UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer just cut the UK aid budget from 0.5% of GNI to 0.3% in 2027 to fund increases in defence spending.
He says he’s making tough choices, but cutting funding for the world’s poorest people is the easiest—and cruellest—choice he could make (1/4)
25.02.2025 14:18 — 👍 23 🔁 14 💬 2 📌 3
With Trump's inauguration just days away, many people are worried about what his second term will mean for global reproductive rights. In a new blog, my colleagues and I argue that the UK should step up to champion family planning and reproductive rights:
www.cgdev.org/blog/trumps-...
15.01.2025 11:48 — 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 1
Nations agreed on a target of $300bn/year in climate finance for developing nations by 2035.
Sounds like a big number, but it's not as ambitious as it seems...
1⃣ Pre-COP, rich nations were already on track to reach $200bn with "no additional effort".
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05.12.2024 12:19 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Correct Ian Mitchell now tagged! (I suspect this won't be the last time this happens)
05.12.2024 11:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.12.2024 11:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Blog: The Tenth Recipient Test.
The median size for a bilateral aid country relationship (US aid to Vanuatu, UK aid to Cameroon for eg) is about $1.5 million.
Only 7% of bilateral relationships are >$100m.
'Country programs' make little sense below that level.
03.12.2024 13:52 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 3
For those negotiating in Baku on the #NCQG climate finance goal
@edwickstead.bsky.social and I have calculated two new scenarios in our @cgdev.bsky.social model of baselines relating to multilateral development banks and the latest negotiating text
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22.11.2024 18:02 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Important note: On a "business-as-usual" trajectory, with...
⛔️NO new finance pledges
⛔️NO new finance system reforms
⛔️NO extra effort
Climate finance reaches ~$200bn by 2030, according to analysis by @joethwaites.bsky.social and others.
www.nrdc.org/bio/joe-thwa...
22.11.2024 13:03 — 👍 9 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
Not sure what Goodhart's Law is, but let's be more ambitious and make it a target of 6000....
22.11.2024 14:00 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The updated text on the new climate goal #NCQG is finally out, suggesting a goal of $250bn per year by 2035.
This figure is slightly above our 'no effort' baseline scenario of $222bn (this increased current efforts by inflation and economic growth).
Short 🧵
22.11.2024 13:36 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
CGD's very own starter pack... experts and staff former and present...
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20.11.2024 16:09 — 👍 22 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2
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