Join us for a discussion of @johannalorenzo.bsky.social new book on the legal and sustainability implications of financing by multilateral development banks. W/@celinetan.bsky.social, @akinkugbe.bsky.social & @ingovenzke.bsky.social on 25 September. https://bit.ly/4nD6cfH @acil-uva.bsky.social

Looking forward to this 👇

A dramatic climate-insurance breakdown that shocks the financial system of entire national economies .....is not going to happen. Why not? NEW: @phenomenalworld.bsky.social @katemac.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ins...

Looking forward to discussing this excellent book !

This is a truly terrible response to an already flawed paper & even more flawed editorial process, a microcosm of what is problematic about western academia. The reliance on fomalities is an exercise in what Tania Li termed 'rendering technical', the technocratic depoliticisation of events 1/3

The 2nd webinar of our series "Illegal occupation, genocide, and business - reflections on the case of Palestine" is on 28 July, with reflections from @irenepietropaoli.bsky.social @chiaramacchi.bsky.social Francesca Albanese, Dr Michelle Staggs Kelsall, Dr Mark Taylor, and Andressa Soares. Reg 👇🏻👇🏻

I have made very good friends in this ‘island of strangers’. This is one the UK’s greatest strengths. It’s entire economy depends on such strangers working together & bonded by shared bafflement over separate hot & cold water taps, carpets in bathrooms & draughty buildings 1/2

Perhaps this is a good moment to say a few words about the EU’s so-called “trade bazooka”, the anti-coercion instrument. What is it and how does it work? 👇

For a sneak preview of my forthcoming monograph, please join for the virtual book talk of 'The Pathology of Plenty' organised by the fabulous @juliadehm.bsky.social & Caitlin Murphy! Details below 👇

Massive congrats to @bambosmp.bsky.social for an excellent debate in Parliament just now on debt cancellation and to the drafters of the bill @kpatricio.bsky.social, Stephen Connelly and @celinetan.bsky.social Much more to be done, but justice is certainly around the corner. #CancelTheDebt

This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

Good article if you're curious about container ships. Great article if you're curious about traveling as a passenger on a container ship. Lots of fascinating smaller details about Filipino crew members, Russian officers, political tension, and more. Still looking for ethnographies on all this.

Six major US banks, including JP Morgan, have recently left the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). Banks in other countries have also followed, with four Canadian banks announcing on Friday that they were also leaving the NZBA. greencentralbanking.com/2025/01/20/u...

Another great post by @reddmonitor.bsky.social showing the tight web of links between pro-offsetting conservationists, big finance & big polluters: a timber company owned by a bank founded by a Conservation Int'l board member is selling Microsoft offsets from covering savanna with eucalypts

The global carbon offset market, projected to grow a hundredfold by 2050, exacerbates neocolonial exploitation under the guise of climate solutions. Available in EN, ES, PT-BR, DE, FR, IT and AR.

“We are disturbed that this siege, coupled with expanding evacuation orders, appears intended to permanently displace the local population as a precursor to Gaza’s annexation in further violation of international law.” UN experts on Israel's annihilation of Gaza www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

My heart breaks for all these children who had hopes and dreams and their future stolen from them. 💔

Inspiring presentation by Nauru ICJ highlighting that no single treaty or regime from which polluting states could withdraw can replace the general rules of international responsibility for climate change.

Reflecting on these words today: UNFCCC Executive Secretary Simon Stiell: 'climate finance is not charity,' 'If two-thirds of the world’s nations cannot afford to cut emissions, every nation pays the price.' Source: ENB COP29 Summary report enb.iisd.org/baku-un-clim...

World Bank: Poor nations spend more money paying off debts to the countries that impoverished them ($1.4tn) than the amount of money they've asked for to combat climate change ($1.3tn). And remember: the paltry $300bn in finance announced at COP29 comes with strings attached.

🚨 Article 6, the Paris Agreement's carbon trading mechanism was agreed at COP29. 🚨 It's a "get out of jail free card" for Big Polluters. 🚨 Carbon markets are about profit and have nothing to do with addressing the climate crisis. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/cop29s-get...

The programme did perpetuate negative stereotypes of international students. It was racist & doesn’t reflect my experience as a former such student or current staff teaching cohorts of int students for 20 years.

Yes I was fuming but not for those reasons. It was sloppy journalism & failed to nuance or tackle the complexities of the system & added onto already negative stereotypes. bsky.app/profile/celi...

I listened to this garbage so you don't have to. It is a horrifically one-sided, un-nuanced hit piece on international students that will do damage to universities & pile on racist abuse of vulnerable students. Shame on Jo Grady & @ucu.org.uk for contributing to this & adding to negative tropes 1/8

This year & this term especially has been very challenging for me so this is a public notice to say that if I have missed responding to your emails or messages, I am trying to get back on track so bear with me. Send me a reminder but I am likely to get back after the new year.

So pleased to have taught with you. Smashed it! 🎉🎉🎉

I am excited to finalise my slides and join tomorrow’s @asilorg.bsky.social panel on sovereign debt, with @astridiversen.bsky.social, Anahí Wiedenbrüg, and Julieta Rossi, exploring the role of law in addressing debt sustainability and safeguarding human rights. 🗓 Wed 4 Dec 2024 ⏲ 11am EST

Lula at UN: “African countries borrow at rates up to 8 times higher than Germany and 4 times higher than the United States. It’s a Marshall Plan in reverse, in which the poorest finance the richest.” www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mar... I presented at G20 Rio YT: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY6Z...

Delighted to have the ‘old gang’ back together again!

💲Carbon market proponents claim that carbon markets can help close the climate funding gap. 💲But the reality, as SOMO points out, is that most carbon offsetting funds stays in the Global North. 💲The money goes to carbon brokers, consulting firms, etc. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/redd-myth-...

In this post, I address a pertinent question that I have continued to return to across my work: are the tools we currently have in legal knowledge sufficient to achieve racial and environmental justice in the present? What does the Zong tell us about this question? folukeafrica.com/relegislatin...

In the Zong case the court heard how people had been thrown overboard to drown for an insurance claim. "The judges took their decisions on a technical point of evidence...nobody concerned in the case made any objection to slavery as a matter of principle." www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/403...

Delighted to be discussing this live with Sol Picciotto @mattikohonen.bsky.social @mariaronbalsera.bsky.social & John Snape at our GLOBE Centre event 👇

Finally, it’s out! Our paper paper on the hidden afterlife of ISDS awards published in open access: academic.oup.com/jids/advance... We draw on a new COPIID dataset to unveil patters of compliance with investment arbitration awards and unveil a significant number of post-award settlements…

For an unvarnished report of the final hours of the disastrous COP29 & a poor deal on finance pushed on developing countries, see report by the excellent @3rdworldnetwork twn.my/title2/climate… 1/12

Not @theguardian.com misreporting facts to suit their narrative again of course 🤨

Wow! Thank you @dbose.bsky.social !

And additional comment to this is that a ‘mobilisation’ objective often invariably involves public $$$ through so-called ‘catalytic capital’, eg use of grants, technical assistance, equity or guarantees to ‘derisk’ private investments 1/5

"To argue that scarcity in public financial capacity justifies and demands a reliance on private finance is deeply irresponsible." Recommended read to make sense of COP29 - @advaitarun.bsky.social for @the-breakdown.bsky.social on "mobilising private finance" www.break-down.org/post/downwar...

The UN is holding discussions on reforming the international financial architecture. My team at the UN has supported the co-facilitators of the #FFD4 outcome document – Mexico, Nepal, Norway and Zambia – to release an elements paper. financing.desa.un.org/ffd4/outcome #fin4dev #FinancingSDGs

I am glad someone is saying this out loud. Thank you 🙏

Much of the money in this agreement climate negotiators reached in Baku will likely be structured as debt, even though, @zoeschlanger.bsky.social writes, that stands in the way of COP’s stated goals.

NEW – COP29: Key outcomes agreed at the UN climate talks in Baku #COP29 ➡️ https://buff.ly/3V5jndk

So a coal-fired power plant in Zhejiang has been brought to a standstill by tidal waves of jellyfish, if there's ever a warning from nature, this is it. A helpful diagram showing the ecological chain reactions due to pollution and overfishing. #environment

I've already seen Westerners "tone policing" this article and others for being "pessimistic" about the COP outcome. Let me just say that when the most populous country on Earth has rejected the COP outcome on the basis of unfairness, you've got bigger fish to fry.

For those wondering wth happened #COP29: developing countries collectively sought $1.3 trillion, incl $600 billion in public grants. Final text word salad says "at least $300 billion", "private", "alternative sources" & other vague language. Developing countries objected unfccc.int/sites/defaul...

Furious intervention from India at #COP29 "gavelling and trying to ignore parties from speaking does not behove the UNFCCC system…we would want you to hear us and also hear our objections to this adoption"

Living vicariously through those on the ground at Baku. Interesting times. Thanks for all the updates.

Despite the best efforts of activists and some climate negotiators, the agreement reached on Article 6 carbon markets at #COP29 in Baku risks facilitating cowboy carbon markets at a time when the world needs a sheriff. Negotiators failed to fix #Article6. carbonmarketwatch.org/2024/11/23/c...