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Liane Schalatek

liane.schalatek@us.boell.org

last contributed to D+C/E+Z in summer of 2019 as the associate director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation North America. The foundation is close to Germany’s Green Party.
 

All articles of Liane Schalatek

Climate finance
Liane Schalatek

Ambiguity instead of accountability

The international community urgently needs a clear definition of what exactly counts as climate finance

Green Climate Fund
Liane Schalatek

Signalling effect for global climate finance

The Green Climate Fund is important for implementing the Paris agreement

Climate finance
Liane Schalatek

Get ready for business

The Green Climate Fund aspires to be fully operational ahead of the climate summit in Paris in December

Multilateral institution
Liane Schalatek

Transformative potential

Several programmatic decisions that will guide the Green Climate Fund are promising

Global governance
Liane Schalatek
Smita Nakhooda

Slow, but steady progress

Green Climate Fund is making slow, but steady progress

New institution
Liane Schalatek

Time pressure on the Green Climate Fund

Time pressure on the Green Climate Fund

Multilateral politics
Liane Schalatek

Another opportunity

Ahead of the UN climate summit in Durban, the Green Climate Fund is taking shape

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Poverty Reduction

The first UN Sustainable Development Goal is to end poverty in all its forms everywhere.

SDG financing: how billions become trillions
Communal meals unite rich and poor
Biden’s interesting choice for the World Bank’s top job
High hopes abounded during Pope’s visit to South Sudan
Human trafficking on the rise

Gender Equality

In order to achieve gender equality, it is necessary to empower women and girls.

Women take on environmentally destructive ‘development’ projects
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Climate justice requires gender justice
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Governance

Achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require good governance – from the local to the global level.

Humankind needs more stringent environmental regulations
Protection for protesters by anonymity of the internet
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Abolishing the death penalty
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Sustainability

The UN Sustainable Development Goals aim to transform economies in an environmentally sound manner, leaving no one behind.

Humankind needs more stringent environmental regulations
Protection for protesters by anonymity of the internet
How to manage global risks effectively
Abolishing the death penalty
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