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Green Climate Fund meeting serves as harbinger of success for 2015 Paris climate summit
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Next week, Barbados — a small island, developing state threatened by climate-induced sea level rise — will host a critical board meeting of the United Nations Green C…
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To Ban Ki-moon: Champion public funds for climate finance, fight greenwashing of green bonds
In light of this week’s U.N. General Assembly and Climate Summit, 118 groups from 37 countries urged U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (1) to ensure that private finance is not counted as inter…
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Letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Letter urging UN Secretary-General to (1) ensure that private finance is not counted as international climate finance, and (2) work against the greenwashing of private investment, particularly in the…
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Robin Hood Tax rally to kick off Peoples Climate March
Tax on Wall Street key to funding climate solutions WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) will join community, health, labor, student and environmental groups to kick start the Peop…
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Robin Hood to Ban Ki-moon: I can show you the money!
Among the surging crowds of hundreds of thousands of folks at the People’s Climate March on September 21 in New York, you will see marchers in pointy green felt hats, and if you are lucky, a fully g…
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Letter to UN Special Rapporteur
Letter to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association, with concerns about the GCF.
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Strengthening Country Ownership, Country Driven Approach, Direct Access
Letter to the GCF Board on strengthening country ownership, a country-driven approach and direct access.
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Keep dirty energy out of Green Climate Fund, demand activists and community groups
A coalition of nearly 300 civil society organizations mainly from developing countries are raising alarms that the Green Climate Fund could be used to finance projects that are just a little less dirt…
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Addressing the climate crisis with a Robin Hood Tax
As president of Friends of the Earth U.S., I am proud to support, on behalf of our more than 250,000 members and activists and in solidarity with our friends from numerous activist organizations, a Ro…
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Paris unfinished business: A transparent no-objection procedure for the Green Climate Fund
When the Green Climate Fund Board met in Paris earlier this month, they postponed making a decision on the “no-objection procedure.” This procedure would require active endorsement of any GCF acti…