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Climate Finance

World Bank Hosts Global Dialogue on Financing Climate Action

July 26, 2011

The World Bank Institute (WBI) recently hosted a global dialogue on climate finance that brought together experts and practitioners from both developed and developing countries. The purpose of the dialogue was to explore different mechanisms for tracking, leveraging and directing international climate finance. As highlighted in the summary report, “the discussion focused on the financing [...]

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State of the Market Reports Released at Carbon Expo

June 5, 2011

Policy makers, regulators, participants, and observers of the global carbon market gathered in Barcelona, Spain this past week for Carbon Expo 2011. This 8th annual trade fair and conference organized by the World Bank Carbon Finance Unit and International Emissions Trading Association is the largest gathering of stakeholders in the world of climate and carbon [...]

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Green Investment Bank to Finance Low Carbon Economy in UK

May 27, 2011

Climate Change Capital and Nortan Rose Group recently hosted Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nick Clegg MP, and Director-General of CBI, John Cridland, for an event focused on Green Growth. This was a monumental gathering as the Deputy Prime Minister laid out details for how the U.K. government would quickly create an effective and [...]

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Barclays Shows ‘Green Bonds’ Are Key Source of Carbon Capital

February 14, 2011

Barclays, in conjunction with Accenture, earlier this month released a significant and timely report entitled Carbon Capital: Financing the Low Carbon Economy. This publication outlines the various sources of financing that are necessary to scale up the development and procurement of low carbon technology (LCT) key to mitigate global climate change. The findings of the report are [...]

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Lead U.S. Climate Negotiator Debriefs Public on Global Talks

December 24, 2010

Fresh off the latest UN global climate talks in Cancun, U.S. Climate Envoy Todd Stern sat down at the Department of State in Washington D.C. for a debriefing. In this interview with Tyler Suiters from EnergyNOW!, Stern discusses progress made at negotiations, the state of climate policy and the challenges in working with emerging nations [...]

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Norton Rose Hosts Climate Change Negotiations Webinar

November 26, 2010

Norton Rose Group hosted a very informative webinar this past week outlining the negotiating process and key issues up for consideration at this year’s United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties 16 (COP16) beginning on November 29th in Cancun, Mexico. Their presentation covers both procedural and substantive issues that will be dealt [...]

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Major Global Investors Demand Climate Action in Cancun

November 18, 2010

The world’s largest global investors released a statement this past week calling on the United States and the international community to come together to take action on global climate change at the COP16 in Cancun starting on November 29th. Lead by organizations such as the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGC) and the Investor Group [...]

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Climate Finance Report Released By UN Advisory Group

November 8, 2010

The United Nations High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) issued its final report outlining a suggested path to achieve the goal of providing $100 billion per year to developing countries by 2020. This target of climate finance was set out at the UNFCCC Conference of Parties 15 (COP15) in Copenhagen last December. The [...]

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