New SLoCaT-GIZ TRANSfer Report on How to Systematically Use Climate Finance for Sustainable Transport

by Alice Yiu | Dec 8, 2015 | News

The SLoCaT Partnership working with the GIZ TRANSfer project has just launched a new report on how to systematically use Climate Finance for Sustainable Transport. International Climate Finance (ICF),...

Multilateral Development Banks Join Forces to Ramp up Climate Action in Transport

by Alice Yiu | Dec 2, 2015 | News

Eight multilateral development banks today issued a joint statement, committing to accelerate their efforts to mitigate transport emissions and recognizing the need for more action on the resilience of transport to climate change. The sector accounts for about 60% of...

Africa Progress Panel Report (2015) Recommends Focus on Rural and Public Transport to Target Climate Change and Unlock Africa’s Energy Potential

by SLOCAT | Aug 28, 2015 | News

The latest annual Africa Progress Report, Power, People, Planet: Seizing Africa’s Energy and Climate Opportunities, published by the Africa Progress Panel (APP), describes how African governments, the international public and the private sector can transform the...

Multilateral Development Banks provided $6.3 billion to climate finance for sustainable transport in 2014, accounting for 23% of total portfolio

by Alice Yiu | Jun 17, 2015 | News

The recently released 2014 Joint report on Multilateral Development Banks’ Climate Finance indicates that multilateral development banks (MDBs), including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development...

Latest ODI annual report concludes that 60% (US$ 503mil) of urban climate finance has gone to transport

by Alice Yiu | Jun 8, 2015 | News

The Overseas development institute (ODI) has released their annual report, Climate finance for cities: How Can International Climate Funds Support Low Carbon Resilient Urban Development. Succintly, the report concludes that transport is a key factor in urban...