The Carbon Trust is one of 13 organisations across the globe supporting the World Bank’s new Climate Business Innovation Network (CBIN). The network has been created to...
The need for urgent action on the global goal on adaption, a key component of the Paris Agreement for increasing support to vulnerable countries, populations and...
For those living in remote or rural areas, having financial inclusion is beneficial to businesses and, more significantly, poorer people in developing countries. Research shows that...
News that 17 philanthropic donors have set up a new $53m fund to aid developing countries in improving their energy efficiency and phase out the use of potent greenhouse...
Good governance and large carbon sinks in developing countries are likely to be the principal destination for major green donors’ climate mitigation funding, new research has found. The...
The European Investment Bank has been approved as a new partner institution of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today. The Green Climate Fund was set up...
Yesterday the UK government committed to substantially increase the amount of funding they are providing to help the most vulnerable countries protect themselves from the effects of...
The report of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate is measured, well-researched and optimistic: technically rich and politically astute. But what is new? And what are the implications...
The world’s developing economies, including China and India, have overtaken the world’s richest in cutting carbon emissions, with a 1.7% decrease last year over the G7’s...
The Uniting Church in Australia Assembly has voted to divest from fossil fuels companies, blamed for contributing to dangerous climate change, becoming the latest religious organisation...
UK’s Homeless International charity has decided to change its model in order to be able to issue loans to NGOs in Africa and Asia to build...
The BRICS group, made up of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, have established their own international bank, to promote sustainable investment and to act...
Leaked emails by the World Bank, seen by the Observer, show how loans could become more readily available, potentially leading to lower environmental and social standards. ...
A 50 megawatt (MW) solar panel project, led by India’s National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC), is to be constructed in the southern state of Kerala and...
Proponents of free trade and fair trade will lock horns in London later in September, in a debate around which is most effective in helping developing...