The public and private global financing raised for climate action in developing countries reached $62 billion in 2014, according to the OECD. According to a new study released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and conducted in collaboration with Climate Policy Initiative, public and private finance that was … [continued]
Writing for BusinessGreen earlier this week, Yvo de Boer laid out four ways which he believes are necessary for climate financing to successfully impact developing countries. The name Yvo de Boer will be recognizable to many readers as the man who served as the executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention … [continued]
A ten-day meeting to hone the draft text of the Paris 2015 universal climate agreement has begun in Bonn, Germany. Presidents of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Lima COP20 (Manuel Pulgar-Vidal, the deft and diplomatic Environment Minister of Peru) and the upcoming Paris COP21 meetings (Laurent Fabius, who is … [continued]
Numbers collated by senior editor at Greentech Media, Stephen Lacey, show that $42 million has been invested into off-grid solar companies currently working in developing countries already this year. Which, for context, equates to roughly two-thirds of all off-grid investments made throughout 2014. Greentech Media reported towards the end of … [continued]
The UN’s Lima COP20 conference stands up very well in its final days against those who doubt or scorn international efforts to reduce climate impacts. It’s not just a lot of hot air. The congruence of international climate experts and decisionmakers is allowing organizations public and private, worldwide, to focus … [continued]
For a quick summary of the progress of world negotiations on climate change so far, the Climate Group has produced a simple but expressive infographic (below is part of it, click to enlarge). At Tuesday’s Lima COP20 meeting, the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action … [continued]
We’ve thought for a while that the US had more leadership to contribute to the world climate process, so today’s news (still on the gossip vine at present) that President Obama has a $3 billion pledge in his pocket for the Global Climate Fund is not a total surprise. Growing … [continued]
As unprecedented storms, extinctions, and water, food, and energy wars continue to touch our world, warnings about destructive human-made climate change multiply and increase in stridency. At the United Nations in New York yesterday, some possible solutions were officially released. (VIDEO available here.) Experts from leading world research institutes convened … [continued]
New research out of the UK finds that CSP isn’t dead after all… it has quite a promising future in small-scale applications in developing countries. “The new research for the DECC investigates the potential to accelerate the deployment of small-scale concentrated solar power (CSP) in various developing countries, with a … [continued]
A new report shows that, as of the second quarter of 2012, the number of microgrids either planned, proposed or currently operating has continued to increase, representing a 54 percent increase over planned and operating capacity identified in the fourth quarter of 2011. “Microgrids are rapidly moving beyond pilot … [continued]
