Last week at the 2026 @munsecconf.bsky.social, the balance between defense priorities and global development goals was a key topic of discussion. Devex reported from the summit to explore the evolving role of aid in an era of heightened security. #MSC26 #mediapartner #globaldevelopment

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With USAID dismantled, #Germany’s @BMZ is now the world’s largest aid agency. Minister Reem Alabali Radovan just unveiled a massive overhaul to meet the moment: - Focus on the poorest nations - Africa & Ukraine prioritized - Pivot to private sector & loans www.devex.com/news/germany...

What is it like being at COP30? Devex’s @jessechaselubitz.bsky.social provides an update on the logistics of getting around the conference venue in Belém and some of the conversations that are happening at the summit. #COP30 #climatechange #Belem

Don't know much about climate adaptation finance? Here's a video to help 📹 @devex.com m.youtube.com/watch?v=jRCS...

Huge crowd today to watch Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Governor Gavin Newsom of California, Mayor Gavin Buckley of Annapolis and Mayor Van Johnson of Savannah. This is likely to be one of the few events featuring any level of US leadership at @cop30brazil.bsky.social

COP30 is officially underway! Devex’s @jessechaselubitz.bsky.social is on the ground and provides an update from the conference. #COP30 #Belem #climatechange #climateaction

All those people who think they can dodge the effects of the climate crisis because they live in a nice developed country are about to get punched in the face. It’s coming in hard everywhere.

Halfway through the “decisive decade,” global #climate action is slipping. A new WRI report finds not one of 45 climate indicators is on track. Check out my @devex.com story www.devex.com/news/45-clim...

Devex's @jessechaselubitz.bsky.social speaks to experts to unpack the political and philosophical debates holding the sector back and highlight what can be done to improve services worldwide. Read the full article on the topic⬇️

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🔴HAPPENING NOW: We are in Rome for COP16 and are waiting as heads of delegations negotiate a new draft on resource mobilization. 📸Photo credits: @jessechaselubitz.bsky.social

Final day of #COP16.2 in Rome today and basically everything is still on the table. It’s a tight deadline. Based on meeting rules, everything has to be finished within 13 hours. So either delegates find a middle ground by 11pm or parties would have to agree on yet another extension. @devex.com

Following along at the resumed #COP16 meetings today in #Rome on biodiversity. These are expected to be a streamlined version of the official meetings in October. The pressure is on delegates to conclude the unfinished business of Colombia. Today’s focus: resource mobilization @devex.com

#Afghanistan still relies on the U.S. for aid. Since the #USAID stop-work order, its currency has devalued, its hospitals are struggling to function, and NGOs are panicking trying to figure out what the #waivers cover. Read our coverage on the reverberations of the USAID freeze @devex.com

One of the many fatalities of the USAID order is a #climate program, SERVIR, which has spent the last 20 years helping countries foresee and prepare for #disasters. It has saved lives and, experts say, helped stave off migration into the U.S. Read more @devex.com 👇 www.devex.com/news/trump-f...

With #USAID frozen, #climate programs will undoubtedly suffer. 🌍 Under the last Trump administration, organizations were able to "fly climate under the radar" but some humanitarian officials say "it’s not going to be as easy to just tweak the language this time around." @devex.com

On Thursday, a USAID-funded resource that provides early warning alerts on famines went offline and company emails bounced back. Officials are outraged, nervous, and sad. “Holy shit. FEWS NET is like the Bible," one official told us. "We rely on them." @devex.com www.devex.com/news/usaid-f...

Five developed countries met the UN’s target for foreign aid in 2023

It's big year for climate action and there's a lot to keep track of. I’ve broken down the key milestones to watch — from Trump's #inauguration to #COP30 in Brazil. Take a look 👇 devex.shorthandstories.com/the-climate-...

Climate change may not feature in elections as high a priority, but it's clear that the world's global elite are certainly worried. www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Excellent investigation (as always) by @peter-yeung.bsky.social into how water is flowing to companies like Coca-Cola rather than to residents. This is keeping residents reliant on the sugary drink while restricting their access to safe water. www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

My latest for @devex.com, summarized for me by @felixfinkbeiner.bsky.social!

The #cyclone in #Mayotte has left dozens dead and tens of thousands without water. The disaster brings up the question of how island jurisdictions that are ruled by rich continental states (France, in this case) receive aid and prepare for these kinds of disasters.

Almost 100 countries & 12 international organizations appeared before the International Court of Justice, seeking to clarify the duties that high-emitting countries have to fight climate change. It’s the largest case the UN has ever seen, Devex climate reporter @jessechaselubitz.bsky.social writes.

Good morning. Carbon markets don’t work. Just 16% of carbon credits correspond to actual emissions reductions, per new research COP29 formalised a Wild West market that might make some consultancies rich but which is going to doom our planet www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I feel like @nytimes.com is having a little fun with this now. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/u...

Agreed. A few big falsehoods here that @theguardian.com let through

2:40am and we have a deal: $300 billion will flow from north to south countries…with a few new caveats. Keep an eye out for @Devex’s coverage.

We’re still here. It’s 1am. No new text but Panama delegation head says there have been some good conversations and that “he sees the light”

Man, now Saudi Arabia has apparently been caught editing official COP29 drafts, maybe granted edit access by the COP presidency, Azerbaijan. Rough. “We are in the midst of a geopolitical power play by a few fossil fuel states.” -a German minister in Baku

Biggest news of the night so far is that Article 6.2 and 6.4 were passed, which means that the world now how have formalized rules for a carbon market. Keep yours eyes peeled for a story in @Devex next week explaining this further.

The plenary room is filling up at 8pm local. No one knows what negotiators are planning to disclose.

I’m hearing that Australian minister of climate change and energy, Mark Bowen, is already on the plane home.

We’re coming up to the 7pm planned closing plenary session, but unsure whether it’s happening/what will be announced

This whole show is turning into a game of “who can trick the journalists into running.” A stampede of us just followed a mystery delegate and when he left our view everyone was asking who he was

The U.S. delegation left the meeting (I assume temporarily) and was followed by an intimidating press huddle. A few activists yelled “shame” behind them in fashionable Game of Thrones manner

Least Developed Countries, or LDCs have walked out of the main meeting, telling developed countries to call them back when their demands are being met.

New text out a 3:00 pm Azerbaijan time commits $300 billion with a 2035 deadline.

Delegate heads have gone into a meeting now to discuss a new deal. Developing countries are angry. "Our delegations are leaving already," said #Panama's delegation head, Juan Carlos Monterrey Gómez. Every minute that passes our delegations get weaker and weaker and weaker." 🧵

The UN Secretariat has messaged saying that this text was incorrect and "not to read anything into it." #climate

New #NCQG document was leaked from this morning at 11:00am Azerbaijan time. The document holds the $250 billion target with only slight differences in wording 👇

Over 330 organizations signed a letter to #G77 and China to “reject any deal that undermines climate justice.” climatenetwork.org/wp-content/u...

Dozens of civil society organizations are demonstrating outside the negotiation rooms demanding trillions.

#AOSIS members have been called to a meeting room, likely to discuss a new draft of #ncqg. Sneaking in did not work.

It's a day into overtime at #COP29. I'm overhearing diplomats say that a new text is circulating, but no one knows what's in it. Many doubt that it will be a meaningful improvement if it's new at all. Some are calling the expected changes "minor edits." On the ground for @devex.com

The latest draft of the climate finance goal (aka NCQG) has caused outrage at #COP29. At the heart of the anger is the amount --- just $250 billion per year. Developing countries have been demanding $1 trillion. 🧵 @devex.com

#COP29 plenary EU "very much concerned" on mitigation text "we need a much stronger language on the concrete follow up to GST" "[Climate extremes] in Africa, the Americas, our friends in the Caribbean & the Pacific…shows we need to do more, not less, than the UAE consensus on mitigation" 1/11

I am thrilled to share a story I have been working on for three (!) years about land reclamation in the Maldives with support from the Pulitzer Center. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...