The pledging conference for the Green Climate Fund’s first replenishment is rapidly approaching, and the time has come for countries to announce a new round of contributions to the GCF. But what is an appropriate level for countries to pledge to refill the Fund’s coffers? Learn more at: https://www.wri.org/events/2019/09/webinar-wri-green-climate-fund-calculator
1. Image: Sonata | Japanese Wikipedia
Green Climate Fund: THE
ROAD TO REPLENISHMENT
How much should my country
contribute to GCF?
Webinar on WRI's GCF Contribution Calculator 2.0
Jacob Waslander, Joe Thwaites , LihuanZhou and Julie Bos
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3. THE GREEN CLIMATE FUND
• $10.3 billion
pledged
• $5.2 billion
committed
• $565 million
disbursed
Image: Mark Garten | UN Photo
• 111 projects
• 99 countries
• 310 million people
• 1.5 billion tonnes CO2
• Largest international
climate fund
• Strong
representation and
an equal voice form
recipients and
contributors
4. STRONG REPLENISHMENT OF
THE GCF IS NEEDED NOW
Image: Rick Bajornas | UN Photo
Mandate and objective to support climate action
• Refilling the GCF’s coffers
• October 2019: pledging conference
for the first replenishment
• 5 countries already announced
pledges
• The GCF Calculator is a tool to see
what countries should contribute
5. SUCCESSFUL AND AMBITIOUS REPLENISHMENT
Fair share
Percentages
Image: Melissa Cooperman | IFPRI
Contributors:
Predictability of resources
Developing countries:
strategize and plan their
investments.
6. INDICATIVE MINIMUM THRESHOLD FORMULA
Average of the share of:
• Gross national income, averaged over the past six
years
• Cumulative GHG emissions, averaged data since
1850 and since 1990
Scaled up or down based on whether GHG emissions
per capita are above or below the average emissions
of sample group.
Go to WRI's working paper for methodological and
theoretical elaboration
Image: Wallpoper | Wikipedia
11. HOW MUCH SHOULD MY COUNTRY CONTRIBUTE?
Will the
Netherlands
become an
ambition
leader?
12. SHOW YOUR COUNTRY HOW MUCH THEY
SHOULD CONTRIBUTE
1. Go to the GCF calculator:
https://www.wri.org/resources/data-
visualizations/green-climate-fund-contributions-
calculator-20
2. Calculate how much your country should
contribute
3. Tell them by sharing the results:
13. OTHER GCF
CALCULATORS: OXFAM
Link to oxfam calculator:
https://www.germanclimatefinance.de/2019/05/13/wi
ll-pledges-green-climate-fund-match-expectations/
Speaker: Kiri Hanks