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Debt Justice
Why do we need a Framework Convention on Sovereign Debt?
- Debt Justice
- Debt Resolution
COP29 and the NCQG: linking climate, debt and gender justice
The conclusion of the ongoing negotiations for the post-2025 climate goal is top of the agenda at COP29 this week in Baku, Azerbaijan. Civil society is calling on global north leaders to deliver a binding commitment, strive to re-establish trust, and recognise the owed climate debt to the global south.
- Gender Justice
- DEAR
Debt swaps won’t save us: the urgent need for debt cancellation and grant-based climate finance
Debt swaps for climate and conservation goals have experienced a resurgence in recent years. As COP29 negotiations kick off, they are presented as a dual solution for debt and climate issues, however they fall short in practice and pose risks that threaten to harm global south countries and communities. This briefing explains why instead of debt swaps, we need urgent debt cancellation and grant-based climate finance.
- Climate Finance
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UN framework convention on sovereign debt - Building a new debt architecture for economic justice
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- Debt Justice
The IMF and World Bank at 80: Nothing to celebrate
This week's Annual Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank - during which the institutions have marked their 80th anniversary - has ended in an anticlimax.
- Publicly-backed Private Finance
- IFIs
G20, IMF and World Bank kick the can down the road and fail to deliver solutions to the worst debt crisis ever - CSOs react
This week G20 finance ministers, the IMF and the World Bank have again failed to take any meaningful action to deal with the deepening global debt crisis, continuing to term it ‘short-term liquidity challenges’.
- Debt Justice
- IFIs
New paper: European civil society urges UN-negotiated way out of debt crises
- Call comes as IMF and G20 fail to take action despite worst ever debt crisis in the global south
- New paper published today calls on world leaders to focus on discussing reforms at UN Financing for Development process
- Debt Justice
- Debt Resolution
UN framework convention on sovereign debt - Building a new debt architecture for economic justice
Amidst a new global south debt crisis, the debt architecture reform agenda cannot wait any longer. The Fourth UN International Financing for Development Conference (FfD4) is a key milestone to open an intergovernmental process towards the debt architecture reform that global south countries need.
- Debt Justice

Reflections ahead of the 2024 Annual Meetings: is a “Future-Ready” World Bank Group just another buzzword?
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- Development Finance