Hydrogen, carbon removal and grids on Breakthrough Energy’s 2024 agenda
At the 2015 UN climate conference that delivered the Paris Agreement, Bill Gates announced that a coalition of 28 high-net-worth…
Climate Finance
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Leading with an invisible hand: what role will private finance play at COP28?
As global leaders spend the next two weeks hammering out decisions relating to the future of our planet at COP28…
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Climate finance surpasses $1trn a year
Six years on from the Paris Agreement, annual climate finance flows across the globe surpassed the $1trn mark in 2021,…
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Signal: Deutsche Bank “phasing out business” with thermal coal
Deutsche Bank published its initial Transition Plan last week (October 19), including new net-zero targets for three high-emitting industries in…
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What has a year of ‘global financial architecture reform’ actually achieved?
Global financial architecture - the international system through which countries can access financing to invest in infrastructure and development -…
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Don’t write off the Just Energy Transition Partnership just yet
When it was announced at COP26 in 2021, South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) seemed to offer an answer…
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Weekly data: how clean energy investment in Africa has stagnated
NAIROBI – Africa’s first climate summit wrapped up last week (6 September) with the release of the Nairobi Declaration, the…
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Africa Climate Summit wraps up with seminal – but flawed – ‘Nairobi Declaration’
NAIROBI - It felt at first like a climate summit born out of chaos. From the confusion around which leaders…
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‘Urgent action’ required to boost climate finance in Africa – IEA
NAIROBI - Doubling energy investment in Africa will require “urgent action” to bring down financing costs and boost access to…
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Flawed climate risk advice to pension funds “driving us off a cliff-edge”
Pension funds are risking economic catastrophe by relying on flawed economic advice around climate risk, finds a new report published…
