Climate finance

The industrialized countries pledged in the "Copenhagen Accord" to finance measures for emission reduction, rainforest protection, and climate change adaptation in developing and emerging countries. By 2020, funding was expected to increase to $100 billion annually. We advocate for Germany to contribute its fair share - within the framework of a coherent climate finance strategy.

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Julia Grimm

Senior Advisor – Climate Finance and Adaptation

David Eckstein

Senior Advisor – Climate Finance and Investments

Dr. Anja Carolin Gebel

Policy Advisor – Development Banks and Climate

Nouhaila Zaki

Policy Advisor – International Taxation for Climate Action

News

Banks to the left, trees to the right

Climate finance Sustainable Finance Blog post | 07.11.2024

Assessing projects’ Paris alignment

In 2023, six multilateral development banks have reached their self-imposed deadlines for the alignment of their projects with the Paris Agreement. We have analysed 60 of their projects and present the somewhat sobering findings in our blog post – with recommendations for greater transparency.

Report | 23.05.2024

Terms of Reference: Consultancy on Revising the Climate Risk Index Methodology

The Climate Risk Index (CRI) is a pivotal tool designed to assess and compare the risk of countries being impacted by climate change events, particularly extreme weather events. The CRI is one of the longest run climate impact related indices with annual editions. It helps to raise awareness of growing climate related loss events worldwide, inciting necessary climate policy discussions on climate change adaptation, disaster preparedness, risk reduction and addressing loss and damage.

Hafenkräne im Halbdunkeln

Climate finance Global trade Blog post | 26.10.2023

Germany's new export credit guidelines to boost clean energy investment

Germany’s Ministry for Economic Affairs has announced new climate related sector guidelines for export credit guarantees and investment guarantees that would prevent support for almost all new fossil fuel projects from 1 November onwards. A limited number of gas projects may still receive support if they fulfil national security requirements or prove they can aid short term supply shortages, which is unlikely to be the case. Third countries are concerned about the potential drop in investment; this should be addressed by investing the billions now saved from servicing fossil fuel projects in clean energy instead.

Sign in front of the Inter-American Development Bank, BID, in Washington.

Climate finance Blog post | 12.07.2023

The IDB’s Paris Alignment approach sets out important principles but highlights concerns over timeline and rigour

In March 2023 the IDB Group published its “Paris Alignment Implementation Approach: Principles, Methodology, and Technical Guidance” (PAIA). The document is based on the joint MDB framework and lays out how the IDB plans to adapt the framework to its own institutional procedures. This blog post provides an overview on what are promising, concerning and unclear elements in the IDB Group’s general Paris alignment methodology.

Vorschaubild Diskussionspapier

Climate finance Sustainable Finance Discussion Paper | 24. January 2025

Enhanced Cooperation between MDBs and NDBs

Ongoing discussions to reform the international financial architecture across various fora are driven by a common recognition that international public financial resources are not being delivered at the scale and pace required to tackle global challe

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Climate finance Policy Brief | 21. November 2021

Effectiveness of Climate Finance

How can we ensure that financial commitments lead to transformative, measurable outcomes? This question comes into focus as the global community charts a path toward the New Collective Quantified Goal for climate finance beyond 2025. Our CFAS policy brief identifies these gaps and explores ways to improve impact measurement, including recommendations for COP29 to incorporate robust, transparent methodologies into the NCQG.

Front page of the policy brief

Climate finance Policy Brief | 7. November 2024

Towards a Political Compromise on the NCQG Contributor Base

The path towards a fair and effective New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) for climate finance has been fraught with intense global debate: Who should contribute, and how should contributions be assessed, particularly government funding? These questions have brought to the fore principles of equity and the notion of ‘common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities’ – core tenets of climate justice. With the stakes high, the NCQG’s structure will shape international climate finance and our collective response to the escalating climate crisis.l

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Climate finance Working Paper | 31. October 2024

New Climate Finance Goal meets International Financial Architecture Reform

Developing countries face an increase in financial needs to continue progressing on the SDGs, including on climate. The reform of the international financial architecture (IFA) has gained momentum over the past years in response to these growing needs as well as a shift towards an increasingly multipolar world. The surge in momentum has coincided with the negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG). In two policy briefs, we analyse how the IFA reform agenda and the NCQG are interlinked in their objectives and goals.

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Climate Litigation | 16.03.2015

Melting glaciers: Peruvian requests German utility RWE to pay for protective measures

It is the first time in Europe that one of the world’s largest polluters is prompted to pay for the safety of a person at risk of climate change consequences

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