Tag: climate finance

COP-upy

Nathan Thanki December 10, 2011 0 Comments
by Nathan Thanki and Trudi Zundel Last week the people marched past the UNFCCC meetings with trucks, horns and speakerphones blasting political messages for the delegates inside negotiating over the future of the planet. No one inside blinked an eye. A crowd of maybe 50 people gathered by the gated walkway to see them march, and horsed policemen barred every potential entrance. We were left...

Yields of the Night Vigil

Anjali Appadurai December 10, 2011 0 Comments
by Anjali Appadurai I started this post at 4am, and worked on it intermittently until now - 9:30am. No new LCA text, no sleep. These ministers worked through the night, and through the documents they released from their "indaba" at a couple of different intervals, we have some meagre updates. The indaba high-level consultations convened at midnight and are still going strong, with three draft...

“Not just a fund-a JUST climate fund”

Nathan Thanki December 8, 2011 0 Comments
by Nathan Thanki Before we get the official say on what the green climate fund should look like, let's just remind ourselves what a really just GCF would look like. As one member of the YOUNGO finance working group said today "we don't want just another climate fund, we want a just climate fund." So what is a just climate fund? First and foremost, a just fund must be a transparent fund that...

What happened to the hope of a green climate fund?

Nathan Thanki December 8, 2011 0 Comments
by Nathan Thanki In our pre-COP speculations, everyone thought that the GCF would be one of the key issues and (possibly) outcomes of Durban. The promise--of a new, large, additional, transparent fund that would be driven by the countries that received the money and guaranteed adaptation funding--was great, a light at the end of the dark tunnel through which parts of the regime, like the...

Take it, leave it or change it…

jvelez December 8, 2011 0 Comments
by Julian Velez The ALBA group (Bolivarian Alliance of the Americas) sees that Transitional Committee (TC) has expressed very serious concerns regarding   the Green Climate Fund (GCF). The TC was uncharged of drafting all the details of how the GCF is going to function and the TC report was brought up for either adopting or rejecting it. The ALBA group doesn´t want to reject the report but...