Analysis

• COP Blog: Tackling land degradation offers new opportunities for investors

  16 November 2016

  Mirova
  It is estimated that two billion hectares of land are already degraded worldwide, and we continue to degrade another 12 million hectares of productive land every year.

  

• COP blog: Promoting the investor voice on climate finance at COP22

  16 November 2016

  IIGCC
  As Morocco's King Mohammed VI joined UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UNFCCC Executive Secretary Patricia Espinosa yesterday to welcome dignitaries to Bab Ighli the tone was firmly one of collective effort to sustain the 'Spirit of Paris', regardless of who is poised to move into the White House next January.

  

• COP blog: Big dams must not be allowed to sink the Green Climate Fund

  15 November 2016

  Friends of the Earth
  While little discussed at the COP, the channeling and use of climate finance must now take centre stage as the board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) prepares to meet next month in Samoa.

  

• COP blog: Who's got most to lose if the Paris Agreement fails?

  15 November 2016

  Verisk Maplecroft
  With Donald Trump's election victory still casting a shadow over events in Marrakesh, representatives will meet this week to further progress the mobilisation of climate finance.

  

• COP Blog: The Green Climate Fund's key role is to mobilise the private sector

  14 November 2016

  CMIA
  After the commitments and headlines of Paris a year ago, COP22 in Marrakesh has to be all about implementation. Faster than anyone expected, the Paris Agreement has already been ratified, but progress on the ground needs to ramp up.

  

• COP Blog: Sovereign green bonds: the missing link between NDCs and the $100trn debt capital markets

  11 November 2016

  BNP Paribas IP
  After the ratification of the Paris Agreement, we expect COP22 in Marrakesh to focus on the transparency of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), compliance and means of implementation.

  

• COP blog: The price of not investing in water

  10 November 2016

  European Investment Bank
  This week in Marrakesh I'll have water very much on my mind as my colleagues and I join experts and partners from the world's development banks and international financial institutions to pin down just how we are going to put the Paris Agreement into practice and to assess our progress since last year.

  

• COP blog: Words must now drive action

  09 November 2016

  IIGCC
  As a fortnight of crucial UN climate talks get underway in Marrakesh, IIGCC institutional investor members are optimistic about the political momentum that has accrued around the climate agenda over recent weeks

  

• COP blog: Improve private disclosure and integrate data into broader tracking efforts

  08 November 2016

  Climate Policy Initiative
  The Paris Agreement states that countries participating in the international climate negotiations shall make 'finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development'.

  

• Can't rain on the COP22 parade

  07 November 2016

  As delegates from around the world gather to begin ironing out the details of the landmark Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 2°C in a rainlogged Marrakesh, spirits could not be higher despite some enormous challenges.