Felix Dodds comments on sustainable development, coffee & life

Guest blog by Bertha Iris Argueta Tejeda, Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer, Climate Justice Eurodad - the European Network on Debt and Development. She is an economist, and t focused on public policy in general and on the agricultural sector in particular. Originally published here. The OECD’s latest report on Climate Finance Provided and Mobilised by Developed Countries (covering 2013-2024) confirms a significant shift in how climate finance for Global South countries is being delivered. While the US$ 100 billion climate finance goal was exceeded for the third consecutive year, this is not being driven by increases in bilateral public funding, but by a growing reliance on private finance mobilisation and multilateral development banks (MDBs). Meanwhile, adaptation finance continues to lag behind despite growing needs in many vulnerable countries. This shift raises important questions about the future of climate finance under the   New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) , wh...

Background Information The Recommendation of the Council on Good Institutional Practices in Promoting Policy Coherence for Development was adopted by the OECD Council on 29 April 2010. The Recommendation was revised by the Council on 11 December 2019 on the proposal of the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) and the Public Governance Committee (PGC). On this occasion it was renamed the Recommendation on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development (PCSD). The revisions aimed at providing a comprehensive instrument to help Adherents equip policymakers with the necessary institutional mechanisms and policy tools to support and promote coherent policies for sustainable development with a view to respond to the universal commitments made under the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. OECD’s work on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development and the need for a standard on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development Since the early 1990s, the OECD has been at t...

It is getting a   little tiring   to have to keep defending what has been the   most participatory and open global conversation and development of policy priorities   that we have ever had. Some of the criticisms have come from those   who didn't get what they wanted   in the Sustainable Development Goals and targets   others because they haven't participated in the process   and now realize it is too late and o thers because they don't seem to recognize the huge challenges   that we fact in the world in the coming years. Of course it would be easier if we didn't have to cover so many issues but we had that chance that was the 1990's. The lack of delivery of previous commitments means that of course the world now has to face so many more urgent issues. I read the story in   Humanosphere   and of course I wasn't at the meeting so I can only comment on what was reported as being said. It was a report on the Bill and Melin...