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On the urgent need for debt cancellation

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.

Debt swaps won’t save us: the urgent need for debt cancellation and grant-based climate finance – Eurodad

Why did Trump win?

It has so much to do with the major topic of this website …

Why Did Trump Really Win? It’s Simple, Actually. – Mother Jones

Trump’s war on planet Earth

and how to stop it with a progressive revolution…

Trump has pledged to wage war on planet Earth – and it will take a progressive revolution to stop him | George Monbiot | The Guardian

World Inequality still Rising

Despite earlier income convergence among nations, many low-income countries (LICs) and people are falling further behind. Worse, the number of poor and hungry has been increasing again after declining for decades.

World Inequality Still Rising Despite Some Convergence | Inter Press Service

The Draghi Report and Social Investments

A vast untapped potential for improving economic progress and social well-being across the EU needs to be unlocked through social investment.

Why social investment holds the key to delivering on the Draghi report

Finding Philanthropy’s Forgotten Founder

Philanthropy is not just about giving, but about fixing the inequalities that make giving necessary

Finding Philanthropy’s Forgotten Founder – The Atlantic

The IMF has lost its way

says even Foreign Policy, with 5 easy reasonable fixes…

The IMF Has Lost Its Way

UN Framework Convention on Sovereign Debt

A Reform Agenda for the Upcoming 4th International Conference on Financing for Development

02_debt-architecture-summary-final-WEB.pdf

Billionaires vs Democracy

Billionaires are buying elections, all over the world, without changing institutions but throwing democracy in the dustbin

Billionaires vs Democracy – Inequality.org

BWI annual meetings: another missed opportunity

A reform path without linking up to the UN consensus on the future and on development.

Annual Meetings 2024 Wrap-up – Don’t look back: BWIs plough down path of reforms lacking evidence and willingness to engage with broader UN-led reform processes – Bretton Woods Project

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