{"id":114,"date":"2018-04-20T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/?p=114"},"modified":"2018-04-25T14:16:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T14:16:36","slug":"what-is-climate-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/2018\/04\/20\/what-is-climate-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Climate Finance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><strong><em>&#8220;Climate-smart finance is critical to fighting poverty and meeting development goals.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 -The World Bank<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-115 alignright\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\" src=\"http:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/04\/Coins-image-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/04\/Coins-image-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2018\/04\/Coins-image.jpg 625w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have been reviewing literature and resources to learn all I can about climate finance.<span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0An interesting learning this week is that there is not an agreed upon definition of climate finance. However,\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/topic\/climatefinance\">The World Bank<\/a><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">\u00a0provides an excellent overview about climate finance and its projects to help countries adapt to a changing\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">climate and mitigate the impacts of climate change. I discovered this useful definition of climate finance developed by The World Bank<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem\">: &#8220;the flows of capital from both public and private sources that support and finance climate-smart investments and aim to achieve climate change adaptation and mitigation objectives.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Climate-smart finance is critical to fighting poverty and meeting development goals.&#8221;\u00a0 -The World Bank I have been reviewing literature and resources to learn all I can about climate finance.\u00a0An interesting learning this week is that there is not an agreed upon definition of climate finance. However,\u00a0The World Bank\u00a0provides an excellent overview about climate finance and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/2018\/04\/20\/what-is-climate-finance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is Climate Finance?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantagbiosciences.org\/people\/christine-costelloe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}