One World – One Environment – One Network
UN-Habitat and ICLEI teamed up in 2012 to support eight cities develop urban low emission development strategies. They have now taken the project into a second phase, in which they are supporting more than...
The European Investment Bank has announced that it will end financing for fossil fuel energy projects from the end of 2021 as part of its new energy lending policy. It also aims to align...
UN Environment’s District Energy in Cities Initiative, which unlocks private sector finance to cut greenhouse gas emissions from heating and cooling, has been named best partnership in the energy sector at a global summit...
New York governor Andrew Cuomo denounced the Trump administration’s offshore drilling plan while at the same time announcing $1.4 billion in funding for 26 large-scale renewable energy projects across the state. With former Vice...
The World Bank is stepping up its efforts to decarbonize the global economy. At the One World Summit in Paris on Tuesday, it announced that it will no longer finance upstream oil and gas...
Urban experts are warning that the New Urban Agenda does not go far enough on financing. Some fear it could pave the way for a surge in private development at the expense of liveable...
Major western banks continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into fossil fuels and are driving climate change with their investments, argues a new report from a group of environmental organisations. Major banks...
The World Bank has unveiled a new climate action that will see it spend 28 per cent of its investments on climate change projects in developing countries to help them achieve their national climate...
The Global Environmental Facility has launched a new platform aimed at mobilising billions to support cities finance their sustainability plans. The seven Chinese cities participating in the programme will focus on transit-oriented development. The...
The Addis Ababa Action Agenda is being hailed as a major achievement that will help the international community finalise the new Post-2015 Development Agenda. But some charge it does not go far enough on...
African countries south of the Sahara are losing the energy supply race. As a recently published report explains, it could end up the only region in the world in which the number of people...
92 leading banks across the globe provided at least 66 billion euros in financing to the coal industry, a record-breaking amount that environmental campaigners describe as a vital lifeline to an increasingly beleaguered coal...
