The Compromiso de Sevilla falls short of the ambition needed to address the worsening debt and climate crises, poverty and inequalities in the global south.

This blog first appeared on POLITICO Europe.

Over 200 civil society organisations are urging European leaders to commit to a transformative and ambitious agenda of financial architecture reform at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development.

Written by Christina Fenandez-Duran (Oxfam Interim Head of EU Office), Javier García de la Oliva (Head of Country Engagement and Transformation Europe and Americas at ActionAid International) and Jean Saldanha (Director at the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad)).

Read the piece in full on EU Observer

Fifty days ahead of the 4th UN Financing for Development Conference (FfD4), a coalition of nine EU NGOs are launching the campaign “Era of Justice” to show how the multiple crises our world is living are deeply interconnected and to call on governments to take decisive action.

Recommendations to tackle inequalities in India and Indonesia, as well as at global level. 

The status and drivers of economic inequalities within and between countries – with specific examples from India and Indonesia

This paper intends to build on the sustainable development mandate for international tax cooperation as laid down in articles 9.d) and 10.c) of the Terms of Reference for a UN Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UN FCITC). The framework convention brings the potential to introduce progressive environmental tax measures at a global scale, but must be anchored on strong and clear principles to ensure tax and environmental justice.

• UN Member states clarify decision-making rules ahead of negotiating the substance of the new Convention
• New rules will prevent any single Member States from blocking negotiations