Ahead of this week’s @g20 TF Clima meetings in 🇧🇷, Viktor Ahlgren and I tap into the renewed discussion on #CountryPlatforms to accelerate #SDG delivery, emphasising the G20 South Africa's role in supporting their development. 🧵(1/5) e3g.org/publications/c…

.The Guardian economics editor Larry Elliot calls for the UK to support a new #SDRs allocation 👏 Paging Rachel Reeves 👀 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

🌍 Join us during #NYCAW for a high-level panel on the growing impact of private sector #ClimateTransition plans! We'll discuss how these plans are shaping global policy and market practices, plus unveil a new E3G initiative. 👉 Sign up now: lnkd.in/e6CZA7WR

The visionary leader of Barbados Mia Amor Mottley tells the #GRS24 in New York that renewables are not always cheap for Small Island Developing countries like hers - Global Solar Council is chairing the Global Renewables Alliance Finance roundtable today to fix exactly that.

E3G warmly welcomes the appointment of Rachel Kyte as UK climate envoy. She is super qualified and an inspired choice. We stand ready to support her in any way we can as the UK government restores its #climate leadership credentials. Rachel Reeves Ed Miliband David Lammy

"If you are an activist, you cannot accept defeat." Keep up the fight Jamie Drummond and Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli - and we will continue to run with you! And happy 20th birthday to our partners ONE #UNGA

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Post-truth world: “I’ve disengaged from politics because I can’t tell what’s true.” A troubling 54% of respondents in an Axios/Harris Poll (no relation to Kamala Harris) survey said they agreed with that statement. That’s the goal of #disinformation: to muddy the waters. #F24

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Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley 🇧🇧 is right: developing countries need #GlobalCrisisRelief. It's time for a new issuance of #SpecialDrawingRights. #UNGA79

Our experts shared insights on #UNGA & #NYCW outcomes and what to expect for #COP29 🕊️ Climate diplomacy in a complex geopolitical landscape 💰 Financial system reform & capital mobilization 🌱 Coal phase-out & the future of fossil fuels Full recording: bit.ly/4gOEYA7

A new SDR issuance would provide the Global South with hundreds of billions of $, condition-free. "Rechanneling" — which comes laden with conditionality & debt — has yielded next to nothing. There's no comparison. From CEPR's Andrés Arauz & Ivana Vasic Lalovic cepr.net/three-years-af…

France is about to release its 2025 budget, which will include a terrible surprise change: the 2 solidarity taxes (on ✈️ & 💸transactions) won't be 'solidaire' any longer! After 2 decades of leadership on innovative development & climate funding, France doing a total u turn?

An important reform that lowers the cost of borrowing from the IMF by 36% or about US$1.2 billion annually just went through. Read more here: imf.org/en/News/Articl…

IDA isn’t an aid program. It’s an investment program that turns recipients into donors 👇🏾

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

🗞️ Today, we and ONE published this open letter in Svenska Dagbladet urging 🇸🇪’s Finance Minister @elisabethsvan to showcase Sweden’s global leadership and step up its pledge to IDA - World Bank’s #IDA21 campaign this year. Here's why it matters 🧵👇

We all know that we're living in difficult geopolitical, political and economic times. That's still no excuse for having cut IDA in real terms. Indeed, exactly the opposite - difficult times call for brave measures. The rich world is failing this challenge.

Trump’s USAid cuts will have huge impact on global climate finance, data shows theguardian.com/environment/20…

Beyond Bretton Woods and E3G are organising an #LCAW2025 roundtable on 'Reimagining the Global Financial System for Planetary Resilience'. Long-term thinking about deep structural reform to the international financial system. I can't post a link, but you can Google the title. ;-)