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

Christoph Hoffmann

Policy Advisor – Sustainable Finance

Nouhaila Zaki

Policy Advisor - International Taxation for Climate Action

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Banks to the left, trees to the right

Climate finance Sustainable Finance Blogpost | 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.

Hafenkräne im Halbdunkeln

Climate finance Global trade Blogpost | 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 Blogpost | 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.

Front page of the policy brief

Climate finance | 07.11.2024

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 | 31.10.2024

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 finance | 04.10.2024

The Environmental Toll of Tax Dodging by the Ultra-Wealthy

Discover how Germany’s ultra-wealthy pay far less in taxes than middle-class families and how this imbalance fuels carbon emissions and environmental harm. Our latest factsheet uncovers billionaires’ tax avoidance strategies, the environmental toll of their wealth accumulation, and an international proposal for a billionaires tax to advance social and climate justice. Dive in to learn what’s at stake and how fairer taxation can drive sustainable change.

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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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