Climate Finance & Development

Climate finance is not aid, as sometimes misunderstood. It's restitution, for the injustice of climate change – caused by the North, but with impacts in the South, not just environmentally but in terms of development and economic growth.

pdf CAN Europe letter on post-2015 development framework (24 May 2013) (156 KB)

pdf Letter to EU President/ Finance ministers in advance of ECOFIN conclusions (April 2013)

document NGO Briefing Paper on Climate Finance in the MFF (September 2012) (132 KB)

pdf Letter to President Hollande on the Financial Transaction Tax (Dec 2012)

document Submission on "Ensuring Sustainable Development Globally: EU Follow-Up To Rio+20" (131 KB)

document CAN-Europe Green Climate Fund briefing (February 2012) (40 KB)

pdf CAN-Europe Climate Finance priorities 2012 policy briefing (February 2012) (179 KB)

document Mind the climate finance gap presentation, EGI (JUNE 2012) (655 KB)

CAN Europe, Aprodev, German Watch, CIDSE and Oxfam commissioned the a report in order to identify how the EU can improve the current process for monitoring their climate finance commitments.

NGOs welcome the renewed resolve expressed by EU Finance Ministers today [1] to help developing countries adapt to climate change and curb carbon emissions. Environmental and development groups now call on EU Member States to find the resources to make their pledge a reality.