Climate Finance: An Overview

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Climate Finance: An Overview

The climate finance problem is in some ways simple. Humans are not spending enough money on climate action, neither to mitigate climate change and keep global warming well below 2 degrees, nor to adapt to increasingly severe climate impacts such as heat waves or droughts.

By Noah Gordon

Published on Jun 21, 2023

Environment Journal

About the Author

Noah Gordon

Fellow, Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program and Fellow, Europe Program

Noah J. Gordon is a fellow in the Sustainability, Climate, and Geopolitics Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

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