The climate ‘fiscal cliff’: An evaluation of Fast Start Finance and lessons for the future

After a year of extreme weather, developing countries face a climate ‘fiscal cliff’ at the end of 2012. This report argues that developed nations must scale up climate finance from 2013, consider innovative proposals to raise public climate finance, and make pledges to the Green Climate Fund that otherwise will remain an empty shell for the third year in a row

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The climate fiscal cliff Oxfam Media Briefing Note FINAL EMBARGOED UNTIL 0001 DOHA TIME 25112012.pdf