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Green Scissors 2012
Green Scissors 2012 identifies wasteful and environmentally harmful programs that could cost taxpayers almost $700 billion over the next decade.
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The Green Climate Fund’s No-Objection Procedure and Private Finance: Lessons Learned from Existing Institutions
The purpose of the no-objection procedure is two-fold: (i) to facilitate genuine country ownership and (ii) to ensure that the people living within a country, particularly individuals and communities…
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Leveraging Private Finance: Lessons for Climate and Development Effectiveness
Private finance is motivated by profit first and foremost. It is thus difficult to drive private investment towards poorer countries, where there is generally higher risk
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The silver lining to a terribly dark cloud — the Green Climate Fund and Durban
There have been lots of “d” words used to describe the Durban climate talks that recently ended in South Africa —
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Protect the Green Climate Fund
Amid rallying cries of “Amandla! Awetu!” (“Power to the people” in Zulu), we stood in front of a giant octopus with outstretched tentacles. This octopus was greedily trying to…
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Letter to GCF Transitional Committee (Dec 2011)
Letter to the GCF Transitional Committee expressing concern that the GCF must not be “turned into a ‘Greedy Corporate Fund’”
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What would Robin Hood say?
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany. By Asad Rehman, Friends of the Ear…
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World Bank’s forest carbon fund raises concerns
In the margins of the 8th Carbon Expo in Barcelona today, the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) will launch a new fund, known as the FCPF Carbon Fund. The Carbon F…
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Letter to GCF Transitional Committee (May 2011)
Letter to the Co-chairs of the GCF Transitional Committee concerning civil society participation and transparency in the Transitional Committee process.