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Rwanda Green Fund Investments Paying Big Dividends

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

Issuing its ninth request for proposals this week, Rwanda’s Green Fund, FONERWA continues to empower Rwandans, funding and assisting stakeholders to carry out projects that improve socioeconomic conditions, create employment and new business development opportunities while leveraging and conserving the country’s natural capital.

Green finance becomes a mainstream in the global financial markets

Green Finance Comes of Age in 2016

Posted on April 14, 2016 by Richard Matthews | 0 Comments

After years of volatility, green finance is emerging as a central part of our efforts to address climate change and transform our energy infrastructure. Green finance is preoccupied with adapting to the impacts of climate change and/or reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It is the means by which we can stream tremendous amounts of needed capital into emissions free sources of power. Although a precise definition of green finance (GF)…

Eco Highlights Green Climate Fund Challenges Ahead of Board Meeting

Posted on March 8, 2016 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

The new study highlights what’s working and what isn’t, as well as suggestions for improving the UN’s main vehicle for funding climate change mitigation and adaptation in developing countries.

COP 20 Underway in Lima

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

The 20th Conference of the Parties – COP 20 – opened yesterday in Lima, Peru. The meeting builds on the work done over the past 5 years in the aftermath of the disappointing Copenhagen Accord of COP 15 in Copenhagen. The major hurdles of building an international post-Kyoto Protocol climate treaty, primarily the issues between developing and developed countries, scuttled…

U.S. pledges $3 billion for Green Climate Fund

U.S Commits $3 Billion to Green Climate Fund

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Thomas Schueneman | 0 Comments

Last week signaled two potentially significant advances in the international effort to deal with climate change. On Wednesday China and the United States, the world’s two largest greenhouse gas emitters, announced a “historic” agreement to limit emissions. Then on Friday sources revealed the Obama administration’s intention to pledge $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) as a “call to arms” focusing attention on climate…

A testament to Sweden's environmental leadership: bicycles are a principal means of transportation

EarthTalk: Sweden’s Environmental Leadership

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Earth Talk | 0 Comments

EarthTalk® is a weekly environmental column made available to our readers from the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I recently heard that Sweden is the greenest country in the world. Is this true and, if so, by what standards? And where does the U.S. rank? – Raul Swain, New York, NY It’s true that Sweden came out on top…

GCF proposes yet another climate finance program. Is this really what is needed?

GCF Board Meets to Launch Yet Another Climate Finance Vehicle

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Andrew Burger | 0 Comments

The 24-member board of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Green Climate Fund (GCF) is meeting at its recently established headquarters in Songdo, South Korea this week to hammer out the details that will see the climate fund become fully operational. Over four years in the making and with a goal of raising $100 billion in capital…