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Briefing: "Gender-responsive climate finance: The key to just climate action and tackling inequalities"
New expert paper looks at the gendered impacts of national and personal debt on a woman's ability to implement climate measures,...
Do the NextGenerationEU funds respect the biophysical limits of the planet?
ODG analyzes the material implications of the ecological transition financed with European funds Next Generation EU and concludes that it...
What are green bonds and can Bulgaria issue them successfully?
Green Bonds are a debt financing instrument designed to raise funds and finance new or existing projects that have a...
Flattering to deceive: A reality check for the ‘EU Climate Bank’
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is the European Union’s investment bank and its financial arm. It has been seeking to position itself as a climate leader...
Development Finance for Gender-Responsive Climate Action
This paper provides an overview of how members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) are integrating gender equality and climate action...
IPCC report: what does it say about debt and climate finance?
Climate justice requires debt justice. Communities and activists have been saying this for years. Decision-makers in the global North have...
Locked out of a Just Transition: fossil fuel financing in Africa
Published on March 3, 2022 by 19 African partners, Banktrack and Oil Change International.
Water, sanitation and hygiene: the foundation for building resilience in climate-vulnerable communities
Around 90% of extreme weather events are related to water – be they through droughts, floods or storms. Natural disasters...
ODG : Publication Green Deals: Where is global justice? (Catalan, Spanish, English)
Publication Green Deals: Where is global justice? (Catalan, Spanish, English)
What came out of COP26?
ODG has just have published their last piece (in English) on the COP26: What came out of COP26? which aims to clarify...
Atlas of Vulnerability: Developing Countries and the Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic impacts developing countries worse than developed countries. When we look at the big picture, we see that...
The European Green Deal: Reclaiming Public Investments for a real Socio-ecological Transformation
The European Green Deal (EGD) has been called by the Commission’s President Von der Leyen the “man on the moon...
Ensuring green equity means equity for people and planet
A new report published today by Recourse, Heinrich Böll Stiftung Washington DC, BankTrack, Trend Asia and Centre for Financial Accountability...
A feminist and decolonial global Green New Deal: principles, paradigms, and systemic transformations
The Feminist Economic Justice for People & Planet Action Nexus is led by four key partners - who also serve...
Private finance won’t decarbonise our economies – but the ‘big green state’ can
Blog article in The Guardian by Professor Daniela Gabor. 'While the private sector wants to keep control of the green...
Analysis 102: Climate change, Debt and COVID-19
A new study from Bread for the World and erlassjahr.de, 'Climate change, Debt and COVID-19: Analysing the Triple Crisis with a New Climate Disaster...
Briefing on loss and damage
Some of you have asked for more context on how and why loss and damage is different to adaptation and...
How lessons from development finance can strengthen climate finance
Climate finance is a vital and powerful sustainable development tool. This briefing highlights lessons learned from long-standing work on development...
Green deals in a time of pandemics: The future will be contested now
Book by Alfons Pérez, Observatori del Deute en la Globalització ODG.
A tale of two emergencies - the interplay of sovereign debt and climate crises in the global south
Our latest report focuses on the climate emergency and how it has become a wider focus of policy discussions around...
Eurodad briefing on FiC: Development Finance Institutions and Covid-19: Time to reset
Between 9 and 12 November 2020, over 400 Public Development Banks (PDBs) will be gathering (virtually) at the first Finance...
Gender and Climate Finance
Climate Finance Fundamentals Briefing by Liane Schalatek, Heinrich Böll Stiftung North America, and Smita Nakhooda, Overseas Development Institute.
Shadow report on climate finance 2020
Oxfam published its Shadow report on climate finance 2020, which assesses progress towards the $100 billion goal based on the latest...
Fool's Gold: How Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold destroys the Greek environment and dodges tax through Dutch mailbox companies
Eurodad's member SOMO has published a new report titled Fool's Gold - How Canadian mining company Eldorado Gold destroys the Greek environment and dodges...
Agro-Colonialism in the Congo: European and US development finance is bankrolling a new round of colonialism in the DRC
A report authored by Eurodad partners GRAIN and RIAO-RDC looks at how European and US development finance is bankrolling a...
Unjust Enrichment: How the IFC Profits from Land Grabbing in Africa
Eurodad member Bank Information Center in collaboration with Inclusive Development International, Accountability Counsel, The Oakland Institute and Urgewald, have released...
2018 Biennial Assessment and Overview of Climate Finance Flows Technical Report
The 2018 BA comprises this summary and recommendations, and a technical report. The summary and recommendations was prepared by the SCF. Thetechnical...
Climate Finance Thematic Briefing: Mitigation Finance (2018)
Progress in making ambitious emission reductions has been slow to-date. Climate finance can play a crucial role in assisting developing...
Market mechanisms for loss and damage climate finance fail human rights test
Market mechanisms to fund the cost of repairing the harmful impacts of climate change fail to protect the rights of...
In the dark: Secrecy and the Myingyan Public Private Partnership gas power plant in Myanmar
This report is by Recourse, a Eurodad member. Cash-strapped governments are promoting public-private partnerships (PPPs) as the panacea to delivering...
Repeat Prescription: The impact of the World Bank’s Private Sector Diagnostic Tools on developing countries
The World Bank exerts influence over the development policies of low and middle income countries. It does this through various...
Climate Finance Thematic Briefing: Adaptation Finance (2018)
The costs of adaptation to climate change in developing countries are substantial. Developed countries have committed to scale up support...
Take Action: Stop EcoEnergy's Land Grab in Bagamoyo, Tanzania
Eurodad’s member ActionAid has published a new report titled Take Action: Stop EcoEnergy's Land Grab in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. This report shows that approximately 1,300 people...