Is climate finance for cookstove and charcoal projects helping communities, forests or the climate?
Originally published on germanclimatefinance.de International climate and forest-related finance has always been one of the stickiest issues in multilateral efforts to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of climate change, and the urgency of action means that it must be properly monitored and scrutinized. The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a case in point, and the German government is one of the main contributors to this multi-lateral climate finance mechanism. Two new reports look at projects that Germany has recently …
