Fellowship opportunity at Climate Tracker 🙌

And the Preparatory Committee for #SIDS4 so decided. The Draft Outcome Document titled Charting the Course Toward Resilient Prosperity in Small Island Developing States was adopted by acclamation! Congrats & gratitude to all who brought the SIDS4 process to this point Antigua & Barbuda NY…

Terrific, really well-researched piece in Guardian news today about the #sargassum challenge in the Caribbean

theguardian.com/environment/20…

As I said in this ODI podcast, Small Island Developing States #SIDS need the Center of Excellence 2b launched at #SIDS 4 to strengthen data technology & analytical capacities and tailor development cooperation to their special case. Academia, CSOs, investor community &…

Will #SIDS4 generate ‘resilient prosperity’?

In Ep.6 of #SmallIslandsBigPicture , guests look ahead to the upcoming 4th UN International Conference on Small Island Developing States: buff.ly/4aopUFR

Antigua & Barbuda NY @uninsamoa UN DESA Sustainable Development Simona Marinescu UNOPS Emily Wilkinson

A week to go until ODI Day at the #SpringMeetings ! 🗓️

Join us on 17 April, in Washington or online, for a series of events on pressing development finance challenges.

Our North America Exec Director Andrew Herscowitz explains what we have lined up.

Register: buff.ly/3vOy7nA

Tony Payne on the politics of embedding a new economic consensus for Renewal - an optimistic response to Rachel Reeves's Mais lecture

renewal.org.uk/the-politics-o…

*New podcast out now!* Small Islands Big Picture Episode 7 welcomes viliame kasanawaqa Liam Campling and Orlando Allard to discuss how the global shipping industry is changing and where #SIDS fit into this picture ODI Emily Wilkinson odi.org/en/insights/sm…

The US still recommends free ongoing Covid boosters for everyone 6+ months. Most people in UK haven’t had one for 2+ years, young kids have never had one, and well-off people can now buy them. How is this sensible public health policy and why isn’t it part of political debate?

With Germany legalising cannabis, Europe is reaching a tipping point. Britain, take note

Excellent piece from ⁦Steve Rolles⁩ 🔥🔥 theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

'The #MVI is an idea whose time has come. It represents for #SIDS one of the most practical ways in which the desire to reform the international financial architecture can be made tangible.'

Read our Chair Fatumanava Dr. Pa'olelei Luteru statement on the final report:
aosis.org/moving-forward…

It has been an amazing experience being a POST (UK Parliament) Fellow with @CPA_BMIR and Commonwealth Parliamentary Association UK observing their election observation in UK Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. Wonderful people. Great project. Hope it helps future programming!

uk-cpa.org/media/5283/fin…

someone do a petition to change the England flag to the Nike version permanently

This is just 11 days before the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in Samoa (which takes two days to get to from the UK). Thoughts go out to those in government doing the contingency planning.

Our successful first ever #SIDSFutureForum2024 with UN-OHRLLS AOSIS Island Innovation 🏝️ Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office made the news in Antigua-Barbuda, the host of this year's #SIDS4 summit

antigua.news/2024/03/09/sid…

As if LCD Soundsystem are on the second line of this bill

👂 Listen to this new episode of the ' #SmallIsland , Big Picture' podcast!

🏝️ In this episode Matt Bishop & Emily Wilkinson invite experts to reflect on how the 4th UN SIDS Conference in Antigua-Barbuda (SIDS4) can generate 'resilient prosperity.'

bit.ly/3Tb8x3K

New report out... A long time in the works...

Short summary: Brexit created a host of new tasks for the UK state, which it is still struggling to get to grips with 8 years on. That has led to a lack of strategic vision about what type of state the UK wants to be outside the EU.

Pleased to announce that my alma mater Queen Mary University of London has invited me to do an alumni talk this Wednesday at 5pm (UK time).

Reserve your spot here 😁
eventbrite.co.uk/e/alumni-semin…

Gathering at King's College in June to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Ian Bruff's hugely influential article 'The Rise of Authoritarian Neoliberalism' and dissect the ongoing relevance/manifestations of 'authoritarian neoliberalisms'.

📢 CfP + details: cbtansel.net/post/ran10-202…