“What is climate finance? Dunno. But we’re definitely providing 100bn of it”.

Martha G. Bekele and I explore the resistance among providers of climate finance to agree on how to measure it, and what Charles Goodhart might have to say about the controversy

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There is money, plenty of it, just not for climate action.
Let's get the foundations right that could guide us in navigating the gridlock of climate finance
Would love it if you could engage me in this discussion paper as I plan to review and enrich it.
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1/3 📢 Happening now! How can we better support local #climate adaptation finance in #Africa ? DI's Martha G. Bekele joins sessions on scaling, accountability and governance. Join here👇us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #ARFSD10 PACJA

New blog in which I explore how changes in reporting have exaggerated upwards trend in climate finance, using NLP tools that Alex Miller has very patiently been teaching me:
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Upshot: CF would have been much higher in the past if measured by today's standards

At the 56th session of the ECA African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Ecoc Dev, Development Initiatives (DI) along side ONE and African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) are demanding for tripling the World Bank 's IDA for affordable finance for developing countries.
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As COP28 concludes today, I reflect on
*relying on market solutions when, in the first place, we are where we're b.c of greed and consumerism;
*the rush to offset rather than cut emissions
*the disregard to differentiated transition
* the broken international financial system

“Africa has been short-changed by climate change; now it will be short-changed in global trade” Akinwumi A. Adesina AfDB President, raising alarm on EU's CBAM.

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'You cannot decarbonise in a system that is not decolonised' - quotable quote from Fadhel Kaboub فاضل قابوب at an event discussing trade and fiscal space here COP28 UAE.
See here other great insights.
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It’s a wrap for me at COP 28 as week two starts today. Despite slow progress in negotiations, I hope that this COP will live up to its promise to ‘Unite. Act. Deliver’. If you are still in Dubai and would like to engage with us, please get in touch with my colleague Martha G. Bekele

Patriarchal family structures created an environment that normalized violence and thereby reinforced women's and children’s subordination.

Centre for the Study of Violence & Reconciliation

#16daysofactivism #GBV #patriarchy #MentalHealth #FamilyStructures #Womenandchildren #sdgs

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Powerful voices today at this #GenAdapt event: Liane Schalatek, Titi Gbemisola Akosa, Stephanie Eyram Akrumah and Ndivile Mokoena .My key takeaway:there should be data on how much finance is reaching women at local level. If you don’t know how much there is you cannot apply accountability!

I've since learnt that the COP28 Presidency donated the space and pan African institutions paid for the fitting.
In future COPs, can African members consider to have a big (umbrella) hub for all African stakeholders?
ECA African Union African Development Bank Group AUDA-NEPAD

Strong key message on just transition from African actors is for it to follow a rights based approach that leaves no one behind and causes no harm.

The 3 key messages from Africans COP28 UAE
1. Cut emissions (focus less on offsets!); 2. Adaption as the number one priority; & 3. Work out the operationalisation framework of L&D funding lest we've similar challenges as other mechanisms -insufficiency, inefficiency & inequity.

💥 ‘Back into caves’: #Cop28 president dismisses phase-out of fossil fuels

- Exclusive: UAE’s Sultan Al Jaber says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of coal, oil and gas

#ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
Story by me and Ben R. Stockton

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Strengthen data systems if the desired outcome is for women to be counted to count.
Plan climate action for women, by women and with women using reliable and timely data.
These were the two strong messages from Mariam Ibrahim at the COP28 UAE on gender and environment data.

At #COP28UAE safeguarding the *just* in JETP (Just Energy Transition Partnerships), Crispian Olver reminded us all the global financial architecture is not working for climate financing esp., for Africa. He says what we have is *elite multilateralism*!