ASIA: Race for new climate finance goal heats up: Push for China, UAE to join donor pool

Germany advocated expanding climate finance contributors to include wealthy, high-emission countries like China and Saudi Arabia, emphasizing the need for increased funds to support developing nations. The aim is to enhance the collective finance pool while maintaining leadership and responsibility among developed countries.

Discussions on the new target for climate finance to be provided to developing countries, replacing the 2009 goal of $100 billion, continue to be the focus in the run up to the Baku round of the UN climate talks. Germnay, among the top contributors of climate finance, is along with other developed countries pushing for expanding the group of countries that are obligated to provide developing countries with climate finance. 

12 March 2024

CAREY OLSEN: Bermudian lawyer Yan-Xia Rogers returns home to join Carey Olsen

Press Release from Carey Olsen, Tuesday 12 March, 2024.  Carey Olsen is pleased to announce that Yan-Xia Rogers has returned home to Bermuda to join the firm’s corporate team. Yan-Xia will specialise

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20 January 2024

Guernsey Finance and DIFC Collaborate to Unlock Dynamic Economic Growth

Press Release from Guernsey Finance, Tuesday 16 January, 2024.  • The agreement fosters sustainable finance innovation within the two International Financial Centres• Collaboration supports investment

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14 August 2024

AUSTRIA: Austria aims to open up on bank secrecy within weeks

Austria aims to agree within weeks to give other European Union countries access to foreigners’ bank account details, Chancellor Werner Faymann said on Saturday, allowing the bloc to begin talks

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23 February 2024

MALTA: FATF lists three key issues Malta must fix to be taken off grey list

Malta must improve its implementation of three key anti-money laundering issues before it can be taken off a global watchdog’s financial crime grey list. The three points form part of an action plan

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