191 countries. Wildly differing priorities. Scientific uncertainty. Limited budgets. Short timescales. It’s no wonder that reaching agreements at international climate negotiations is difficult. But depressingly, making agreements is actually the easy bit: keeping to them can be much, much harder. Take this week’s report by the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP), a research organisation [...]

Yesterday the GEF (Global Environment Facility) held a side event at Poznan on “Financing Adaptation for the Poor”. This included presentations from Eritrea and Samoa on how they were using money from the LDCF (Least Developed Countries Fund). For disambiguation between all the different adaptation funds, click here. In short, the LDCF and SCCF are [...]