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🌳🖨️💲 Green bonds, payments for ecosystem services, nature credits & offsets are premised on the financialization of nature.
To date, they haven't raised enough money and have harmed local communities & indigenous peoples.
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The Loss and Damage fund has approved a decision to set aside $21.6m for Nepal’s flood recovery efforts.
While DCJ welcomes this allocation, it has raised concerns over delays in disbursing the funds & inadequate levels of support.
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New report by @Earth_Insight finds major gaps in key biodiversity protection areas. More than 61.5 million hectares of protected areas across tropical countries overlap with oil and gas blocks, while another 42.7 million overlap with mining concessions.
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Radhika Chatterjee of @3rdworldnetwork breaks down the fight over science and equity at mid-year climate negotiations in Bonn in @GeoEngMon
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💱Pandemic prevention could cost 100 times less than responding to outbreaks, according to @IPBES.
Yet governments struggle to fund crises that never happen. Experts at the @WorldHealthSmt called for a shift in priorities.
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Nele Marien (@FoEint) warns about Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), the billion-dollar invoice that Global South countries receive for trying to protect their biodiversity.
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Mirna Inés Fernández (TWN) argues that market-based approaches to fund biodiversity conservation are sold as the solution. But they only benefit certification agencies & North countries while threatening indigenous communities who steward conservation on the ground. #COP17
Tom Picken, Forests & Finance Policy Director at Rainforest Action Network, exposes the contradiction of reiterating the need for funding to protect nature while the money shows us it is going towards its destruction. #COP17
Lim Li Ching, senior researcher with the Third World Network, presents our report “It is time to talk about the elephants in the room” at #COP17.
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Tom Picken, of Rainforest Action Network, examines how financial systems continue to reward biodiversity destruction, often with little accountability.
Read 𝑊𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑜𝑚 report 🔗 tinyurl.com/ElephantsCOP17
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✊🏽Latin America and Global South rejects geoengineering.
In the lead-up to #COP31, listen to Gina Cortes Valderrama of @WGC_Climate saying: “Geoengineering is not a fix to climate change. Latin America and the Global South are not laboratories."
Audrey Irvine-Broque & Jessica Dempsey (University of British Columbia) examine how the international financial architecture constrains governments’ ability to protect biodiversity.
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IPCC-65 suspended: no agreement on AR7 timeline or 2027 budget.
DCJ calls for timely, inclusive climate science and meaningful participation by developing countries.
Climate action cannot wait. Equity and historical responsibility remain central.
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Ahead of #COP31, developing countries at the IPCC fear that rushed assessments risk excluding Global South research.
The 43% emissions-cut benchmark for 2030 illustrates how global figures can obscure unequal burdens and equity concerns.
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Who shapes climate science and whose voices count? Equity must guide @IPCC_CH assessments both in participation and in the assumptions shaping climate pathways. Meena Raman @3rdworldnetwork and Dr Leon Sealey-Huggins @WarOnWant, from DCJ member orgs write:
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Developed countries have failed to meet their biodiversity finance obligations.
But that’s no excuse to turn to the private sector & market approaches, warns Lim Li Ching of @3rdworldnetwork in an interview with @CarbonBrief ahead of #COP17.
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New report by TWN, @FoEint, Rainforest Action Network, @GYBN_CBD & @cbd_wc exposes the economic rules, harmful financial flows & corporate interests driving biodiversity loss as countries prepare for Yerevan.
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