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November 01, 2023
With just a month to go before COP28, the question of climate finance is threatening to derail the negotiations. Failure to deliver on past promises have damaged trust, and current discussions around both the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) and especially the promised Loss and Damage (L&D) Fun...
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October 31, 2023
The World Bank is the largest provider of climate adaptation finance to the world’s poorest countries. Adaptation finance assists countries to reduce the risks they face from climate change such as disease outbreak and rising sea levels. Lower-income countries (LICs) receive highly concessional fina...
Blog Post
October 26, 2023
Green-skilled labour migration could support the green transition, and yield major benefits for both development and carbon emissions. But what skills does the UK need? How reliable are the UK’s domestic training pipelines? What are the prospects for deliberate international recruitment?
Blog Post
October 10, 2023
One burning question is if the World Bank - together with the regional development banks - will use their potential in decarbonising the world economy. The first step in barricading the gates of hell has to be decarbonising the energy sector. It contributes the most to global greenhouse gas emission...
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September 29, 2023
Earlier this week, CGD’s board chair Lawrence Summers started a speech at the Confederation of Indian Industry with a clarion call for cooperation in the face of global threats like climate change and pandemics. This is a moment of discontinuity, and incrementalism will simply not deliver on the sca...
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September 22, 2023
The IMF has now approved ten new loans to countries under its new Resilience and Sustainability Trust (RST), established in 2022 to provide financial support on concessional terms to countries facing long-term structural challenges arising from two key threats: climate change and pandemic preparedne...
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September 13, 2023
Olu Verheijen from the Nigerian government and Vijaya Ramachandran from the Breakthrough Institute join Gyude to discuss the scale and nature of the energy crisis in Africa, the role that renewable energy can (and can't) play in addressing it, and what steps African countries—and partners—can take t...