80 years after the first Bretton Woods conference, the world has changed beyond recognition... but our global financial system has not caught up. New Devex piece from me, Bretton Woods Proj | bsky @brettonwoodsproject.org’s Jon Sward & Lara Merling #BrettonWoods80 #SDRs ActionAid USA 1/8 bit.ly/4cTwfKi

Miliband says Labour will honour pledge of £11.6bn in overseas climate aid theguardian.com/environment/ar…

I was deeply moved by my meeting with coastal communities in Samoa forced to move their homes inland. Sea levels are rising at a rate not seen in at least 3,000 years. If we don’t reverse these climate change trends, we will see this tragedy in other coastal areas globally.

“Whereas agriculture, forestry, and land-use change combined account for about 18 percent of global emissions, they represented more than three-quarters of Brazil’s between 2000 and 2020.” phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-w…

Africa’s Debt Crisis Has ‘Catastrophic Implications’ for the World nytimes.com/2024/08/28/bus…

Today we see runaway conflicts & climate change. Runaway inequalities & debt. Runaway development of new technologies without guardrails. The upcoming Summit of the Future is a step towards global mechanisms to address these issues in an effective, networked & inclusive way.

Breaking: UN Pact for the Future is adopted & repeats agreement made at COP28 to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels, triple renewable energy, and double energy efficiency. Fossil fuel phaseout is the new normal for #climate action. #UNGA79 #SummitoftheFuture2024

New event! Join in person at #COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan or online to hear investors from around the world discuss the essential whole-of-government approach to policy needed from governments to step up their climate ambitions. Find out more & register: theinvestoragenda.org/upcoming-event…

🌿Sue Reid, Climate Finance Advisor to Christiana Figueres, explains how investors can shift finance from activities that harm nature – in particular through ending #deforestation⤵️ Tools like Finance Sector Roadmap, Forest IQ & DEFT Pathway can guide change. nature4climate.org/interview-sue-…

With its ambitious 2035 emissions-reduction target, just announced by PM Starmer at COP29, the UK is stepping up at a time when leadership is most needed.

A historic deal to shift $41 billion per year out of fossil fuels to clean energy could be agreed tomorrow IF Korea stops blocking. 윤석열 Yoon Suk Yeol, 대한민국 외교부 MOFA_KR, Korea must join with other countries and agree on an OECD deal to #StopFundingFossils: tinyurl.com/328knjeh

Blunt from Swiss Re. If you want to tackle #climate, take the transition seriously. 'Mitigating climate change requires the global real economy to transform. That’s one of the reasons why Swiss Re supports clients in the transition to a net-zero economy'

Ex CEO of Allianz Investment Management explains how #climate = end of insurance as we know it... 'we are fast approaching temperature levels—1.5°C, 2°C, 3°C—where insurers will no longer be able to offer coverage for many of these risks' linkedin.com/pulse/climate-…

NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | Lauri Myllyvirta Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU

We have to thank you Ambassador Markus Leitner ClimateWorks Foundation for convening this amazing cohort of women transforming societies and responding to the climate emergency! Sue Reid Sandrine Dixson Nizami Ganjavi International Center - NGIC GWL Voices Cities Alliance

The fossil fuel age is flailing & failing. We're at the dawn of a new & clean energy era. An era where cheap, abundant, renewable energy powers a world rich in economic opportunity. We have the tools to power the future for humanity. This is our moment of opportunity.