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Deckblatt: Green Climate Fund

Sustainable Finance Briefing Paper 1. March 2013

Green Climate Fund 3

The third meeting of the Green Climate Fund Board is scheduled for the 12th to the 15th of March 2013 (in Berlin) and represents a critical juncture for the work of the GCF Board. The discussions on the core modalities to operationalize its objectives, also subsumed under the term "Business Model Framework", will be at the centre of the...

Deckblatt: Standing Committee on Finance #3

Climate finance Briefing Paper 1. March 2013

Standing Committee on Finance #3

The third meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) took place in Bonn from the 8th to the 10th March 2013. The SCF has been established by the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC to assist the Conference of Parties (COP) in exercising its functions with respect to the financial mechanism of the Convention. Certain outcomes...

Climate finance Report 1. March 2013

Germanwatch Adaptation Committee Report

The Adaptation Committee (AC) under the UNFCCC met for the second time from 5th to 8th of March in Bonn. The Committee, founded as part of the Cancun Adaptation Framework by the climate summit in 2010, is the world primary body to...

Deckblatt: Adaptation Committee #2

Climate finance Briefing Paper 1. March 2013

Adaptation Committee #2

The second meeting of the Adaptation Committee represents a critical juncture for its work. The AC – the UNFCCC’s primary advisory body on matters related to adaptation – will have a head start to implement its recently endorsed 3 years work plan...

Cover Springtime

International climate co-operation Briefing Paper 1. March 2013

It's Springtime in the Desert

This paper provides an overview of discussions on how to safeguard the sustainable implementation of the DESERTEC concept through the application of a sustainability framework.