Via Devex: www.devex.com/news/global-...

Stiglitz on Project Syndicate: www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d... Re 'Democracia Siempre' (Democracy always).

kdecoster.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-r... Short blog from earlier this week.

Via the Conversation: theconversation.com/will-the-g20...

And as far as "engagement" and "the algorithm" is concerned: my experience is that you'll see the posts on the topics you like and RT, and you can turn off replies to your texts for safety. But policymakers may be reading YOUR supposedly unpopular tweets, you don't know.

Ok because I am a glutton for punishment, I need to say that I fervently wish climate people would rejoin X. I can't say how I know this, but you must believe me that Dem policymakers still read X to see what's happening and get new ideas. We are ceding some important ground, and it's not helping.

Via Nature (Editorial): www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Niet alleen bombardementen, maar ook het toenemende tekort aan geneesmiddelen maakt slachtoffers in Gaza. Uit onderzoek door het Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde blijkt dat minder dan de helft van de onderzochte middelen voldoende voorradig is. www.mo.be/nieuws/nieuw...

World Bank (brief) : www.worldbank.org/en/topic/hea...

Call me old-fashioned but i would prefer a world where we have a mix of both narratives.

Via TWN: www.twn.my/title2/healt...

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/u... Yes, obviously.

www.statnews.com/2025/09/30/w... The picture once again telling you all you need to know.

Blog: On reimagining global resilience & shared solidarity from a (national) ‘social contract’ point of view kdecoster.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-r...

Key question: " ...if people already can’t agree on the national interest (after elections), why would you expect them to agree on a global interest (and contribute to it in a fair way)?"

Widespread disruptions to the delivery of lifesaving US foreign assistance including antiretrovirals and malaria medicines laid out in this: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Key question: " ...if people already can’t agree on the national interest (after elections), why would you expect them to agree on a global interest (and contribute to it in a fair way)?"

Quick blog: kdecoster.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-r...

new blog by @benjaminfaude.bsky.social and @jacktaggart.bsky.social on the UN SDGs, drawing on a recent special issue in @globalpolicy.bsky.social lots of great contributions, including a paper by myself and Jack Taggart on institutional hybridity in global plastics governance

How to make United Nations high-level meetings work for global health www.devex.com/news/how-to-... by K Milton et al. With 5 recommendations.

Aid is political. It’s time for philanthropy to take a stand: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... (@newhumanitarian.bsky.social) One for the Gates Foundation. Among others.

Via ODI: odi.org/en/insights/...

www.standaard.be/opinies/voer... No brainer inderdaad.

By Robert Reich: robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-t...

Via Nature News: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Merk dat Tom Waes zich vooral beperkte tot de backpacker trail in Bolivia gisteren. Al heb ik maar met een half oog gekeken.

Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/environment/... Research is here: sentientmedia.org/climate-news...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... Also with a view on AI now.

Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s.... Ffs sake.

Medics on the move for what matters: life and health for all www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... IHP Feat article by @rravinetto.bsky.social.

Check out this week's IHP news 847: #UNGA80 High-level week: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u...

www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... I do agree with the number one of this list 👍.

Via Le Monde: www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...

Stay tuned for a new IHP newsletter issue tomorrow - Friday 26 September. To subscribe to the weekly knowledge management tool: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org

Bertram: "Global health is increasingly reminding me of the Security Council, where there has been an urgent call and proposals for reform for decades, but the existing members themselves have a veto power to block any reform. ...."

The Lethal Consensus: How Liberals Lost the War of Ideas www.socialeurope.eu/the-lethal-c... Well worth a read.

www.theglobalfund.org/en/news/2025... Ridiculous headline - the 1 billion is mostly coming from the Gates Foundation. High time to let the private sector 'contribute' in another way. #globaltaxjustice

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries ➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Via the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Yep.

Think we know which country is going to hell first.

"Mr Sanchez added that countries must “face the reality that we have in the eastern flank of Europe, which is this neo-imperialism of (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, vis-a-vis countries such as Ukraine, but not create this false, or fake trade-off between aid and defence expenditure.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Guess we already figured by now : )

Via Climate Change News: www.climatechangenews.com/2025/09/24/b... (gated)

Listening (virtually) to 5 Elders. Contrast a bit big with the current geriatric leadership "running the show" on this planet (deep sigh). #UNGA80

Via the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...