“Climate disruption is approaching a point of no return [...] We must act decisively to protect our planet from both the coronavirus and the existential threat of climate disruption.”
Climate Finance
27 Apr 2020
29 Jan 2020
Eurodad's priorities for 2020
2020 starts the ten-year countdown for the successful implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals. It is also a critical period for a just response to climate change, ensuring that those who are the least responsible do not pay the greatest price.
- Climate Finance
19 Dec 2019
Failure To Fly: Challenges and lessons learned from public-private partnerships in Tunisia
#DevelopmentFinance #PPPs #Tunisia #Argentina #EU #GreenDeal
- Climate Finance
10 Dec 2019
The right finance crucial to success of the EU’s Green New Deal
The new European Commission is sending a clear signal by tabling a “Green New Deal” within a month of its inception. But to be a true statement of intent rather than a mere public relations manoeuvre, it must speak to the urgency for action.
- Climate Finance
10 Oct 2019
A Global Green New Deal - a new UNCTAD report outlines a financing plan
#DevelopmentFinance #HeatlhPPPs #UniversalHealthCare #GreenNewDeal #EUParliament #BlendedFinance
- Climate Finance
10 Oct 2019
A Global Green New Deal – new UNCTAD report outlines a financing plan
The debate about a Green New Deal has recently been reinvigorated in both sides of the Atlantic. In Europe, the Green New Deal is part of the priorities of the European Commission’s President-elect Ursula von der Leyen. And at the UN in New York last month, sustainable development was featured in a series of global Summits, including the Climate Action Summit. In response, UNCTAD used the momentum to launch the 2019 edition of the Trade and Development Report (TDR) which analyses the new deal from a financing perspective, identifies constraints and outlines innovative financing options.
- Climate Finance
26 Sep 2019
CSO FfD Group (including Women’s Working Group on FfD) Declaration High Level Dialogue on Financing for Development (FfD)
Background
As the UN meets this September to discuss the climate crisis and sustainable development, it is evident that meaningful progress is only possible if world leaders commit to fix a broken global financial system. Those impacted the most by inaction as the world confronts the multiple crises at our doorsteps - financial crises,
debt crises, climate crisis, and crisis of multilateralism - are those at the bottom rung of structural inequality ladder. This is in violation of the fundamental principles of human rights, especially women’s rights and gender equality.
- Climate Finance
12 Sep 2019
A new European Commission: What are the implications for Development Finance in the next five years?
Following the European elections in May, former German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen has assumed the role of President-elect of the European Commission. In July, von der Leyen, the first woman to take this post, released a concept paper titled “A Union that strives for more” and on Tuesday this week she unveiled the names of the new Commissioners. And with these releases, the policy agenda of the next European Commission, mandated to govern until 2024, is slowly taking shape. In response, we ask what are the implications for development finance?
- Development Finance
24 Apr 2019
Eurodad in Action at the UN Financing for Development Forum
The United Nations convened in New York last week for the Financing for Development Forum. While the outcome document has been negotiated in advance, the Forum itself offered lots of opportunities to discuss what change we need to finance the sustainable development goals.
- Publicly-backed Private Finance
13 Dec 2018
G20 Summit in Buenos Aires: A non-event amidst citizen protests
When the global financial crisis broke, the world looked to the G20 to find solutions. But as G20 leaders recently gathered in Buenos Aires 10 years on for their 2018 Summit, it was all too clear that ‘too big to fail banks’ have grown even bigger while we’re stuck with a vastly expanded shadow banking industry and a very worrying new wave of debt crises. Even though the G20 consider themselves to be the world’s major body for economic policy coordination, they are sleepwalking into the next crisis.
- Climate Finance