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Ahead of this week’s meeting of the trust funds of the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds, 100 groups have called for the CIFs to finally sunset, now that the Green Climate Fund is clearly operational. Two-thirds of the groups are from developing countries.
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Here’s The Letter.
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June 14, 2016
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Dear Trust Fund Committee Members of the Strategic Climate Fund and Clean Technology Fund:
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Now that it has approved projects and is beginning to disburse money, the Green Climate Fund is clearly operational. It is thus also unambiguously clear that it is time for the World Bank’s Climate Investment Funds to sunset.
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Since their inception, the CIFs were meant to be interim funds. In 2008, the sunset clauses of the Strategic Climate Fund and the Clean Technology Fund said, “…the SCF will take necessary steps to conclude its operations once a new [UNFCCC] financial architecture is effective…” and “the CTF will take necessary steps to conclude its operations once a new [UNFCCC] financial architecture is effective.”[1] That new financial architecture – the Green Climate Fund – is now indisputably effective. The CIFs’ raison d’etre has expired; attempts to reinterpret the obvious must cease.
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Unlike the multilateral development bank-driven CIFs, the GCF was set up according to the principles of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. With a governance structure evenly split between developed and developing countries, the GCF is founded on a “country-driven approach” accountable to the institutions and people in developing countries, and has placed a premium on direct access to funds by developing country entities. The GCF promotes a gender-sensitive approach to its funding – the first climate fund to do so from the outset of its activities.
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While lessons learned from the CIFs should be applied to the GCF, efforts to spin the CIFs as complementary to the GCF are disingenuous. Resources directed toward the CIFs are resources that should instead be directed to the GCF. Any effort to raise new sources of finance for the CIFs should cease immediately, and there should be no new investments.
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Thank you for your consideration.
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Sincerely,
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11.11.11-Coalition of the Flemish North-South Movement, Belgium
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ActionAid International
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Aksi for Gender, Social and Ecological Justice, Indonesia
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All Nepal Peasants Federation, Nepal
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All Nepal Women’s Association, Nepal
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Alliance Sud, Switzerland
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Alyansa Tigil Mina (Alliance Against Mining), Philippines
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Aniban ng Manggagawa sa Agrikultura, Philippines
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Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development, Thailand
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Asian Peoples Movement on Debt and Development, Regional
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ATTAC Japan
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BankTrack, Netherlands
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Beyond Beijing Committee, Nepal
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Both ENDS, Netherlands
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Bretton Woods Project, United Kingdom
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Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino, Philippines
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Campaign for Climate Justice, Nepal
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Carbon Market Watch, Belgium
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Center for Biological Diversity, United States
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Center for Environment, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Center for Popular Democracy, United States
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Center for Socio-Economic Research and Development, Nepal
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Centre for 21st century Issues (C21st), Nigeria
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Centre for Social Impact Studies, Ghana
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Centre pour l’Environnement et le Développement, Cameroon
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Centro Humboldt, Nicaragua
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Centro Salvadoreño de Tecnologia Apropiada/Friends of the Earth El Salvador
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Christian Aid, United Kingdom
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Civic Concern Nepal
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Climate Action Network Europe, Regional
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Climate Change & Development NGO Alliance, Azerbaijan
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Climate Finance Group for Latin America and the Caribbean (GFLAC), Mexico
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CNCD-11.11.11, Belgium
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Consumers Protection Association, Lesotho
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Digo Bikas Institute, Nepal
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Ecological Christian Organisation, Uganda
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Ecological Society of the Philippines
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Environics Trust, India
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Farmers Forum South Asia, Regional
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Finance & Trade Watch, Austria
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Food & Water Watch, United States
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Foundation HELP, Tanzania
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Freedom from Debt Coalition, Philippines
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Friends of the Earth – England, Wales and Northern Ireland
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Friends of the Earth United States
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Gender Action, United States
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Global Catholic Climate Movement Pilipinas, Philippines
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Green Development Advocates, Cameroon
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Haburas Foundation/ Friends of the Earth Timor Leste
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Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America
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Himalaya Niti Abhiyan, India
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Human Rights Alliance Nepal
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Indian Social Action Forum, India
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Indigenous Environmental Network, United States/International
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Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, United States
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Institute for Policy Studies, Climate Policy Program, United States
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Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), Regional
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International.Lawyers.Org, Switzerland
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Jagaran Nepal
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Jamaa Resource Initiatives, Kenya
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Jeunes Volontaires pour l’Environnement, Niger
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Kitanglad Integrated NGOs, Inc., Philippines
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Korea Federation for Environmental Movements, South Korea
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KRuHA – Peoples Coalition on Water, Indonesia
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Labour, Health and Human Rights Development Centre, Nigeria
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LDC Watch, International
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Leads Nigeria
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Les Amis de la Terre France
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Migrant Forum in Asia, Regional
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National Coastal Women’s Movement, India
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National Hawkers Federation, India
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National Women Peasants Association, Nepal
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Nepal Youth Peasants Association, Nepal
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Nigerian Conservation Foundation, Nigeria
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NOAH Friends of the Earth Denmark
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PALAG Mindanao, Philippines
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Panay Rural Development Center, Inc., Philippines
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Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, Philippines
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Philippine Network for Rural Development and Democratization, Philippines
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Policy Analysis and Research Institute of Lesotho
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Population, Health, Environment Ethiopia Consortium, Ethiopia
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Practical Action, United Kingdom
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Reacción Climática, Bolivia
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River Basin Friends, India
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Rural Reconstruction Nepal
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Sahabat Alam Malaysia/Friends of the Earth Malaysia
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Sanlakas Philippines
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Solidaritas Perempuan, Indonesia
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South Asia Alliance for Poverty Eradication, Regional
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South Asia Food Sovereignty Network, Regional
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South Asia Peasants Coalition, Regional
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Southern Oregon Climate Action Now, United States
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Students for a Just and Stable Future, United States
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SustainUS, United States
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Third World Network, Malaysia
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Trade Union Policy Institute of Nepal
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VOICE Bangladesh
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WomanHealth Philippines
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Women Welfare Society, Nepal
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Worldview-The Gambia
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[1] http://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/cif/sites/climateinvestmentfunds.org/files/Strategic_Climate_Fund_final.pdf; http://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/cif/sites/climateinvestmentfunds.org/files/Clean_Technology_Fund_paper_June_9_final.pdf
Source: https://foe.org/2016-06-100-groups-call-for-climate-investment-funds-to-suns/
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[1] http://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/cif/sites/climateinvestmentfunds.org/files/Strategic_Climate_Fund_final.pdf; http://www.climateinvestmentfunds.org/cif/sites/climateinvestmentfunds.org/files/Clean_Technology_Fund_paper_June_9_final.pdf
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