The World Bank Group "Paris Alignment" methodology is a mixed picture that encourages the consideration of the needed sectoral transitions but will require more details to fully align with the Paris Agreement.
Expert BlogInternational, United StatesJoe Thwaites, Brendan Guy
After a six-year hiatus, President Biden announced the United States is resuming its contributions to the Green Climate Fund with a new allocation of $1 billion.
Devastating climate impacts around the world, a global energy crisis, and a growing number of countries in debt distress have reinforced the urgency of rapidly increasing funding for climate action. Yet rich countries’ failure to deliver on past finance pledges…
The Biden administration must prioritize – at COP27 and beyond – providing the necessary tools for Africa to equitably decarbonize and sustain its economic potential in the face of rising climate impacts. At COP27 and beyond, leaders need to show…
Leaders came to the climate summit in Glasgow with a daunting, necessary, and achievable task—put the world on a much more plausible pathway to “keep 1.5°C alive”. To do that they needed to set more ambitious commitments and take noticeable…
The Paris Agreement charted a new course in the effort to combat global climate change, requiring countries to make commitments and progressively strengthen them. Here’s what the accord seeks to achieve, and why our future may depend on its success.
President Biden's early actions breathe new energy into the global race to achieve net zero emissions. But leaders from all key countries need to step up ambition further by COP 26 to keep the possibility of holding global warming to…
The key tasks for the next few years are to (1) ramp up climate finance through the Green Climate Fund and other channels, (2) shift resources out of high-carbon projects into low-carbon activities across the economy, and (3) to make…
One of the key elements of the decisions in Poland were rules around the "Transparency and Accountability" provisions to implement the Paris Agreement— how we will track progress and hold countries accountable to deliver their national and international climate commitments…
One year after the Paris Agreement officially entered into force, how are countries doing on meeting their climate commitments? More than 160 countries have formally joined the agreement, and are moving forward to implement policies to tackle climate change. Some…
