Since the COP in Copenhagen in 2009, there has been a steady increase in climate funds – including domestic, bilateral and multilateral. Major multilateral climate funds include the Green Climate Fund (GCF), the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF). The GCF and the GEF are two implementation mechanisms for funding under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), with the GEF active since 1992 and the GCF since 2016. The Climate Investment Funds, which include the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) and the Strategic Climate Fund (SCF), were set up in 2008 outside the UNFCCC process to help developing countries finance development for low-carbon, climate-resilient development.
In our work, we evaluate the individual activities of these funds and other climate financing programs. In our central and widely acclaimed study for the Green Climate Fund and the Climate Investment Funds, we highlight synergies and overlaps between the various climate funds. We present our findings in a synthesis report as well as a portfolio analysis and five case studies for individual countries.
We also developed an online climate finance course for the Renewables Academy (RENAC), which is used in online seminars.
For the international climate financing of Germany, we provide our expertise to the Federal Ministry for the Environment in consulting projects such as the the evaluation of individual projects of the International Climate Initiative (IKI).
PROJECT BACKGROUND The International Climate Initiative (IKI) has been funding projects in the field of climate protection and biodiversity in developing, emerging and transition count-ries …
The International Climate Initiative (IKI) is funding more than 600 initiatives on climate mitigation, adaptation to climate change, conservation of carbon sinks and …
The large number of different climate funds and their different funding approaches and requirements make the climate financing landscape very confusing and seemingly …
Our founder, Christine Woerlen, PhD, and our team contributed the chapter “Using a Realist Framework to Overcome Evaluation Challenges in the Uncertain Landscape of Carbon Finance” …
The synthesis report summarizes the findings of a multilevel analysis of synergies and complementarities between funding streams from different multilateral climate finance mechanisms, including the …
This report presents the findings of the Independent Terminal Evaluation of the project “Industrial Energy Efficiency in Thailand” (herein referred to as “the project” or …