@sanbilal.bsky.social
Executive Director @ECDPM.org (#geopolitics, climate & development finance, EU & beyond). Posts are my personal views
Really worrying development:
Climate banking group pauses activities amid rising political pressure
🌍 A 176% nominal increase for EU external action is a major headline. But what will this bigger budget actually be for?
@sanbilal.bsky.social analyses what we know of the upcoming Global Europe instrument and what it means for global partnerships.
Read the commentary 👉 bit.ly/3IJeRy3
#MFF #GEI
Great overview of AI infrastructures by FT
“95 per cent of commercially available AI computing power is operated by US and Chinese tech groups.”
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US Republicans seek to defund the OECD
30.07.2025 11:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ivory Coast leader seeks fourth term after rivals sidelined
30.07.2025 11:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Pierre Heilbronn: «Les entreprises françaises sont le premier employeur étranger en Ukraine» rfi.my/BpWm.BS
10.07.2025 18:40 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Why skyrocketing cocoa prices are not benefiting Africa’s farmers
30.06.2025 05:56 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Carbon reporting urgently needs fixing — here’s how to do it
16.06.2025 19:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Brussels split over state aid for clean tech production
16.06.2025 19:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0EU safety rules for chemicals will hamper quest for critical minerals industry, top miners say
16.06.2025 19:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Who are you calling over-the-hill? The truth about brain ageing
10.06.2025 21:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pakistan to raise military spending 17% after clashes with India
10.06.2025 21:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Trade wars to weigh on two-thirds of developing countries, World Bank warns
10.06.2025 21:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Europe confronts Trump’s triple threat on Ukraine, Nato and trade
04.06.2025 05:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do the Most Climate-Vulnerable Countries Get More Adaptation Finance from the World Bank? url:https://www.cgdev.org/blog/do-most-climate-vulnerable-countries-get-more-adaptation-finance-world-bank
29.05.2025 10:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0🔴 Recording now available for Africa–Europe: Partners in the Storm – From the Ministerial to the Summit
High-level officials share key outcomes of the AU-EU ministerial and the implications for the next phase of relations.
Full video 👉 bit.ly/3YWSUAS
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🔴 "It was painful and it remains painful to hear countries with so much potential referred to as Least Developed Countries"
- H.E. Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Republic of Zambia
Full recording 👉 bit.ly/3YWSUAS
📸 Solutions to global hunger exist, but they remain out of reach due to a broken food governance system.
We welcomed ambassadors and experts to our Brussels office to launch the @kofiannanfdn.bsky.social report on food security.
The report 👉 bit.ly/4kItZtg
More on 👉 bit.ly/4iLiiRS
Our AU-EU ministerial brief begins!
South African Deputy Minister H.E. Thandi Moraka begins on the importance of multilateralism, peace and African mineral processing
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... and it continues.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for the Republic of Zambia, H.E. Mulambo Hamakuni Haimbe, speaks on the AU-EU partnership.
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📸 With the launch of a Circle of Finance Ministries for the Brazilian COP30 Presidency, we hosted an event with @concito.bsky.social, @odi.global and @e3g.bsky.social to share insider insights on addressing the climate finance gap of $1.3 Trillion.
European support for adaptation 👉 bit.ly/4hgte8V
🎬 ECDPM Director @sanbilal.bsky.social speaks to the European Parliament DEVE Committee ahead of the Financing for Development conference.
20.05.2025 13:59 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0ESG fund outflows hit record as sustainable investing backlash grows
25.04.2025 20:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The number of homeless people in Brussels rose to nearly 10,000 – a rise of almost 25% in two years, confirming a trend that has been unabated since 2008.
23.04.2025 20:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’d honestly be more interested in his opinion on how to boost the international euro rather than a variation of “I want everything to stay the same.”
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
En Tunisie, les organisations d’aide aux migrants traitées comme des criminels par le régime
23.04.2025 16:00 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
This due diligence drama just keeps running and running. My piece following today’s debate in the European Parliament on the commission’s plans to roll back some of the provisions borderlex.net/2025/04/23/e...
23.04.2025 16:37 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0As the EU’s financial arm, our goal is clear: strengthen global partnerships for peace and prosperity.
In these uncertain times, Europe stands as a beacon of stability - our partners can trust us.
President @nadiacalvino.eib.org on @cnbc.com ⤵️
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