Duncan Pruett @duncan.re-course.org on Bluesky

Executive Director of Recourse, which works to put people and planet at the heart of development. Based in Amsterdam. Tweets are my own.

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

Join us for a webinar unpacking how IMF policy reviews, global debt dynamics, and multilateral processes like #FFD4 and #COP30 are shaping climate action and financial reform in 2026.

🗓 19 Feb
⏰ 8am EST | 2pm CET | 4pm EAT | 6:30pm IST
🔗 Register: https://t.co/CLNRIRPeHA

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

Climate, gender & rights commitments at international financial institutions came under heavy fire in 2025, while civil society & affected communities kept up the struggle for justice.

Read our reflections in this blog:
https://t.co/t5SB5dLWXa

[Power Shift Africa @PowerShftAfrica]

To make just transition happen we need public finance backing, systemic economic reform, and a clear roadmap to end fossil fuels.”
— Friederike Strub, @RecourseTeam

COP30 delivered a major win: the creation of the Belém Action Mechanism on Just Transition. But a mechanism is only as strong as the systems that fund it. And this is where the alarm bells ring.

Multilateral development banks, expected to finance just transition efforts, still channel billions into fossil fuels. Also, 73% of their climate finance comes as loans, not grants, often tied to austerity.

A just transition cannot be built on debt nor coexist with fossil expansion. And it cannot succeed without public finance, economic reform, and a fossil fuel phase-out roadmap that countries can reliably follow.

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

The rules of our global economy are not laws of nature: they were made by people, and people can change them.

Reforming global economic governance is key to meeting climate & biodiversity targets.

Read more 🔗 https://t.co/hGPhX4hFhE
Join the event at #COP30 today (see flyer)

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

Country climate plans are failing to protect forests or reduce emissions ⚠️

Why? Global financial rules which push governments to expand extractive sectors & fossil fuels, undermining people's rights & real climate action.

More in the Land Gap report: https://t.co/hGPhX4hFhE
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[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

📍 Recourse is at #COP30

With partners @farnargentina & networks @bigshiftglobal, @CANIntl, @gcdcj

We're reminding multilateral development banks that there's no time for false solutions in the transition to a just, clean, renewable energy future

👋 DM for analysis & quotes

[Insify @insify]

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[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

Only 4 years ago, @IMFNews recognised that climate change poses risks to macroeconomic stability.

It cannot be ignored.

Our new report shows how and why the #IMF can't give up on climate, with recommendations for its Surveillance review.

👉 https://t.co/CzwoPbTojT #IMFmeetings

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

💸 The latest #ClimateFinance figures from multilateral development banks are out — but they don’t add up for developing countries.

Read reactions from finance & accountability experts in @bigshiftglobal and @CANIntl ⬇️

https://t.co/0MCuC5OgyA #MDBs #COP30

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

"The African Climate Summit showed Africa’s resources and ambition —now accountability and delivery must follow, because climate justice demands real finance and real action.

"We cannot solve a crisis we did not cause with loans that deepen debt."

📣Rajneesh Bhuee as #ACS2 ends

[Duncan Pruett @duncan.re-course.org on Bluesky @dmtpruett]

My @RecourseTeam colleague @FriederikeStrub in @devex echoing much justified civil society frustration at #ffd4

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

“European countries blocked transformative solutions that would have truly shifted power away from the institutions they control (like the #IMF, #G20 etc)...”

📣 Friederike Strub comments on the #FfD4 Seville Platform for Action, in @devex

https://t.co/ujgcqHPQ97 #FfD4People

[Duncan Pruett @duncan.re-course.org on Bluesky @dmtpruett]

A powerful response to an outrageous approach

[Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism @cs_ffd]

“It is our job to bring life, color, democracy and legitimacy to this process.” @toveryding Speaking truth to power on the lack of space for Civil Society participation in the #FfD4 Conference 🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪#Ffd4People

[Eurodad @eurodad]

We're here in Sevilla at #FfD4 to tell European leaders to stop 🚫 defending the status quo! They cannot be let off the hook.
The global economic system is deeply unfair. We need Europe and the global north to back transformative change and an #EraOfJustice.
#FfD4People

[Climate Action Network International (CAN) @CANIntl]

#SB62 outcome - Climate Action Network response:

Civil society’s #JustTransition priorities were officially tabled in the UN climate process in Bonn, thanks to relentless pressure from social movements, workers, and frontline communities. Now to #COP30!

https://t.co/1SUCwAWNaQ

[Bronwen Tucker 🍉 @bronwentucker]

At NY climate week in 2022, a senior person working in philanthropy said to me "we need to figure out how to get the climate movement stoked to push JPMorganChase to finance more windmills." It's been haunting me ever since, so we wrote a report and it's in the @FT (!) 🧵

[Alison Doig @AlisonDoig]

I am talking about our Banking on Renewables campaign at this. Exposing MDB investments in false 'clean' solutions and promoting a way forward for funding real people centres energy solutions

[Mizzima News @MizzimaNews]

#Airbus cuts ties with #China’s #AviChina, in victory for #Myanmar rights campaign
Read More : https://t.co/8INWkPLDgz

[Duncan Pruett @duncan.re-course.org on Bluesky @dmtpruett]

Come and join the wonderful @RecourseTeam

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

⭐Join our remote team⭐

We are hiring a Campaign Manager to focus on sustainable renewables in the just energy transition.

It's an exciting role involving research, advocacy, teamwork and collaboration with partners around the world.

Details: https://t.co/6Dgq6rPuzf #NGOjobs

[Duncan Pruett @duncan.re-course.org on Bluesky @dmtpruett]

Check out my @RecourseTeam colleague Raj explaining the problems with financing fossil gas infrastructure and how the @ADB_HQ keeps doing it.

[Recourse | @re-course.org on Bluesky @RecourseTeam]

Despite the @ADB_HQ's commitment global climate goals, its technical assistance is still supporting #FossilGas—a highly polluting fossil fuel that is risky for economies, communities and the environment.

📽️@raj_bhuee #ADBAnnualMeeting
📃Read the briefing https://t.co/TounkMf7yG

[Emma Burgisser @EmmaBurgisser]

Listening to country after country in global South demanding IMF governance and SDR reform, i.e. the fundamentals of the institution at #FfD4

@IMF_atUN are you listening? Or are all these countries still misunderstanding how the IMF works?