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It provides grants to charity organisations in the United Kingdom and internationally. Grantee organisations vary in focus but fall under the umbrella of one of the fund's designated funding themes. The fund was founded by King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, in 1979. At King Charles III's accession, the fund adopted its new name.
Climate finance is "finance that aims at reducing emissions, and enhancing sinks of greenhouse gases and aims at reducing vulnerability of, and maintaining and increasing the resilience of, human and ecological systems to negative climate change impacts", as defined by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Standing Committee on Finance.
The school carries out research at the carbon neutral laboratory, which is the first of its kind in the UK. [2] The construction was majority funded by GlaxoSmithKline , as part of their commitment to green chemistry first announced in 2010, [ 3 ] and saw a grant of £12 million provided to the project.
The goal of the department was "to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty". DFID was headed by the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for International Development . The position was last held by Anne-Marie Trevelyan , who assumed office on 13 February 2020 and served until the department was dissolved on 2 September 2020.
The Software Sustainability Institute is a national facility for building better software based in the UK and founded in 2010. The Institute is based at the University of Edinburgh ( EPCC formerly Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre) with sites at the University of Manchester , the University of Oxford and the University of Southampton .
During 2017 the use of the acronym STP shifted, so that it was used to signify sustainability and transformation partnerships. [2] In February 2018 it was announced that these organisations were in future to be called integrated care systems, and that all 44 sustainability and transformation plans would be expected to progress in this direction. [3]
In 2021, the European Investment Bank was the leading issuer of green and sustainability bonds among multilateral development banks, with sustainability funding reaching €11.5 billion equivalent. [30] [31] As of at least 2017, China held the largest share (23%) of the green bond market. [32]: 88
From 2013 to 2020 the EU's European Research Council assigned to UK scientists €1.7bn in grants, more than any other country. [26] Horizon 2020 provided grants to research and innovation projects through open and competitive calls for proposals. Legal entities from any country were eligible to submit project proposals to these calls.