Around 100 civil society groups address a letter to the WorldBank, demanding the end of the ‘gentleman’s agreement’ and calling for merit-based, open and transparent World Bank presidential selection process 👉 brettonwoodsproject.org/2023/03/civil-…

🧵reading so much shit about P*ki being just a word. On 17 July 1980 on a busy high street in Newham a young man, Akhtar Ali Baig, was stabbed to death by a gang of racists one of who shouted “I've just gutted a P*ki." They had bet £5 to who could kill the 1st P*ki. 1/

Friends - I know so many people are hurting beyond words right now. There is no way to describe how awful this is. For Tibetans. For our friends and allies. For all of our supporters. "Heart sick" is the best term I can find to explain the way I am feeling.

'the spirit of the Bridgetown Initiative' sounds a bit like the "ghost of financing gap" (doi.org/10.1016/S0304-…).

UPDATE: WE WON! 🎉 For 7 years, Greenpeace USA has been battling a lawsuit designed to silence us just for speaking out. But it just made us LOUDER! While it's a major victory for us, there's still work to do to ensure we #StopSLAPPs and end corporate bullying for everyone.

Just Announced: U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón is appointed for a historic 2-year second term. She's got BIG collaborations underway to share poetry with more people. Congrats joa 🎏! Great news for #PoetryMonth #NationalLibraryWeek & #NationalParkWeek! newsroom.loc.gov/news/u.s.-poet…

No spoilers, but this is the cleverest football advert I've ever seen.

This is consistently how multilateral policy is done: water it down to get the US on board.

"What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing." Arundhati Roy at her best. Must read. scroll.in/article/105594…

In the climate space, Professor Saleemul Huq was one of the most important voices from the global south, tireless in his advocacy of climate justice. His death, at a time when voices like his are most needed, is a tragic loss. dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/329…

New #COP28 global stocktake language is out. More analysis coming but on fossil fuel text, there's no improvement on equity language (developed countries taking the lead). Instead we get "taking into account... different national circumstances" language. 😩

New #COP28 #GlobalStocktake text is weak on finance and equity is almost nonexistent. No surprise then that fossil fuel phaseout language isn't fast, full, fair, or false-solution-free. Sketch of something useful might be there, but with finance & equity it could be so much more

The #COP28 #GlobalStocktake text was gaveled through without any comments allowed from Parties. The text is severely lacking in assurances for climate finance, and equity - indications that developed countries must take the lead - is almost entirely missing.

I am reminded of liberal Serb intellectuals/lawyers who helped their government deny charges of genocide in The Hague. They were terrified of reparations and of the stigma. To this day, genocide denial in Serbia/RS takes the same form: atrocities on all sides - yes, genocide - no

Full performance of Fast Car by Tracy Chapman with Luke Combs at the Grammys. Her smile at the beginning is the best.

The FACT Dialogue, co-chaired by 🇬🇧 and 🇮🇩 supports sustainable development and trade, while protecting forests and ecosystems on the path to #NetZero. My thanks to Vice Minister Alue Dohong, PhD, whose role as co-chair has been pivotal in bringing countries to the table.

missing from this Financial Times account of the rapid rise of infrastructure as an asset class is the sustained effort that G20 governments have put into derisking infrastructure assets for institutional capital - this is the derisking state in action #WallStreetConsensus

love how Greta Thunberg became a vocal anti capitalist and immediately vanished from every single large news outlet 👁️

Important new research on link between IMF programmes & increased deforestation 👀 #COP16Colombia CC Kate Horner Duncan Pruett @duncan.re-course.org on Bluesky