Tag: UN-REDD Programme

REDD+ finance: What you see isn’t always what you get

Alice Harrison, Transparency International A colleague recently likened his experience tracking climate and REDD+ money in Mexico to an archaeological dig. Little by little, fragments of your object begin to reveal themselves, but not without a significant amount of time, resources and tenacity. At Transparency International (TI) we have been monitoring climate finance flows in…

REDD+ finance: who’s counting?

Charlene Watson, ODI and Marigold Norman, Forest Trends Finance for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation plus conservation (REDD+) activities has been flowing for at least five years now. But what can we really say about how much finance there has been, where it has come from, where it is going, and what it is being spent…

New update – June 2013

The Climate Funds Update data is now current as of June 2013. This brief note highlights new developments including pledges, approvals, and disbursements. New Climate Finance pledges March 2013 – May 2013: On 24th May 2013 Sweden’s government announced a new pledge to the Adaptation Fund of USD 15 million, making Sweden the biggest donor to the…