The 11th Technical Expert Dialogue of the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) is an important opportunity to agree on the qualitative elements of the post-2025 climate goal, including improving the quality of international climate finance flows to benefit of low and middle-income countries that already face disproportionate impacts of the climate and debt crisis.
Climate Finance
05 Sep 2024
03 Jun 2024
Debt demands & debunking distractions for climate action
Coordinated by thirty member organisations of the global Debt and Climate Working Group, this briefing is launched during the Bonn Climate Change Conference (3-13 June) and the 10th Technical Expert Dialogue for the process of establishing a new post-2025 climate finance goal.
- Climate Finance
23 Feb 2024
UN reaches global consensus on the road ahead towards a Tax Convention
#TaxJustice #UNTaxConvention #BlendedFinance #ClimateFinance #DebtJustice
- Climate Finance
22 Feb 2024
Blackmailing the global south on EU carbon border tax won't work
Eurodad's Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer Markus Trilling explains the negative effect of the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism' (CBAM) on countries in the global south.
This opinion piece was first published by the EU Observer here.
- Climate Finance
22 Feb 2024
Irresponsible lending prevents the global south from escaping the debt-climate trap
Most climate finance for countries in the global south is in the form of loans that come with high-interest payments. This blog, written by Eurodad's Iolanda Fresnillo and Leia Achampong, outlines the impact of climate finance loans and why grants are essential to global south countries implementing robust climate measures.
- Climate Finance
08 Feb 2024
Blended finance for climate action: Good value for money?
#BlendedFinance #ClimateFinance #DebtJustice #TaxJustice
- Climate Finance
14 Dec 2023
Debt swaps are not an effective instrument for reducing debt levels, says new research
#DebtSwaps #COP28 #Cancelthedebt #MakePollutersPay
- Climate Finance
08 Dec 2023
COP28 at a climate justice and human rights juncture
Human rights, equity and climate justice must guide all COPs. These principles are needed more than ever at COP28.
Written by Shereen Talaat (MENA Fem), Iolanda Fresnillo and Leia Achampong (Eurodad)
- Climate Finance
30 Nov 2023
Yanis Varoufakis, Thomas Picketty, Vanessa Nakate and leading experts call for debt cancellation at COP28
#DebtandClimate #COP28 #Cancelthedebt #UNTaxConvention #MakePollutersPay
- Climate Finance
13 Nov 2023
Gender-responsive climate finance: The key to just climate action and tackling inequalities
This expert paper, written by Eurodad's Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer for Climate Finance, Leia Achampong, looks at the gendered impacts of national and personal debt, and how this exacerbates inequalities, poverty and human rights.
The paper was presented at the UN Women CSW68 Expert Group Meeting.
- Climate Finance