"A development and human-rights perspective should always begin with the lived experience of the Venezuelan people." IDS Honorary Associate, Lizbeth Navas-Aleman writes on the indisputable breach of international law by US and global selective solidarity👇https://ids.pulse.ly/abbgsa8uly

Congratulations to Anu Joshi! Looking forward to working with her to support the IDS vision of a more equitable and sustainable world 🌍⚖️

The science and technology needed for low-carbon living is largely already here. The bigger challenge now is behavioural. How can we introduce climate policies that won't backfire by alienating people? www.santafe.edu/news-center/...

Powerful piece about how AI is killing off local knowledge systems, and how this matters not just for local communities who depend on indigenous knowledge, but for all of us www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...

Great thread, and useful reminder to focus on actual data not media / political hype

Sorry but the idea that aid is failing because it focuses too much on rights and governance instead of economic growth is ludicrous. Recent Gen Z protests in Madagascar, Kenya, Nepal etc show how crucially important rights are. Apart from that clanger, good piece. www.devex.com/news/rethink...

In response to news of 25% staff cuts at FCDO @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social, IDS Director says: “We strongly urge the Government to pause these cuts, set out a coherent vision for UK development leadership, and ensure that decisions are driven by evidence rather than urgency." shorturl.at/5XUVZ

One of our students has written a brilliant piece about escaping war in Sudan and the impact, particularly, of the conflict on women. "The deepest silence, however, surrounds the plight of Sudanese women...who is speaking about what is happening to women in Sudan?" www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/fro...

BREAKING 🚨: The government has just announced that they are ending new oil and gas exploration in the UK and have started a plan for workers and communities to transition away from fossil fuels. 🧵

Beautiful wintery morning today in west Sussex

Another nail in the coffin for US hegemony www.ft.com/content/79ea...

🌏 NEW: The UK government is failing to tackle global heating – so we’re forcing it to take action with Global Legal Action Network. Help fund the fight 👇 https://goodlaw.social/h5ik

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

Deadline extended! Are you a US-based public health academic working on issues of health equity? If your work is under threat, the Sanctuary for Health Justice initiative at IDS could help. You now have until 30 November to apply 👇 https://ids.pulse.ly/otlnmngso3 #PublicHealth #HealthEquity

"our presence in Global North institutions was not just about what we could learn but equally about what we could contribute" www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-afri...

Cuts in US and European development spending risk undoing the progress we've made on tackling malaria. This could cost millions of lives, and billions in lost economic growth www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"the Tutor will be someone qualified to support the educational and developmental needs of children from ultra-high-net-worth and royal families" 🤮🤮 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Super excited by this new IDS initiative!

Sums up #WorldFoodDay rather well

It's Prime Day so here's your regular reminder that: - Amazon has been exposed for throwing away millions of unused products each year - Amazon emits MORE CO2 than Hong Kong & Denmark - Jeff Bezos earns more in 1 MINUTE than many of his workers do in a year Overconsumption is KILLING our planet

Excellent series on overshooting 1.5°C warming. First 2 episodes VERY gloomy (1.5°C much worse than we thought and we're going well past that; collapse of Atlantic AMOC current looking more likely; and the follies of carbon capture tech). Dare I hope for some optimism in the final 2 episodes?

NEW | Solar and wind OUTPACED global electricity demand growth in the first half of 2025, leading to a fall in fossil fuels compared to this time last year ☀️🌪️ Record solar and steady wind growth is reshaping global power as renewables OVERTAKE coal for the first time. https://loom.ly/c-MNZSk

Critical thinking on development is under threat! Please sign this petition and show your support for the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), which has been hit by a sudden EU2.6m funding cut from the Flemish government.

10 years since the Sustainable Dev Goals were agreed: impossible to imagine that kind of consensus in today's world. The SDGs are damaged but still important, and new international alliances can bring new approaches Valuable insights from @petertaylor-uk.bsky.social, Director of @ids.ac.uk

Reparations are about justice, not just money. "If you don’t change the actual power dynamics, it’s little more than charity." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Great video. No mean feat to make jokes out of the arcane world of climate finance, and the myth that the private sector alone can fill the adaptation finance gap

After anti-corruption #GenZprotests and a deadly uprising forced the prime minister and government to resign, #Nepal searches for a new politics that can jettison its failed establishment. Commentary by Himal EIC @romangtm.bsky.social

Great thread. I think the majority of public understand risks of climate change and are crying out for a vision that is not 'pragmatic' (i.e. stuck in the past) but is ambitious, forward-looking and shows how we can create jobs and prosperity through the shift to a low-carbon economy.

Why does the US - and presumably the UK? - support Israel's crimes? Because "economic sovereignty in the periphery threatens capital accumulation in the core". Jason Hickel on how Israel acts as a military proxy for the US: jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

UK public debate on migration is divorced from reality. Any right minded person would think - from barrage of news - that its spiraling out of control. Yet data shows its falling dramatically. How did we allow far-right to manipulate facts like this?

This week's column. The details will make you gasp and rage. This massive desecration of nature is almost unbelievable, but it is happening in the UK right now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Famine in Gaza City has been officially confirmed today by the UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). IDS researcher Philip Proudfoot calls for the international system to act, and for “immediate, full, and unfettered” humanitarian access. https://ids.pulse.ly/p9qlfxex8g

"It is a famine openly promoted by some Israeli leaders as a weapon of war." Israel created this - but we have allowed it to happen.

Language is vital to identity and culture. Just back from the brilliant @greenmanfest.bsky.social, where Welsh was in abundance and artists also promoted Gaelic and Cornish. So this from the late Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o seems more relevant than ever: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Water connects us all through atmospheric moisture that travels across continents. Deforestation in the Amazon reduces rainfall as far as the Congo Basin. We need a new lens that treats the hydrological cycle as a global common good requiring collective action. 1/2

Back from two idyllic weeks in the French Alps Now sweltering in the office, and not yet feeling the work vibes So here's a nice pic of some mountain cows instead

Tomorrow's front page 📰 Convicted US felon to arrive in Scotland

Food systems work perfectly... ...for the handful of multinational corporations who control them, that is 😱 We need to focus less on profit, and more on people and planet. To achieve this we need government action and strong social movements, says @stuartgillespie.bsky.social

Just brilliant

Imagine writing 464 pages to analyse a problem, but failing to say anything about the actual cause of the problem.

The UK can learn so much from other countries about reducing inequality and improving society. Here, we outline how the Department for Health and Social Care can learn from Brazil, Canada and other countries which have led the way in community-based care.

"Life as we know it could grind to a halt without Bayan Obo." The town producing rare earth metals needed for our phones, solar panels and EVs - and where one tonne of minerals processed produces a staggering 2,000 tonnes of toxic waste. www.bbc.co.uk/news/resourc...

a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes' 1/

Huge changes taking place in development right now - declines in civic space and freedoms, emergence of polycrises, failures of multilateralism and cuts in funding. What should a development-focused research and teaching institute prioritise? Please share your thoughts - survey is very quick ⬇️

"A chant directed at a military force currently under investigation for war crimes by the International Criminal Court". So, nothing to do with anti-Semitism, then. Great analysis of the Bob Vylan controversy and how the real issue is the Mail on Sunday fabricating a quote.

Lawful to sell fighter jet parts that are being used to break international law? I'm no lawyer, but that sounds like a cop-out from UK courts www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ahead of #FFD4 my colleagues at @ictdtax.bsky.social have released an excellent brief on smarter, more equitable tax systems. Big aid drops mean tax is more important than ever - yet many lower-income countries collect way less tax / GDP than wealthier countries. www.ids.ac.uk/campaigns/th...

"Food is for people, and we need to have alternative economic systems that benefit our communities and those people who are underserved in communities" @deewoods.bsky.social shares her vision for transforming food systems in this latest video from the Food Equity Centre

Clothing companies need to take rapid and coordinated action to stop their products causing serious damage to wetlands in Ghana, polluting water and impacting fishing livelihoods. Brilliantly researched piece from Greenpeace Unearthed.