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Climate finance Briefing Paper | 1. April 2013

Reaching the financial bottleneck

The Adaptation Fund (AF) was established under the Kyoto Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in order to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries affected by the global climate change. This report summarizes the key decisions taken during the 20th meeting (April 4-5, 2013) of the Adaptation Fund Board (AFB).

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Report | 1. April 2013

Report on the international Conference "Dialogue on Transformation"

The Dialogue on Transformation Conference highlighted multiple strategic approaches including grassroots, international, regional and national perspectives to engage with policy processes and build momentum for the needed transformation towards a just society characterised by access to sustainable energy and the right to food in the context of planetary boundaries.

German climate policy and energy transition Corporate Accountability Position Paper | 1. April 2013

Business and Human Rights

Within the framework of the CorA-Netzwerk für Unternehmensverantwortung (CorA Network for Corporate Accountability) and the Forum Menschenrechte (German Human Rights Forum) Germanwatch together with 28 organisations drafted their expectations from the German Government and the German Bundestag to elaborate an Action Plan for Business and Human Rights.

EU climate policy and carbon pricing Summary | 1. April 2013

How do EU companies react to the EU ETS?

This compilation of survey results shows how much companies involved in the EU emissions trading system (EU ETS) expect the EU to reform the ailing carbon market – by implementing the backloading proposal of the European Commission as a first step. Respondents are confident that the EU will adopt a 30% emissions reduction target for 2020 as a corner stone of further ETS reform.

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International climate co-operation Report | 1. April 2013

Energy Transition in a Changing Arab World?

This paper is based on the inputs given by different civil society actors during the workshop “Energy transition in a changing Arab World? Discussing human development requirements for future large scale RE projects in the MENA region” at the World Social Forum in Tunis in 2013. Based on the questions that arose during the workshop it must be stated, that low levels of civil society participation, information and transparency within the realization and communication of Desertec are still causing many question marks, concerns and doubts among the civil society in the Southern Mediterranean.

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Climate finance Study | 1. November 2012

Independent insights from vulnerable developing countries

This publication summarises the state of play in the Adaptation Fund and the key experiences of members of the Adaptation Fund NGO Network, at international policy level as well as within developing countries.

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...

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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.

Climate finance Report | 1. March 2013

Report of the third meeting of the Standing Commitee on Finance

The third meeting of the Standing Committee on Finance (SCF) took place in Bonn from the 8th to the 10th March 2013.

Sino-European Partnership on Low Carbon and Sustainable Urban Development

Report | 12.02.2013

Sino-European Partnership on Low Carbon and Sustainable Urban Development

The “Sino-European Partnership on Low Carbon and Sustainable Urban Development” aims at fostering the cooperation in the field of climate change and low carbon urban development between

Climate finance Report | 1. April 2013

Report on the 19th Meeting of Adaptation Fund

The Adaptation Fund (AF) was established under the Kyoto Protocol of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in order to finance concrete adaptation projects and programmes in developing countries affected by the global climate change. This report summarises the key decisions taken during the 19th meeting (December 11 to 14) of the Adaptation Fund Board.

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Report | 07.02.2013

Investment Security for Ambitious EU Climate Targets: Repairing the Emissions Trading Scheme

Today, Germanwatch and six big German and European companies published a declaration in which they call on the German government to support the quick and long-term fix of the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS). The declaration, signed by Alstom, EnBW, E.ON, Otto, Puma, Shell, and Germanwatch, demands to enhance security for low-carbon investments done and planned. Low prices for CO2 are like posion for them. They therefore urge the German government to act.

Report | 17.12.2012

International Master Study Programme Global Change Management (M.Sc.)

Students who graduated or will graduate in summer 2013 as (at least) a Bachelor may apply at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Germany, to be one of the 25 participants admitted for the two‐year study programme Global Change Management (M.Sc.). Classes will begin in September 2013. The mission of GCM is to educate specialists who are able to cope with challenges of natural resource management under global change in an adaptive, proactive and precautionary manner.

Press Coverage Climate Change Performance Index 2013

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This list contains a selection of online articles from around the world available shortly after the release of the Climate Change Performance Index 2013.

Global Climate Risk Index 2013

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The press list contains a selection of online articles from around the world available shortly after the release of the Global Climate Risk Index. They may be outdated after a few weeks or months.

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UN climate conferences International climate co-operation Indices | 1. December 2012

The Climate Change Performance Index 2013

The Climate Change Performance Index is an instrument supposed to enhance transparency in international climate politics. On the basis of standardised criteria, the index evaluates and compares the climate protection performance of 58 countries that are, together, responsible for more than 90 percent of global energy-related CO2 emissions.

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UN climate conferences Press Release | 03.12.2012

High Emissions - Low Ambitions

In a time of heavily increasing greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel investments, the light at the end of the tunnel cannot yet be seen. The eighth annual Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI), which was published at the Doha climate talks today by Germanwatch and the Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, ranks the climate protection performance of the 58 highest emitters worldwide. For the first time, the index used deforestation data, which resulted in a rankings drop of countries with high forest emissions such as Brazil and Indonesia. Once again, no country made it into the first three spots on the list due to a lack of ambition to reach the goal of keeping global warming below 2 degree Celsius.