CETP countries cut fossil finance, but clean energy funding gaps persist
At the COP26 summit in 2021, 39 countries and public finance institutions pledged to end their financing of fossil fuels. A year after the deadline, the signatories appear to have made substantial progress in reducing their funding for oil and gas, according to a new report by IISD.
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