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Blog Post
November 30, 2023
The latest climate COP, or “Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change,” got underway today in Dubai. It will be attended by thousands of delegates from governments, the private sector, media, and civil society, with two hectic weeks of events and negotiat...
Blog Post
November 28, 2023
Recent news that developed countries may finally have delivered on their promise to mobilise $100 billion of climate finance is welcome. But it is nowhere near enough to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement, and climate finance will continue to be an extremely contentious issue at COP28 in Dubai. So...
Blog Post
November 01, 2023
With just a month to go before COP28, the question of climate finance is threatening to derail the negotiations. Failure to deliver on past promises have damaged trust, and current discussions around both the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) and especially the promised Loss and Damage (L&D) Fun...
Blog Post
July 14, 2023
It’s rare to read an education report that doesn’t mention the learning crisis. As data on low learning levels have emerged in recent years, global education aid has swung its focus sharply toward improving test scores among primary school children. Of course, learning to read is a good thing in its...