CLIMATE FUNDING ANNOUNEMENTS PRE COP AND DURING COP 21 PARIS LE BOURGET

USPA NEWS - At the request of the French Presidency of COP21, UNFCCC has compiled recent and current announcements of climate funding on its web site alongside a simple interactive graphic.The secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) provides the list below from public sources.

A number of climate funding announcements by developed country governments, multilateral development banks and multilateral climate funds have been made in the run-up to and at the COP 21 UN climate change conference. The secretariat of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has compiled the list below from public sources and produced an interactive user graphic to show the essential details of each. The graphic is also available at http://climatefundingsnapshot.com/---------------------------------------------------------------------- The sites are based on announcements that the UNFCCC has been sent from governments, development banks, the private sector and other partners, ones noticed in media reports and others gathered from public sources. The information is neither totally comprehensive nor does it attempt to total the funding amounts concerned or address issues of methodology. The UNFCCC is endeavouring to update the graphic daily depending on what is announced while catching up on some key ones that may have been missed!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- See article : GREEN FUND FOR CLIMATE COMPRISES 8 APPROVED PROJECTS AMOUNTING TO $ 168 MILLION MAJOR ISSUE OF THE POOR COUNTRIES-COP21 - See more at: http://www.unknown.uspa24.com/bericht-6146/green-fund-for-climate-comprises-8-approved-projects-amounting-to-168-million.html#sthash.BxhWIBUI.dpuf

ANNOUNCEMENTS BY DEVELOPED COUNTRY PARTIES------------------------------------------------------------------------- “¢ Austria will strive to provide at least EUR half a billion in climate finance between 2015 and 2020, in addition to the current Austrian pledge to the GCF. “¢ Belgium announced at the Leaders Event a commitment to provide EUR 50 million annually until 2020, and recalled its EUR 51.6 million contribution to the Green Climate Fund. “¢ Canada will provide CAD 2.65 billion over the next five years in international climate finance to support a transition to low-carbon economies that are both sustainable and more resilient.“Ž “¢ The Czech Republic recalls its announcement to contribute approximately USD 5.3 million to the GCF for the initial replenishment period and additional approximately USD 2 million for the climate finance readiness activities. “¢ Denmark announced that it would commit DKK 270 million (approximately USD 38 million) in earmarked climate finance in 2016, including DKK 156 million to the Least Developed Countries Fund (approximately USD 22 million) (subject to parliamentary approval). “¢ Estonia has announced its intention to provide EUR 6 million between 2015 and 2020 for climate finance; from that EUR 1 million has already been pledged to the Green Climate Fund. “¢ European Commission announced its intention to more than double climate finance grants from the EU budget up to 2020, reaching EUR 2 billion per year on average. “¢ Finland intends to provide over EUR half a billion in new investment funding for developing countries over the next four years, a substantial part of which will contribute to climate finance.