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30 Nov 18
G20 leaders must shift their investments to more low-carbon, climate-resilient infrastructure to limit the impact of climate change, global organisations have warned.
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28 Nov 18
Climate change could cost the US hundreds of billions of dollars a year by the end of the century if the current administration does not change its policies, a government report has warned.
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21 Nov 18
European Union flood-related actions suffer because of “weaknesses” in allocating money to match member states’ risk management plans, auditors have warned.
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30 Oct 18
The European Commission has announced €300m of EU-funded projects to make the oceans cleaner and safer.
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10 Oct 18
The European bloc should “climate proof” the whole of the next EU budget, cutting out all projects that are not in line with the Paris Agreement, an open letter to ministers on an EU council has...
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27 Jun 18
The World Bank has approved $30m to help Grenada strengthen climate resilience and support its transition to a ‘blue economy’, focused on conserving marine resources.
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19 Jun 18
The UK should give at least £1bn a year to global nature conservation through its international aid budget, a joint report has urged.
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13 Jun 18
Climate financing by the world’s biggest multilateral development banks has hit a seven-year high of $35.2bn in 2017.
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31 May 18
The international tax system is “fundamentally flawed” and countries must work together to fix it, the French president warned yesterday.
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29 May 18
New Zealand will transform the way its public sector works together when it brings in the world’s first ‘wellbeing budget’, a Treasury official has told PF International.
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25 May 18
The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development will share its climate-related financial information in its investments for the first time this year.
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9 May 18
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is providing financing to build the largest solar plant in Mongolia.
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8 May 18
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development lags behind its counterparts and the private sector in moving away from funding fossil fuels, says think-tank E3G’s Helena Wright.
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17 Apr 18
The UK government has pledged £23.5m to help Asian regions better forecast natural disasters, the Department for International Development announced yesterday.
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22 Jan 18
The United Nations is seeking $1.6bn to protect millions of people in Somalia from drought, conflict and displacement.
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13 Dec 17
Leaders in the Caribbean plan to launch a new public-private partnership to create the world’s first ‘climate-smart zone’, following the hurricanes that swooped across the islands...
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17 Oct 17
Financing to mitigate the effects of climate change in the Pacific will more than double to over $500m between 2017 and 2020, the Asian Development Bank has said.
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29 Sep 17
Governments in Europe and the EU continue to subsidise and finance fossil fuels, such as oil, gas and coal, despite their commitment to climate change and the Paris Agreement, the Overseas...
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14 Sep 17
The world’s six largest multilateral development banks increased their climate financing in developing countries to $27.4bn in 2016, up from $25bn the year before.
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14 Sep 17
Europe will lead the fight against climate change as the economy ‘finally bounces back’, European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has said.
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21 Aug 17
Sri Lanka would be able to meet its current and future electricity demand by use of renewable energy by 2050, according to a joint study by the UN Development Programme and Asian Development Bank.
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19 Jul 17
Mineral-rich countries in South America, Africa and Asia have an opportunity to prosper from the ongoing boom in low-carbon energy technologies, a World Bank study has found.
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7 Jul 17
G20 governments are giving nearly four times more public finance to fossil fuels than green energy, according to campaigners.
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2 Jun 17
Leaders from around the world have roundly condemned US president Donald Trump’s decision to pull one of the world's biggest emitters of greenhouse gases out of a landmark global agreement to curb...
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30 May 17
US president Donald Trump has steered away from commitments on limiting climate change reaffirmed over the weekend by other wealthy economies.