And what I have just said to the #G20 where Brazil is effectively driving the reform agenda is that where management can act it is beginning to do so. Now we need shareholder action. #SpringMeetings2024

‘⁦Rachel Kyte⁩ said that while there “was movement” within the World Bank, “most observers” think the changes are not “deep enough and fast enough”
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To #DC for World Bank IMF #SpringMeetings with MDBs and IMF reforming to meet cojoined struggles against inequality and climate. But board composition a weakness. Shareholders woefully off governance best practice. gwlvoices.com/download/women…

Kudos ALASTAIR CAMPBELL for using Kingsmill Bond as a foil in discussion with Dieter Helm. The carbon value of £ in policy choices is central. The next govt will need to straighten out domestic policy and engage coherently internationally. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lea… Blavatnik School of Government

Great news for Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet as Woochong Um will give them the practiced leadership they need to achieve promised impact and speed lean energy access through partnership and investment. Sad day for Asian Development Bank but they are on course to be the climate bank their regions need. #SDG7

Congratulations Lindy Cameron - good for the UK and India.

Just seeing this. Tom Heap thanks for all you have done and will keep on doing to keep the crisis and its implications as well as hope in how we respond on the front burner (sorry). Sky News - what were you thinking?

Glad to see USAID and IFRC holding a summit on extreme heat today - and looking forward to listening to 🇸🇱 Yvonne Aki Sawyerr. At Climate Resilience for All we’re focused on supporting the resilience of those who lose livelihoods at temperatures like this. More to come.

Good 👇 reuters.com/markets/world-…. #climatefinance #EnergyTransition #development

Begin the day at Financial Times Live on the realities of overcoming road blocks to the transitions needed for climate action. First - the science Jim Skea. Contrast with yesterday and the UK govt’s announcement on gas investment and bullying talking point that we must be “realistic”.

Great to see Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo BID Invest - IDB Invest on the move. Kudos to everyone Ilan Goldfarb James P. Scriven. iadb.org/en/news/govern…

.Justin Worland as ever goes to the heart of the matter. Disclosure is inevitable in a world where everyone is somebody’s #Scope3 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission #ClimateCrisis TIME time.com/6898732/sec-cl…

And at the Center for Global Development event we also discussed the 'glass cliff. Great piece by Pilita Clark on the new book by Sophie Williams on.ft.com/3IpNcia

I find myself alongside some great women in Reuters Events' Trailblazing Women in Climate 2024 list! As we celebrate #InternationalWomensDay , time to jam the door open even further: 1.reutersevents.com/LP=36690

#IWD #WomenInClimate #InspireInclusion #ReutersEventsSustainableBusiness

.FT Moral Money rightly welcome World Bank guarantees - yet modest tripling (given needs laid out by #G20 ) mainly based on MIGA - big opportunity lies with #IBRD and IFC. Guarantees are moving though see also Asian Development Bank Africa GreenCo GuarantCo BID Invest - IDB Invest
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A week of climate finance meetings in one configuration or another in Sao Paulo under auspices of 🇧🇷 #G20 - read this with an overpromise/underdeliver chaser. Chartbook 267 JET-P: The 'Paper Tigers' of Western climate geopolitics HT Adam Tooze #Climate open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/…

.Kathy Baughman McLeod - building the field at Climate Resilience for All and smart comments here. Policy Watch: Countries connect the dots between climate and health, but will finance follow? #resilience #climate #adaptation reuters.com/sustainability…

A good day. Cambridge-led coalition of universities threatens banks over fossil fuel financing via Financial Times
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Real time methane leak monitoring will provide some spine to methane pledges at #COP28 from governments and companies alike. Google joins satellite mission to scan globe for methane leaks via Financial Times
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.WECAN, International very own Osprey Orielle Lake brings a deeper understanding - in our bones - of repair to the planet and our societies. Something we need in our deepening polycrisis and with nature and climate the ballot in more countries than ever before in 2024. #ClimateJustice