🌍Multilateral Development Banks' #ParisAlignment principles: What’s in a name? 1 year in, loopholes still allow public finance to flow to fossil fuels and be called #ParisAgreement 'aligned' MDBs must shift focus to renewable energy for all, to commit to real #ClimateAction 🧵

“Many individuals, including environmental activists, have been imprisoned or abducted because of this project. There is widespread physical violence and numerous human rights violations occurring.” #StopEACOP! aciafrica.org/news/11470/neg…

It's time to confront reality: our global financial system is failing our planet! Join us in the fight to #FixTheFinance for climate justice. Sign the #FundOurFuture petition: bit.ly/4d3VF8Q

"It’s summertime, but the living is no longer easy" António Guterres As we wrap up the week where the ‘hottest day on record’...twice It’s time to turn the heat on the World Bank for continuing to fund the climate crisis #FixTheFinance #WorldBankWorldProblems #GasIsBadEconomics

13 months of record-breaking heat have come to a head = Paris Olympic 'Heat Dome' We are dangerously close to crashing through the 1.5ºC limit set by the Paris Agreement, signed in the same city. Wake-up World Bank 1.5°C is not a goal, its a planetary limit #Stopfundingfossils

"We want to shift the ways our communities work and function and energy is central to that. #RenewableEnergy investments are owed to us, we are not begging and we shouldn’t be borrowing." - Janet Milongo Climate Action Network International (CAN) #DontGasAfrica

Oil giants promote carbon capture technologies, but internal documents reveal an industry with a more realistic view of these #FalseSolutions. #CCS and #CDR are industry-promoted distractions that will delay the #FossilFuels phase-out & #ClimateAction! 👉 vox.com/climate/363076…

History is in the making! 🇷🇼Rwanda is poised to become the first African nation to adopt the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. If they do, they'll join 13 other countries, including Samoa, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. The future is #RenewableEnergy! scidev.net/global/news/rw…

Oil is so last century—and it’s done little for Africa’s development. It’s time to embrace #renewables and power a brighter future for our continent!

🇺🇳A #UNTaxConvention will provide much needed tax revenue for development, #HumanRights, & #ClimateAction. Tax havens & int'l #TaxDodging cause +++ losses of tax income for countries worldwide. It's absurd that some govs are dragging their feet. 🇪🇺EU at UN-NY vote YES at United Nations tonight!

The Global South loses the greatest share of tax revenue to tax abuse. Tax revenues that are critical for healthcare, climate action & more. The negotiations for a terms of reference of a #UNTaxConvention are a historic opportunity for states to rewrite global tax rules. (1/2)

Did You Know? The ongoing civil war in Cabo Delgado, fueled by a massive gas project, has displaced 670,000 people since 2017. This is the true cost of gas exploration in Africa. Sign our petition and help us fight this occupation👇🏾 globalcitizen.org/en/action/afri…

2 months today the World Bank Annual Meetings will kick off in Washington DC. Will the Bank take action to #stopfundingfossils and end its days as a climate laggard? We will be there. 👀 #WorldBankWorldProblems

Be Hip, Choose Renewables! It’s time to ditch outdated #fossilfuels and embrace a cleaner, greener future.

"The arrest of #StopEACOP activists in Kampala today is an attack on democracy and the right to protest." - Ashley Kitisya LAUDATO SI’ MOVEMENT - Africa commondreams.org/news/eacop-uga…

Coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel, has been in dramatic decline that the world has pronounced it as dead or, at least, dying. In the past two years, it has managed to stage a comeback.

Clean Energy Transition Partnership members pledged to end int'l public finance to fossil fuels at COP26. 👍Most signatories have now met the commitment ⚠️🇺🇸 🇮🇹 🇨🇭 🇩🇪 must update policies & close loopholes 🆕 report IISD Energy, Oil Change International, Friends of the Earth (Action): iisd.org/publications/r…

🇺🇸 delivered $3.2 billion to int'l fossil fuels in 2023 & 2024, despite pledging to stop funding fossils. Export-Import Bank backed 5 projects including $500m for 300 oil wells in 🇧🇭. The U.S. must live up to climate pledges or face 📈 pressure at COP29. iisd.org/publications/r…

#FreeThe20 activists unjustly detained for peacefully protesting against the harmful #EACOP project. Holding human rights defenders in maximum security prison is an outrage! We stand with them! ✊ Uganda Police Force #StopEACOP #FreeThe20 Jail the Polluters!

#Japan spends billions fueling the climate crisis 🔥- with $93 billion in support to global #oil and #gas projects over the last decade - x4 more than $24.5 billion provided for clean energy projects. Read more: forourclimate.org/newsroom/970