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What’s in store for the Green Climate Fund in 2012?
With the first board meeting of the Green Climate Fund scheduled for the end of April, now is a good time to provide a bit of a primer and update on the GCF. The lead-up to the Green Climate Fund Sinc…
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Letter to GCF Secretariat
Letter to the GCF Secretariat from Indigenous Peoples and support organizations with comments and recommendations on the modalities for selection, activities and roles of observers and active observer…
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Civil Society Recommendations
Observer participation in the proceedings of the Board of the Green Climate Fund, Preliminary responses for initial consultation,
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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’”