05 September 2012

The 24 board members of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) finally met in Geneva on August 24th. After a five-month delay, the board met to work out the details of how the fund will operate, where its headquarters will be and how the money in the pot will be distributed. [1]

Now the biggest unresolved problem is filling the pot. Currently there are no concrete pledges other than the general agreement made by all UNFCCC parties in Copenhagen to provide $100 billion a year from 2015.

“We are massively concerned about the

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30 July 2012

Will Member States aim for a gold in energy savings?

On the evening of 13 June, after months of difficult political negotiations, an agreement was achieved in Brussels on the Energy Efficiency Directive (EED). "We fought like lions", said Martin Lidegaard, the Danish Minster of Climate and Energy who was largely responsible for getting the legislation passed.

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