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 […]
Work area: Financing the transition
The concept of Climate Finance
The origins of the concept of climate finance in the context of the UN climate negotiations and the UNFCCC Agreement to provide it. The concept of climate finance has existed […]
Why a price on carbon cannot fix everything
Some market fundamentalists make that a simple price on carbon (i.e. an ETS) can fix everything. This is simply wrong, has been proven wrong by many studies and it will […]
Joint Letter: Reshaping the European Fiscal Framework
In this joint letter, NGOs, trade union representatives as well as academics and researchers call on the EU to rethink and realign the EU’s fiscal framework with the challenges ahead: […]
Secrecy surrounding €672 billion in EU recovery funding jeopardises building back better, say campaigners
Little is known about how Member States intend to use funds from the EU’s EUR 672 billion Recovery and Resilience Facility, raising concerns about the bloc’s ability to rebound from […]
Letter to European Commission: Public partnership and respect for the Aarhus Convention are preconditions for green recovery
Member States are going to invest an unprecedented amount of EU public funds and resources through the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), which amounts to EUR 672 billion. This is […]
CAN Europe submission to consultation on EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
This document sets out our feedback to the European Commission’s draft Delegated Act on the EU Sustainable Taxonomy, for economic activities having a substantial contribution to climate mitigation and climate […]
EU Budget’s regional funding at risk of flying in the face of the European Green Deal
MEDIA ADVISORY On 8-9 December, the Commission, Parliament and Council will take a final decision on the 240 billion euro Regional Development and Cohesion Funds, and the 17.5 billion euro […]
EU funds need to catalyse the transition away from fossil fuels
The Recovery & Resilience Facility (RRF), the Just Transition Fund (JTF) and the European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund (ERDF/CF) represent an unprecedented investment in EU economic recovery, structural […]
Poland and Hungary must live up to EU’s greatest challenges: Unlock the budget and recovery and go for higher climate ambition
At a European summit dedicated to enhancing the EU’s response to the COVID outbreak, prime ministers of Poland and Hungary reiterated their opposition to the EU budget and recovery funds […]