Angela Yeh, Climate and Energy Project Officer at
Delta Electronics Foundation
It has been almost a hundred days since the Paris deal was adopted – what has changed since the relative success of COP21? Are we rerouting to a trajectory that is not destined to self-destruction? Evidently, a three-month grace period offers only a peek into the changes and the potential changes post-Paris – nevertheless, the following efforts have taken place around the world:
In early March, the G20 meeting convened in Shanghai, where leaders of the worlds’ largest economies discussed, among many other things, the commitment to and implementations on green investment. The definition of green investment, though ambiguous, encompasses anything from renewables, energy efficiency, sustainable transportation to fossil fuel subsidy reform. Collectively, major economies pledged a staggering amount of 90 billion USD over the next decade on climate-related financing.
