Boosting U.N. Efforts, NRDC Sees Biden Climate Finance Goal Within Reach

An international climate finance advocate is applauding the Biden administration for striving to achieve its pledge to reach $11.4 billion in annual international climate financial assistance despite limited direct appropriations from Congress, while arguing agencies should take further steps with discretionary funding to help meet the target. Progress on the administration’s climate finance target could bolster the odds for success at this year’s international climate conference in November in Azerbaijan, during which developed countries aim to craft an updated collective...