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GCF rehabilitating hydro is 'shameful' - NGO
11 April 2017The Green Climate Fund's (GCF) decision to rehabilitate a Soviet era dam in Tajikistan has been labelled 'shameful' by one senior analyst.
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COP blog: Big dams must not be allowed to sink the Green Climate Fund
15 November 2016Friends of the Earth
While little discussed at the COP, the channeling and use of climate finance must now take centre stage as the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) prepares to meet next month in Samoa. -
COP Blog: Paris's $100bn question
01 December 2015Much more needs to be done if promises to channel $100 billion a year of climate finance to developing nations are to be kept, says Karen Orenstein
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COP Blog: Don't turn the GCF into the Greedy Corporate Fund
10 December 2014Last week, the UN Climate Summit in Lima, Peru, kicked off amid controversy with news that Japan had counted loans for coal projects in Indonesia as international climate finance.
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World's NGOs warn UN of 'greenwash' in green bonds market
23 September 2014More than 100 organisations have joined forces to urge the UN to ensure "the green bond market is truly green" when looking at global counter-climate change investment.
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COP Blog: WTF – Where's The Finance?
21 November 2013The annual UN climate talks – known as the Conference of Parties, or COP – had been billed, all too optimistically, as a 'Finance COP'.