Erasmus generation and @AFScostarica | Former Debt Justice @Eurodad, now Climate & Development @UNCTAD 🇺🇳 She/her | Views my own
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We have a thing for cool song-related titles at @eurodad lately. After "Sleep now in the fire",👉read our new report to find out why SIDS' and their 65 million population's future is at stake, facing both the climate and the debt crisis on the frontline.
bit.ly/3T7PC8n
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Participez à notre side event à la #COP29 - « Achieving tax, debt and climate justice ».
📆 11 novembre, 12h30 (ou 15h30 à Bakou)
📍 BENELUX-EIB Pavilion
🎤 Intervenants : @rebecca_thissen, @thibaut_carine, @edwinNamakanga, @lnacpil
💻 Livestream : youtube.com/live/doT1H5cTewA…
Join us today at 2pm CET for the presentation of UNCTAD's latest report on the most anticipated outcome of COP 29.
👉Register here: shorturl.at/699L1
At #COP29, leaders will set a new goal to help developing countries build climate resilience.
A new @UNCTAD report shows they will need around $900 billion in climate funding from 2025.
Explore the publication: ow.ly/CrvR50TZ7Fi
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At #COP29, leaders will set a new goal to help developing countries build climate resilience.
A new @UNCTAD report shows they will need around $900 billion in climate funding from 2025.
Explore the publication: ow.ly/CrvR50TZ7Fi
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The global economy, strained by crises & climate change, is stuck in slow growth & weak investment.
We must:
▶️Rethink global development strategies
▶️Reform the international financial system
▶️Revive multilateralism
@UN 2024 Trade & Development Report: unctad.org/tdr2024
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Let’s take stock of this evening in #Georgia, which feels like a scene from Waiting for Godot.
Quick reaction: #GeVote2024 preliminary results are a total mess, and nothing is clear yet.
🧵1/10
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Private lenders are raking in BILLIONS – and much more than other lenders – after debt negotiations are finalised
Our research in the FT today shows private lenders are doing the bare minimum to get countries out of debt crisis
debtjustice.org.uk/canceldeb…
ft.com/content/7eda2874-1f8a…
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What’s driving the EU’s #GlobalGateway - development goals or geopolitical interests❓🤔
Our new report with @Counter_Balance and @oxfamEU uncovers many answers.
Read the report ➡️ ow.ly/aKQO50TGOKg
A 🧵 with key findings ⤵️
ALT Who profits from the Global Gateway? The EU's new strategy for development cooperation
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“African countries borrow at rates up to 8 times higher than Germany and 4 times higher than the United States. It’s a Marshall Plan in reverse, in which the poorest finance the richest.”
@LulaOficial at #UNGA
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Thread of the most surreal villages on Earth 🧵
1. Marpissa in Paros, Greece
ALT 📸: minogiannisvalantis
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Il Presidente #Mattarella 🇮🇹 saluta gli atleti italiani durante la cerimonia di apertura delle #Olimpiadi di #Parigi2024
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Our #debt expert @ifresnillo is @jdauchy's latest guest on her #SovereignDebt podcast.
🎧Listen to their in-depth discussion on #DebtSwaps ➡️open.spotify.com/episode/36w…
And for an even deeper look, read her briefing ➡️ow.ly/JXQ450Sy1q8 #DebtSwaps cannot replace #DebtReform!
ALT Debt for nature swaps will not solve the multiple crises facing global south countries What is not working? * Not enough debt cancellation * Not additional to ODA or climate finance * Transaction costs are very high What is concerning? * Use of tax havens * No comparability of treatment * Greenwashing risks What can be improved? * Increase transparency * More & better civil society participation * Ensure country ownership Debt swaps cannot replace urgently needed structural reforms, or distract from existing commitments! To view this infographic on canva. https://www.canva.com/design/DAGEi1iUeT8/XZ0-BzsQ4OfjpnVkUoErkA/view
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Thrilled to release this report commissioned by the Brazilian G20 Presidency today
Just like we have a minimum tax on multinationals, we need a minimum tax on the world's super-rich—and it has become technically feasible
🧵with the main findings and proposals
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Thread on alternative views of iconic landmarks you (probably) haven’t seen before 🧵
1. The worn steps of the Tower of Pisa
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The problem also concerns the climate emergency. Every fraction of a degree matters, every penny invested in climate action counts. Yet, developing countries are currently spending more on interest than investments on climate action.
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1/8.⚠️USEFUL INFO: The @WorldBank tells us their Executive Directors have approved the Bank’s role as interim secretariat host and trustee of the #LossAndDamage Fund. This is the first procedural hurdle. Now the Bank must meet the conditions in the #COP28 decision. 🧵
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Each year, governments lose roughly US$480 billion to #TaxAbuse by big companies and rich people.
📢Tell #EUElections candidates to commit to tackling #tax dodging in the European Parliament & sign the #PledgeforTaxJustice!
taxpledge.eu #TaxJustice #EuropeanElections
ALT An election ballot with the word "Vote" is placed through the slot of a ballot box. The box is see through and about 1/5 full off similar slips of paper. Behind the box is the EU flag.
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Minouche Shafik wrote a 2021 book - 'What we owe each other' - where she proposes a reset of the social contract to improve intergenerational fairness.
Then she went to Columbia and brought a notoriously violent police force into that social contract
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#25aprile #Liberazione
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