Green Climate Fund: Time to grow up

Everyone should be aware (though few are) of the mysterious GCF, an institution set up to change how we have been operating for over 200 years, by financing and accelerating the world’s shift away from oil, gas and coal towards clean energy economies and lifestyles.

This mammoth undertaking, underpinned by a stated goal of channelling, via the GCF, $100 billion a year into climate-friendly investments, was backed by the 2005 Paris climate agreement, the commitment by 185 countries to tackle the climate change bomb threatening our existence.

The search firm asking me for advice, Perrett Laver, didn’t follow up and disappeared into the internet anonymity it briefly sprang out of. Here are four thoughts on the future of the GCF I would have shared.