Climate Finance: Retreat should not spell defeat

The US President’s  withdrawal from international efforts to fight climate change casts a shadow over the future of climate finance. Some EU countries, cities and states within the US have already stepped forward, but more is needed from countries around the world to fill the gap.

Open letter to Green Climate Fund Board on keeping the fund fossil fuel free

March 2017 Dear Members and Alternate Members of the Board: We write to urge you to develop and adopt an investment policy for the treasury of the United Nations Green Climate Fund that maintains its current fossil fuel-free status and is consistent with international best practice for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) standards. To that …

European Parliament committee calls for higher ambition in EU’s carbon market reform

The first committee of the European Parliament to cast an opinion on the revision of the EU’s carbon market this week voted for more climate ambition and the establishment of an international climate action fund. A majority of members of the development committee supported an increase in the rate by which emissions are cut each …

How EU’s carbon market can scale up international climate finance – Copy

Scroll down for French and Spanish The EU can use its Emission Trading System (ETS) to provide an innovative and substantial source of international climate finance much needed in developing countries. The ongoing EU ETS revision provides a great opportunity to establish a new ETS International Climate Action Reserve, which could channel over €3 billion …

How EU’s carbon market can scale up international climate finance

Scroll down for French and Spanish The EU can use its Emission Trading System (ETS) to provide an innovative and substantial source of international climate finance much needed in developing countries. The ongoing EU ETS revision provides a great opportunity to establish a new ETS International Climate Action Reserve, which could channel over €3 billion …

Open letter to Members of the Development Committee of the European Parliament on the revision of the EU ETS

Dear Members of the European Parliament’s Development Committee, We, the undersigned, representing 60 networks and organizations from 23 countries, call on you to adopt an ambitious opinion on the revision of the European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS), that will reflect the importance of taking into account the perspective of most vulnerable countries to …

Civil society workshop on climate finance developments

10 May 2016, 10.00-16.45 (CET), Mundo B, Fair Trade Room, Brussels AGENDA  9.30-10.00: Arrival, coffee & tea 10.00 -13.00: Session 1: Experience with low-carbon funding in the EU Moderator: Femke De Jong, Carbon Market Watch Introduction: Towards quality and accountable climate finance Urska Trunk, Carbon Market Watch: Fossil fuel subsidies through Europe’s carbon market: experience …

Stakeholder comments regarding ongoing human rights concerns associated with the Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Power Plant Project (CDM Project #3237)

24 April 2016 Dear Mr Buendia, Dear Mr Wolke, We, the April 10 Movement for the Defense of the Tabasará River (M-10), Alianza para la Conservación y el Desarrollo (ACD) and Asociación Ambientalista de Chiriqui (ASAMCHI), are writing to provide stakeholder comments regarding the ongoing human rights concerns associated with the Barro Blanco Hydroelectric Power Plant …