News

24 May 2022

State and Trends of Carbon Pricing 2022

The 2022 edition of the annual State and Trends of Carbon Pricing report was launched at Innovate4Climate today.
05 May 2022

[New Blog] Study seeks to guide investors to mitigation opportunities in forests and agriculture

There is an urgent need to identify financing strategies for nature-positive investment opportunities.
07 November 2016

Will carbon pricing emerge in Africa as well?

Sandra Greiner of Climate Focus contributes an article on emerging carbon pricing schemes in Africa together with Andrew Howard and two African co-authors in the latest IETA GHG Report 2016/17.
07 November 2016

COP 22 Africa Pavilion, Wednesday 09.11.2016 18:00-19:30, Salle 1

Please join us at our side-event "Realizing African NDCs through linking the Paris Agreement's Article 6 with climate finance" along with joint organizers AERA and Perspectives.
07 November 2016

Prospects for Africa's CDM activities under the Paris Agreement

Climate Focus has published its pre-COP 22 policy brief evaluating the impact of the existing CDM pipeline on the ongoing Article 6 negotiations.
03 November 2016

JUST RELEASED: Progress on the New York Declaration on Forests - Eliminating Deforestation from the Production of Agricultural Commodities Goal 2 Assessment Report

Climate Focus is pleased to announce the publication of the latest Progress on the New York Declaration on Forests reports.
25 October 2016

Climate Focus support EAC negotiators in their COP 22 preparation

Climate Focus joined forces with partner Carbon Africa to organize a pre-COP 22 negotiation support meeting held on 17-18 October in Entebbe, Uganda aimed at supporting East African negotiators.
20 October 2016

Charlotte Streck presents new report published on Emissions Trading Registries

Charlotte Streck presents the new "Emissions Trading Registries' report, co-authored by Climate Focus and a team of experts on October 17, 2016 to the audience of a PMR meeting in Hanoi.
29 September 2016

Climate Focus announces the release of its latest publication, Linking the Clean Development Mechanism with the Green Climate Fund: Models for scaling up mitigation action

In response to the increasing importance for policymakers and project developments to link the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), the study examines six specific models.
11 September 2016

Time to come to grips with double counting

Double counting can occur in multiple forms and, unless properly dealt with, risks compromising the environmental integrity of the climate regime by distorting actual greenhouse emissions achieved.
11 September 2016

Negotiations on cooperative mechanisms (Article 6)

The Paris Agreement establishes a new set of mechanisms for voluntary cooperation between countries. Binding these approaches together is the overarching goal of Article 6.1.
11 September 2016

Climate Focus prepares second edition of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) Assessment Report

Climate Focus is currently working on the second edition of the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) Progress Assessment Report, set to be released in early November 2016.
25 August 2016

Lecture and Sinfonía Trópico book launch event

On August 24, Charlotte Streck hosted the Sinfonía Trópico book launch event in Bogotá, Colombia and gave a lecture on European and German climate policy.
27 June 2016

Join us at the African Carbon Forum 2016 28-30 June in Kigali, Rwanda

Climate Focus is looking forward to intense and fruitful discussions at the African Carbon Forum 2016. Join us at our Side Event on June 28, 2016 from 17:30-18:30, in the Marenga room, Bamboo Lodge
17 May 2016

Meet us at the Carbon Expo 2016 in Cologne (25 - 27 May 2016)

Climate Focus is pleased to present itself at the Carbon Expo 2016 in Cologne. You can meet our team in the German Pavilion.
17 May 2016

Bonn Climate Change Conference SBI 44 (16 - 26 May 2016)

Sandra Greiner, Szymon Mikolajczjk and Tobias Hunzai will be participating in the SBI meeting in Bonn and will be happy to see you there to discuss ongoing or future collaborations.
04 May 2016

Climate Focus announces its latest publication entitled The Paris Agreement: A New Beginning

Climate Focus is pleased to announce its latest publication which presents a critical assessment of the Paris Agreement adopted under the UNFCCC.
16 March 2016

Climate Focus announces development of a Platform for Information, Dialogue and Coordination (PID) in support of the Colombian Government's Amazon Vision Program

Climate Focus and partners will work together to implement a Platform for Information, Dialogue and Coordination (PID) in support of the Colombian Government's Amazon Vision program 'Vision Amazonía'.
16 March 2016

Climate Focus announces publication of its report on the role of market mechanisms in the NDCs of Colombia, Mexico and Costa Rica (Spanish)

Climate Focus publishes report under its GIZ assignment to support the governments of Colombia, Mexico and Costa Rica in understanding the role of market mechanisms as a tool to help fulfil their NDCs
15 February 2016

COP21 Paris 2015 - Loss and Damage in the Paris Agreement and the Green Climate Fund and the Paris Agreement

Climate Focus is pleased to announce the publication of two client briefs presenting an assessment of what the Paris Agreement means for climate finance and for action on loss and damage going forward
08 February 2016

Invitation Dutch Night - 1 March in Amsterdam

The traditional Dutch Night offers an informal setting for everyone active in the carbon market to meet and mingle over a drink. We and our co-invitees very much look forward to seeing you there!
08 February 2016

Pointing Science: Climate Engineering - Views Onto a Man-Made Climate

Charlotte Streck joins other experts and laymen at a public event on climate engineering to debate and exchange views on where research can best provide sufficient information for societal decisions.