DRU), the leaders of the CSRL …
President Zillur Rahman has sought more British assistance in facing the impacts of the climate change in Bangladesh, one of the most vulnerable nations to the global warming. The President sought the cooperation when outgoing British High Commissioner Stephen Evans paid a farewell call on him at Bangabhaban Sunday. Evans …
The UK has assured Bangladesh of increasing its contribution to climate change resilience fund to 150 million pounds from the current 75 million pounds. Alan Duncan, UK minister of state for international development, gave the assurance in a meeting with State Minister for Environment and Forests Hasan Mahmud at his …
This report presents a strategy for scaling adaptation to climate change impacts within urban areas. It approaches the adaptation challenge within the overall context of other pressing risks and development challenges confronting the world’s urban regions. The strategy specifi cally focuses on the requirements for mobilizing large amounts of capital …
The Governing Council of Bangladesh Climate Resilience Fund has approved a $25 million project, the first from the Fund, for strengthening capability to face adverse impacts of climate change. The state minister for environment and forests, Hasan Mahmud, disclosed this after the first meeting of BCCRF Governing Council at a …
Bangladesh and Sweden have been nominated co-chairs of the Green Climate Fund monitoring and evaluation workstream. Both Bangladesh and Sweden were nominated co-chairs of the fund at the first meeting of the transitional committee meeting of the GCF held in Mexico City on April 28-29, an official release said here …
Rich countries have missed a U.N. deadline for outlining aid to help developing nations combat climate change. Among industrialized nations, only Russia and Ukraine sent letters to the United Nations by the May 1 deadline -- only to say they did not feel obliged to contribute under a deal to …
Australian government will give Bangladesh US$ 16 million to address the impacts of climate change. Australian Minister for Climate Change Greg Combet said this during a bilateral meeting with State Minister for Environment and Forests Dr Hasan Mahmud in Canberra on Tuesday, an official handout said here on Wednesday. Dr …
The recent climate change adaptation efforts in Nepal will not achieve significant results in delivering timely support to vulnerable communities unless the government makes vigorous efforts to implement National Adaptation Programme of Action (NAPA), warns a new Oxfam report. The report that deals with the governance of climate change adaptation …
In the backdrop of delay in releasing the First Start Fund under UN framework, Bangladesh has sought accelerated bilateral support from developed countries and donor agencies to address climate change vulnerability. The state minister for environment and forests, Hasan Mahmud, Sunday held a luncheon meeting with diplomats of the developed …
