Climate Finance

The Green Climate Fund should remain fully independent from the World Bank. Its design committee should engage experts from UN agencies and all regions of the world.

With the UN's Cancun Climate Conference due to kick off at the end of November, environmental ministers and climate change negotiators have been very busy the past few weeks.

The six-day Tianjin climate talks, which concluded this weekend, made so little progress that some diplomats openly wondered whether continuing the UNFCCC process was even politically worthwhile.

Although China and Japan are deeply connected trading partners, the Asian giants sit on opposite sides of the climate debate. In spite of their differences, the two countries have a history of climate cooperation.

The World Resources Institute recently released updated estimates of the "fast-start" climate mitigation and adaption commitments rich nations made to...

The developed world -- responsible for both today's financial as well as climate crisis -- must help pay the costs for the developing world to do the right thing.

COPENHAGEN — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced that the United States is prepared to join other rich countries in raising $1...

The entire world will gain enormously from the resulting predictability, fairness and follow-through of climate and development financing that we urgently need.

UPDATE: On Thursday morning, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared at the climate summit and announced that the United States would contribute t...

From The AP: COPENHAGEN — A clearly frustrated President Barack Obama displayed impatience Friday with world leaders' failure to reach a new cl...