Official Documents
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Global Warming of 1.5 ºC
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · October 19, 2020 2:06 PM
An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
The report is available here.
The translations of the SPM and other material can be downloaded from this link.
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The EU budget for external action in the next Multiannual Financial Framework
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · June 02, 2020 12:00 AM
Together with the new European Recovery Instrument (‘Next Generation EU'), the European Commission is proposing a targeted amendment to its initial proposal for the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) adopted in 2018. The new proposal reinforces the EU's capacity to support partners – in particular in the Western Balkans, the EU's wider Neighbourhood and Sub-Saharan Africa – in their efforts to fight and recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, in cooperation with partners such as international financial institutions, the United Nations and the World Health Organization. The External Action Guarantee and the European Fund for Sustainable Development Plus will be the key instruments in this regard.
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G20 statement of November 13 2020
Posted by · January 19, 2020 9:34 AM
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Proposed Council changes to the preamble, dated December 2019
Posted by Olivia Lally · December 15, 2019 2:54 PM
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CBCR - Council Presidency compromise, November 2019
Posted by Olivia Lally · November 30, 2019 2:48 PM
Latest Council Presidency compromise, dated November 2019
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UN Independent Expert links International Financial Institutions’ austerity push to Human Rights impacts
Posted by · September 12, 2019 5:10 PM
This week, the UN Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, released a report on the role of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) in imposing economic reforms that violate human rights. In particular, the report highlights how widespread promotion of austerity measures has had an adverse effect on human rights impacts in a number of countries. The document is due to be presented to the UN General Assembly in October.
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UN Guiding Principles on human rights impact assessments of economic reforms
Posted by Mark Perera · March 01, 2019 5:17 PM
The UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights will be presenting new Guiding Principles on human rights impact assessments of economic reforms to the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in February/March 2019.
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EBRD, AfDB, ADB, EIB, IADB, WB 2017 Joint report on multilateral development banks’ climate finance
Posted by Cecilia Gondard · November 05, 2018 1:08 PM
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UNFCCC Standing Committee report on finance
Posted by Leia Achampong · November 05, 2018 12:53 PM
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Public climate finance to developing countries is risings.
Posted by · October 19, 2018 2:09 PM
29/11/2018 - Public climate finance from developed to developing countries totalled USD 56.7 billion in 2017, up 17% from USD 48.5 billion in 2016, according to new data compiled by the OECD.
A new data series for 2013-2017 shows that public climate finance has risen by 44% from USD 39.5 billion in 2013. The year-on-year rise has been steady aside from a small dip in 2015.
The data includes bilateral public climate-related aid from developed countries, multilateral climate finance attributable to developed countries, and officially supported climate-related export credits from developed countries. Updated estimates of mobilised private climate finance flows are due to be provided in 2019. Previously estimated mobilised private climate finance for 2013-14 are provided in the report for completeness.
The 2017 figure is consistent with a linear pathway to the level of public climate finance from developed countries that the OECD projected in a previous report in 2016 would be reached in 2020, i.e. USD 66.8 billion in 2020, excluding export credits.