Rappler's latest stories on green climate fund
Philippines gets $10-M fund to boost early warning for disasters
House Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda, who is part of the Green Climate Fund Board, says hazard information will be translated into 'understandable and actionable early warnings' for people's safety
Donors pledge nearly $10 billion for U.N. climate fund
It exceeds the $9.3 billion pledged at the previous conference in 2014, of which only $7.2 billion has come through so far
Leaders join France's Macron to discuss climate cash crunch
Without trillions of dollars of investment in clean energy, the pact's goal to keep global warming below two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) over pre-industrial levels will remain a pipe dream
Trump could enact sweeping changes to environment policy – experts
Donald Trump could enact sweeping changes to environmental policy in the beginning days of his administration with far reaching effects both in the United States and around the world
Lopez: PH has access to $3M from Green Climate Fund
We are a good investment for climate change says Environment Secretary Gina Lopez
Déjà vu: Why I am strongly against our signing the Paris climate deal
The reality is that this is a deal crafted to suit the United States China and other big emitters
Aquino's COP21 speech: What didn't make the cut?
Failing to recognize the deep seated problems of climate change means we will fail in the search for genuine solutions
UN fund approves its first climate aid for poor nations
The UN Green Climate Fund says in a statement its board approves 168 million 155 million euros for 8 projects in countries including Peru Malawi Senegal Bangladesh Fiji and Maldives
Why rich countries need to talk about the Philippines
Will other G7 countries follow Germany s commitment to double climate finance for adaptation?
UN climate chief: Transport is future challenge for PH
UN climate chief Christiana Figueres says the Philippines can follow the lead of other developing countries which have adopted a bus rapid transit
Australia bows to pressure, pledges $165M to UN climate fund
The government had previously indicated it was not interested in the fund but Prime Minister Tony Abbott says we ve seen things develop over the last few months
Climate pledges exceed $10B at Lima talks
Finance is a touchy issue at the Lima negotiations where developing countries want wealthy economies to spell out their promised support as a sign of good faith in negotiations to forge a global climate pact by December 2015
Developing world may need annual $500B for climate by 2050 – UN
The projected amount is as much as 5 times higher than previous estimates and significantly more than today s spending on climate adaptation
UN climate talks open in Lima
Gathering 195 states the 12 day meeting also has to agree on the pact s heart – a format for nations to make pledges to reduce Earth warming carbon pollution
Climate talks to seek way to historic Paris pact
UPDATED The 12 day talks under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC take place amid grim scientific warnings but also revived political interest in sealing a pact in Paris in December 2015
Green Climate Fund hopes to raise billions in Berlin
Hitting the initial financial goal for the so called Green Climate Fund would be seen as a key step ahead of international talks in Peru next month and in France a year later on slashing worldwide carbon emissions
NGOs: UN Climate Summit not enough to change climate course
We saw some positive signs but all in all the pledges were not ambitious enough to keep up with the demand of climate scientists and advocates alike
On climate change: A message from NY to Paris
Cooperative action could perhaps be the best bet to bring together in the words of President Aquino a global maximum effort that will deliver a climate agreement that is fair balanced and in line with the principles of the Convention
‘Climate summit good kickoff but not enough’
Climate Change Commission Vice Chairperson Lucille Sering says the pledges in the summit to cut greenhouse gas emissions were not as ambitious as what vulnerable countries like the Philippines need
UN summit urges ambitious climate deal
World leaders urge ambitious action to combat climate change but pledges remained well short of goals with a year to go for an accord
UN to host biggest climate summit in history
What s on the agenda and what s at stake for Southeast Asian countries like the Philippines? Ayee Macaraig is at the UN Headquarters in New York She files this video blog
UN summit ‘biggest climate gathering in history’
The United Nations is set to host what it calls the biggest gathering of world leaders on climate change – but will this make a dent on deadlocked negotiations?
Optimism after Bonn climate talks
The midyear talks showed how essential trust was in a process that could potentially steer nations into creating new norms of policies and practices
New HQ but little cash for UN climate fund
The coffers of the UN s Green Climate Fund GCF are currently pretty bare and the importance of filling them as soon as possible was underlined
Walkout in UN meet over climate compensation
PH 132 other developing nations walk out of critical talks over climate compensation
PH groups hit rich countries for climate change turnaround
A week into the climate change talks in Poland countries are reneging on pledges to cut carbon emissions
US owes us climate debt – PH environmentalists
For causing global warming developed countries must fund climate resiliency programs of poorer countries that are prone to disasters according to activists
Salceda elected as UN Green Climate Fund co-chair
Salceda heads a 100 billion fund to help developing nations adapt to climate change
