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Torbjørn Gjefsen The lead author of a Rainforest Foundation Norway report showing how little funding goes to Indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) for tenure and forest management writes that the reality is even worse than the “less than 1%” soundbite often shared. Over 10 years, $

Aid , Biodiversity , Business , Climate , Disasters , Economy , Education , Energy , Environment , Food , Forests , Governance , Human Rights , Monitoring , Refugees , Resources , Science & Technology , Sustainable Development , Transport , Water / 11/15/2021

COP26: What was agreed at the Glasgow climate talks?

Christopher Davy The Paris rulebook has been finalised, the focus has been put on cutting emissions this decade, but developing countries are left dissatisfied on finance After running over by a day, negotiators at COP26 finally reached agreement on a “Glasgow climate pact” on 13 November. The t

Aid , Climate , COVID-19 , Governance , Human Rights , Sustainable Development / 11/05/2021

Global South observers ‘blocked from COP26 negotiations’

Fiona Broom A participation revolution is needed to stop the “outrageous” exclusion of civil society and the global South from major international talks, development advocates have said amid accusations that COP26 is the least inclusive climate summit in a decade. Vaccine and visa complications,

Aid , Climate , Economy , Governance , Human Rights , Opinions , Sustainable Development / 10/27/2021

Climate Finance, a ‘Committed Injustice’; will COP 26 listen?

Situation demands to go beyond the business-as-usual actions, but the global leaders and corporates are still moving with myopic economic and political system. “The current climate situation shows a pathway of at least 2.7-degree Celsius heating above preindustrial levels, and that’s obviously a

Aid , Climate , Disasters , Food , Governance , Health , Human Rights , Refugees , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 10/14/2021

Climate crisis is fuelling an unprecedented food and hunger crisis

The world faces an exponential increase in hunger fuelled by the climate crisis if urgent global action to help communities adapt to climatic shocks and stresses is ignored, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warns ahead of World Food Day, on 16 October. A WFP analysis shows that a 2°C r

Aid , Data & Reports , Governance , Monitoring , Sustainable Development / 09/26/2021

Aid providers: More puzzle pieces, including unexpected outcomes; ours is not the whole picture

Jindra Cekan Donor evaluations tend to ignore unexpected results beyond the usual set outcomes; this being reconfirmed in a Dutch study of 80% #foreignaid When we did our first ex-post evaluation/ delayed final evaluation in 2006 in Niger for Lutheran World Relief (LWR) funded by the

Aid , Climate , COVID-19 , Data & Reports , Governance , Human Rights , Migration , Resources , Sustainable Development / 09/21/2021

A shortfall of $75 billion expected over a period of six-years affecting the most vulnerable nations

Wealthy nations are expected to fall up to $75 billion short of fulfilling their long-standing pledge to mobilize $100 billion each year from 2020 to 2025 to help the most vulnerable countries adapt to the dangerous effects of climate change and reduce their emissions, according to estimates by Oxfa

Aid , Biodiversity , Business , Environment , Food , Governance , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/14/2021

Calls for halt to funding for industrial agriculture in Africa

Inga Vesper Civil society organisations have called on influential donors to stop funding industrial agriculture programmes, which they say harm smallholder farmers and the environment. The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) — which represents 200 million small

Aid , Business , Climate , Data & Reports , Economy , Energy , Environment , Governance , Health , Resources , SDGs , Sustainable Development / 09/07/2021

EU complicit in colossal, lawless air pollution from Balkan coal plants

Around 19,000 people are estimated to have died over the past three years as a result of air pollution from Western Balkan coal-fired power plants, according to a report released by CEE Bankwatch Network and the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air. The report, Comply or Close, launched to

Aid , Disasters , Food , Governance , Human Rights , Labour , Sustainable Development , Water / 09/01/2021

Drought threatens the livelihoods of 7 million farmers in Afghanistan

The long-term outlook is challenging as farmers and herders, affected by drought, typically need three to five years to recover fully The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has appealed for humanitarian assistance to be scaled up as Afghanistan continues to be hit hard by

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