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BRIEFS
November 07, 2024
How committed is each country to tackling climate change at home and to helping developing countries? We consider nine key indicators on the world’s major economies spanning their climate contributions in three areas: international finance, policy, and emissions. Indicators are calculated to be comp...
CGD NOTES
October 28, 2024
A major shortcoming of the $100 billion climate finance goal agreed in 2009 was the absence of a clear baseline. With draft negotiating text for a new climate finance goal now available, we set out some relevant starting measures and amounts to inform the negotiations going into COP29 and make recom...
Blog Post
October 17, 2024
Discussions on climate change and development typically rely on three stylized facts—developing countries are most hurt by climate change; developed countries are most responsible historically; but developing countries are now the biggest emitters. This narrative is central to UNFCCC climate negotia...
Blog Post
May 23, 2024
In this blog we summarise our new analysis, in which we estimate with a high level of confidence that over $100bn of climate finance was indeed provided in 2022. In our central estimate, we project $106.8bn of climate finance was provided, meeting the goal in the OECD’s interpretation. We also consi...
CGD NOTES
May 23, 2024
Developed countries committed to provide or mobilise $100 billion (bn) per year in climate finance by 2020. Although that goal was missed, the OECD suggested last year that it was likely that the goal had been met in 2022. In this note, we use newly available bilateral and multilateral finance data ...
Blog Post
November 30, 2023
The latest climate COP, or “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,” got underway today in Dubai. It will be attended by thousands of delegates from governments, the private sector, media, and civil society, with two hectic weeks of events and negotiat...
Blog Post
September 13, 2023
For 20 years, the Commitment to Development Index has assessed countries' policies and the level of effort they go to in order to contribute to international development. Because development depends on much more than foreign aid, the Index looks at countries’ performance across eight different polic...
