UN High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing

Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has co-chaired the UN Secretary-General’s High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing in poor countries. The group was established by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in February 2010, and is tasked with exploring alternatives for how to mobilise the funding that was agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Prime Minister Stoltenberg has co-chaired the group with Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.

In Copenhagen it was agreed that USD 100 billion would be mobilised annually by 2020 to fund climate-related measures in developing countries. The High-level Advisory Group is to propose various possibilities for how this goal can be reached, and on 5 November it submitted its report to the UN Secretary-General.

The members of the High-level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing represent both rich and poor countries. Heads of state, ministers and financial experts have provided advice to the group.

Read the report and more about the group on the UN’s website.