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Climate Diplomacy and the Global South
December 2, 2022One aim of COP27 was to persuade countries to make commitments to reduce emissions and earmark resources for technologies to be transferred from industrialized states to less developed states. Hovering over the COP27 was the reluctance of wealthy states to live up to their 2009 commitment to provide $100 billion to poor countries, financial assistance for adaptation (as opposed to just mitigation projects), and more compensation for what the Paris Agreement termed “loss and damage,” that is recompense for destruction already wrought by climate change. This year’s gathering is the first where “funding [...]
The World Bank Window for Host Communities and Refugees: Opportunities for Learning and Expansion in Africa and Beyond
December 1, 2022This blog is one in a series by experts across the Center for Global Development ahead of the 2022 US-Africa Leaders Summit. These posts aim to re-examine US-Africa policy and put forward recommendations to deliver on a more resilient, deeper, and mutually beneficial partnership between the United States and the nations of Africa. The US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC presents an important opportunity to discuss the public good provided by African countries in hosting 7 million refugees. The US is the largest bilateral and multilateral donor to refugee responses [...]
Confronting the climate emergency with climate, trade and development policy in sync
November 17, 2022One of the defining features of climate negotiations is the emphasis on aligning climate and development goals. The three long-term goals of the Paris Agreement – mitigation of warming, adaptation to impacts and climate-consistent finance – are all pledged “in the context of sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty”. If we fail on climate, we will fail on development. But if we fail on development, we will also fail on climate because people and countries will – rightly – continue striving to improve their quality of life through any [...]
Future of Development Forum
November 14, 2022A half-day global virtual event to examine the pressing questions the development community must address in the coming decades. Climate change, conflict, food insecurity, and pandemics. These global challenges are growing in urgency and complexity—and they are not confined by borders. While wealthy countries are aging and their growth rates are faltering, the traditional manufacturing-led path to rapid growth in poorer countries is narrowing. In the face of headwinds to global prosperity and increasing geopolitical, economic, global health and environmental insecurity, development agencies and multilateral institutions are struggling to keep [...]