IFAD report highlights ‘major’ climate finance gap for rural women
Climate finance is failing to reach rural women at a sufficient scale to help them adapt to climate change, a…
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Climate Finance refers to public and private investment that supports efforts to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts. It includes funding for projects such as renewable energy, low-carbon technologies, climate resilience, sustainable infrastructure and nature-based solutions, helping organisations and governments accelerate the transition to a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy. Climate finance has become an increasingly important component of corporate sustainability, investment strategies and international climate policy.
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COP31 needs to ‘supercharge solutions’, says Stiell
UN Climate Change executive secretary Simon Stiell has called on the governments attending COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye to “supercharge solutions”…
Governments need to put economic strategy at the centre of climate ambition at COP31
The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has called on governments to ‘put economic strategy at the centre of climate ambition’…
Just five countries have active deadlines to phase out fossil fuel subsidies
Just five out of 71 assessed countries still have an active commitment in place to phase out fossil fuel subsidies,…
Concerns over greenwashing may drive up the cost of climate finance
Concerns about greenwashing could increase the cost of financing the transition to a low-carbon economy, a new study by Saitama…
Germany will need to invest €6 trillion to achieve climate neutrality by 2045
Germany will need to invest €6 trillion over the next two decades or so if it is to achieve its…
Multilateral development banks raise climate finance to a record $163 billion
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) raised a record $163 billion in climate finance during 2025 to support low- and middle-income countries,…
Wealthy countries overstating the true value of climate finance, says Oxfam
Wealthy nations overstated the value of climate finance they provided to low- and middle-income countries by as much as $100…
World Bank Group shifts focus from finance targets to development outcomes
The World Bank Group has announced an ‘extension’ of its Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP), which will see it shift…
EIB, Green Climate Fund launch partnership to support climate projects
The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the United Nations Green Climate Fund (GCF) have signed a climate finance agreement, which…