We have a thing for cool song-related titles at @eurodad lately. After "Sleep now in the fire",👉read our new report to find out why SIDS' and their 65 million population's future is at stake, facing both the climate and the debt crisis on the frontline.
https://t.co/7H307ZW66k
Join us today at 2pm CET for the presentation of UNCTAD's latest report on the most anticipated outcome of COP 29.
👉Register here: https://t.co/MXWhtwVMr6
At #COP29, leaders will set a new goal to help developing countries build climate resilience.
A new @UNCTAD report shows they will need around $900 billion in climate funding from 2025.
Explore the publication: https://t.co/Gd6L4jKcXr
At #COP29, leaders will set a new goal to help developing countries build climate resilience.
A new @UNCTAD report shows they will need around $900 billion in climate funding from 2025.
Explore the publication: https://t.co/Gd6L4jKcXr
The global economy, strained by crises & climate change, is stuck in slow growth & weak investment.
We must:
▶️Rethink global development strategies
▶️Reform the international financial system
▶️Revive multilateralism
@UN 2024 Trade & Development Report: https://t.co/GhqR1KMrqW
Let’s take stock of this evening in #Georgia, which feels like a scene from Waiting for Godot.
Quick reaction: #GeVote2024 preliminary results are a total mess, and nothing is clear yet.
🧵1/10
Private lenders are raking in BILLIONS – and much more than other lenders – after debt negotiations are finalised
Our research in the FT today shows private lenders are doing the bare minimum to get countries out of debt crisis
https://t.co/eRZjjSEdXa
https://t.co/67VSdN9zH7
What’s driving the EU’s #GlobalGateway - development goals or geopolitical interests❓🤔
Our new report with @Counter_Balance and @oxfamEU uncovers many answers.
Read the report ➡️ https://t.co/StO0Fl4iXt
A 🧵 with key findings ⤵️
“African countries borrow at rates up to 8 times higher than Germany and 4 times higher than the United States. It’s a Marshall Plan in reverse, in which the poorest finance the richest.”
@LulaOficial at #UNGA
Our #debt expert @ifresnillo is @jdauchy's latest guest on her #SovereignDebt podcast.
🎧Listen to their in-depth discussion on #DebtSwaps ➡️https://t.co/lBfZHJ8L43
And for an even deeper look, read her briefing ➡️https://t.co/oAEJJwv6kk #DebtSwaps cannot replace #DebtReform!
Thrilled to release this report commissioned by the Brazilian G20 Presidency today
Just like we have a minimum tax on multinationals, we need a minimum tax on the world's super-rich—and it has become technically feasible
🧵with the main findings and proposals
#Persone#migranti, un'altra strage di bambini. Ce n’erano almeno 26 sulla barca naufragata nello #Ionio
(la vignetta di febbraio 2023, dopo la strage di #Cutro)
Se state attenti li sentite.
The problem also concerns the climate emergency. Every fraction of a degree matters, every penny invested in climate action counts. Yet, developing countries are currently spending more on interest than investments on climate action.
1/8.⚠️USEFUL INFO: The @WorldBank tells us their Executive Directors have approved the Bank’s role as interim secretariat host and trustee of the #LossAndDamage Fund. This is the first procedural hurdle. Now the Bank must meet the conditions in the #COP28 decision. 🧵
Minouche Shafik wrote a 2021 book - 'What we owe each other' - where she proposes a reset of the social contract to improve intergenerational fairness.
Then she went to Columbia and brought a notoriously violent police force into that social contract