Farewell, then, the 2019-24 Parliament

A memorable but uncomfortable one for the civil service

Overall emoji verdict?

Minister-civil service relations 📉⤵️
Reform and capability 🤞💤🤷‍♂️
Accountability 😐
Pay and morale 😤
Diversity 👍

International research partnerships have been disrupted in recent years. So I’m pleased The British Academy is offering up to £50k to help research offices / management functions build equitable partnerships for international research collaboration thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/oda-re…

Governments around the world are beefing up defence spending but funding for peace-building work is at a 15 year low. Instead let's invest in conflict prevention & resolution work so less defense spending is needed. Glad to join interesting conversations at European Institute of Peace (EIP) yesterday

Great thread this on the OECD's climate finance report

Will make some minor quibbles in the comments!

1) Great thread on the new OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives climate report finding that $100bn has been passed. Ian Mitchell is right that it is weird that bilateral climate finance increased despite ODA falling in 2022 (excl. refugees and Ukraine).

A few nerdy caveats though:

5. Still, a chunk of the $116bn was achieved by redirecting existing development budgets - not new and additional finance.

Total development finance only increased by $67.2bn from 2009 to 2022. So that's the maximum of additional climate finance.

4. But there was a significant progress towards the goal to double adaptation - with $32.4bn provided (the goal is $40bn by 2025)

3. As in previous years, climate finance was predominantly loan-based (69%)

2. What's remarkable is that - excluding refugees and Ukraine - aid (ODA) actually fell in 2022 - but climate finance rose by 29%.

Least Developed Countries got more climate finance; but OECD confirm LDC aid fell by 6% in the same year

Thanks goodness - some sensible thinking on the impact of AI on the economy.

Estimates total productivity improvement less than 1% over a decade.

#G7 Finance meeting ends in Stresa with the final Communiqué adopted g7italy.it/wp-content/upl…

While we wait for the G7 Summit on 13-15 June, what are we left with?

A 'fritto misto' (mixed bag) on #climate and #development : 🧵

Have we reached the $100bn climate finance goal? 🌤️💰

In NEW analysis, Ian Mitchell and Edward Wickstead show that—for the first time—over $100bn in total climate finance went from rich to poor countries in 2022.

Learn what this might mean for #COP29 :
bit.ly/3VbGWSf