Green Climate Fund pledges put its ambition at risk

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class="news-date">Published on <span itemprop="datePublished" content="2023-10-05T17:52:05+01:00">05/10/2023, 5:52pm</span></time> <meta itemprop="dateModified" content="2023-10-05T17:56:49+01:00"/> <p class="news-excerpt" itemprop="alternativeHeadline description"> The UN’s flagship climate finance initiative can barely sustain its existing portfolio after a lackluster fundraising conference on Thursday </p> <div class="wp-caption" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject"> <img width="799" height="450" src="https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2021/03/12120756/Songdo-South-Korea-.jpg" class="img-responsive wp-post-image" alt="Green Climate Fund pledges put its ambition at risk" itemprop="image" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2021/03/12120756/Songdo-South-Korea-.jpg 799w, https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2021/03/12120756/Songdo-South-Korea--112x63.jpg 112w, https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2021/03/12120756/Songdo-South-Korea--298x168.jpg 298w, https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2021/03/12120756/Songdo-South-Korea--768x433.jpg 768w, https://cdn.climatechangenews.com/files/2021/03/12120756/Songdo-South-Korea--598x337.jpg 598w" sizes="(max-width: 799px) 100vw, 799px" /> <p class="wp-caption-text" itemprop="caption">Lightning over the city of Songdo, South Korea, where the Green Climate Fund is headquartered (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldmeteorologicalorganization/50746796532/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Soonye Yoon/World Meterological Organisation/Flickr</a>) </p> </div> <p class="news-author">By <span itemprop="author"> <a href="https://www.climatechangenews.com/author/matteo-civillini/" title="Posts by Matteo Civillini" class="author url fn" rel="author">Matteo Civillini</a> </span> </p> <div class="news-content" itemprop="articleBody"><p><strong>The UN’s flagship climate fund has raised $9.3 billion from rich governments to help developing nations go green and protect people from the impacts of climate change – less than in its last replenishment round four years ago.</strong></p> <p>As contributions from traditional donors flatline, the Green Climate Fund’s new leadership is looking to private sources to make the money stretch.</p> <p>Japan and Norway were the only major donors to announce new contributions at a pledging conference for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in Bonn, Germany, on Thursday. They offered less money – in US dollar terms – than in the previous fundraising round in 2019.</p> <p>Other potential big contributors like Sweden, Italy and Switzerland, flagged their intention to make pledges in the coming weeks, saying they were not yet ready to do so for internal budgetary reasons.</p> <p>Germany, the United Kingdom and France <a href="https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/09/21/green-climate-fund-may-have-to-curb-ambition/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">made pledges</a> ahead of the conference.</p> <p>The United States, which did not provide any money in 2019 under then-President Donald Trump, failed to announce any contribution citing “ongoing uncertainty in our budget”.</p> <p>Australia said it would rejoin “with a modest contribution” to the fund from which it had withdrawn under a previous right-wing government in 2018. 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That is contrasted with a mid-level target of $12.5 billion and a “high” scenario of $15 billion.</p> <blockquote><p><a href="https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/10/05/exposed-carbon-offsets-linked-to-high-forest-loss-still-on-sale/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Exposed:</strong> carbon offsets linked to high forest loss still on sale</a></p></blockquote> <p>The different levels of ambitions have real-world significance.</p> <p>In the “status quo” scenario, the bulk of resources would be taken up by projects already in the pipeline – the document says – with new programming only achievable through “significant trade-offs”.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Under a “mid” scenario, the fund plans to extend early warning systems to four more countries, help five million more smallholder farmers and develop climate-friendly food systems and ecosystems.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the “high” scenario, the fund would help developing countries’ financial systems work towards a green transition and promote clean technology innovation, the document says.</span></p> <p><iframe class="flourish-embed-iframe" style="width: 100%; height: 600px;" title="Interactive or visual content" src="https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/15240747/embed" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" sandbox="allow-same-origin allow-forms allow-scripts allow-downloads allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation"></iframe></p> <div style="width: 100%!; margin-top: 4px!important; text-align: right!important;"><a class="flourish-credit" style="text-decoration: none!important;" href="https://public.flourish.studio/visualisation/15240747/?utm_source=embed&utm_campaign=visualisation/15240747" target="_top" rel="noopener"><img decoding="async" style="width: 105px!important; height: 16px!important; border: none!important; margin: 0!important;" src="https://public.flourish.studio/resources/made_with_flourish.svg" alt="Made with Flourish" /> </a></div> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Liane Schalatek from the Heinrich Böll Foundation told Climate Home that this is the “wrong signal” to send with only a few weeks to go before Cop28. “</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">If we are staying at 10 billion it is an effective reduction because of the significant inflation that we have seen since the last fundraising. This is simply not good enough.”</span></p> <h3>Calls for other money flows</h3> <p>The lack of more commitment from wealthy governments may also deal a blow to the new vision for the fund outlined by Mafalda Duarte less than two weeks ago. The executive director wants the fund to have a capitalisation of $50 billion by 2030, up from $17 billion today.</p> <p>A key pillar of the plan is the ability to draw in dollars from the private sector. “Public resources will not be enough”, said Duarte on Thursday. “They need to be enablers of a much larger flow of investment.”</p> <blockquote><p><a href="https://www.climatechangenews.com/2023/10/02/cop28-boss-appeal-to-raise-climate-targets-met-with-total-indifference/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>Cop28 boss’</strong> appeal to raise climate targets met with total indifference</a></p></blockquote> <p>Major donors are increasingly calling for an expansion to the donor base beyond the countries historically defined as “developed”. 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