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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.

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By Noah Gordon
Published on Jun 21, 2023

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Noah J. Gordon
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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