UN Climate Negotiations EU INDC
The EU is not fulfilling its commitment to reduce emissions in line with the requirements of science and fairness. There is still a big gap between what it will take […]
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UN Climate Negotiations Climate Finance
Climate change is already affecting the world’s poorest people. From cyclones to droughts, to flooding, its impacts could set the clock back and erase the progress that has been made […]
Climate Finance: supporting solutions & action in developing countries
Although wealthy developed countries hold most responsibility for creating the climate crisis, the worst impacts of climate change disproportionately affect the world’s poorest countries; for example, unmanageable and frequent disasters […]
Paris needs to direct the world to 100% renewables by 2050
All countries have committed to a long term goal of keeping global warming below 2°C compared to pre-industrial levels. In Paris countries are looking into translating the 2°C target into […]
2030 Climate & Energy Targets
As part of the dynamic leading up to the Paris Climate Summit, almost all European countries have developed greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for 2030. An overview of these targets […]
Innovative sources of climate finance: How the EU can guarantee to provide consistent and predictable support
At the 2009 climate summit in Copenhagen, developed countries committed to contribute 100 billion dollars annually by 2020 to assist developing countries in tackling climate change by 2020. More than […]
Renewable energy is the only way forward! Wrong solutions for climate protection
Economic stakeholders will continue play a huge role in the energy transition and have a real responsibility. Their (investments) decisions will be crucial in the struggle to tackle climate change. […]
Three reasons (and more) why renewable energy is the only way forward
With the Paris Climate Summit fast approaching, we hear more and more talk about an energy transition towards a 100% renewable energy future and the urgency to phase out fossil […]
The Bonn download: CAN Europe reflections on climate finance in the UNFCCC June Inter-sessional
As the UNFCCC negotiations wrapped up at the newly finished World Conference Centre in Bonn, there was a feeling of slow and fractional progress towards the climate summit in Paris.
Climate Change and Financing for Sustainable Development (FfsD)
In July 2015, the third International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD) will be held in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. The conference will set the tone for international ambition on […]