Been back in Benin for 2 weeks.

Easy to miss from our normal vantage points but it’s always striking being reminded there’s a whole world out there almost entirely cut off from us and our wealth.

Billions of ppl, living on pittances, never meeting anyone from Global North

Talk of #climatechange is so often about

Tradeoffs😞

Giving things up🚗

Pitting the short against the long-term⏰

Here is a low cost win-win for #PeopleandPlanet

It involves #food 🥘🍲🧑‍🍳

Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli Tom Colicchio Chef Manish Mehrotra Bravo Top Chef International Energy Agency

This week, we heard a lot about the green carpet. Ya know, this one 👇

But what if we tell you there was a great green *wall* out there? One that could...
- Create 10 million jobs
- Restore parched land – a lot of it
- Fight climate change?!

A 🧵 on one of the coolest projects

Our policy team discouraged us from calling them psychic vaccines, but...😉💉

Cindy McCain, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme, said that based on what her organization has seen and experienced on the ground, northern Gaza is in a 'full-blown famine'. Since mid-March, the United Nations has been claiming that northern Gaza is

I find it weird that newspapers characterize students as being “pro-Palestinian” as opposed to anti whatever you call this.

woah Pulitzer Prize board said this ❤️✊

A concrete illustration of why a UK law exposing the foreign owners of real estate matters. Kudos to @occrp for doing the legwork to expose this. occrp.org/en/investigati…

Cocoa farmers earn just 6% of the final value of a chocolate bar. Millions of them earn <$1 per day.

Côte d’Ivoire receives 4% of the global chocolate industry's $100 billion annual take, despite producing half of the world’s cocoa.

More here: act.one.org/mailings/view/…

I would have hoped that in 2024 a central topic of the public conversation would be pandemic preparedness.

I would have expected that we would all be keen to make the investments that make it less likely to suffer through another pandemic, with more deaths and lockdowns.

Back from the IMF/World Bank Spring meetings, where — six weeks after the beginning of the work at the G20 on a coordinated taxation of the super-rich — there was palpable 'tax the rich' energy in the room

A few notable developments 🧵

🔴Everyone's got s**** to deal with🔴in the The Wall Street Journal

President Macron cut France's international development aid budget by €742 million

Bewildering: in 2023 he asked for 'a financing breakthrough so that no country has to choose between reducing poverty & combating climate change'

New track just dropped and it's 🔥🔥

This is about so much more than just lights:

- It's schoolchildren who can do their homework after dark.
- Women who aren't giving birth by flashlight.
- Girls walking home on streets illuminated by light.

It's about opportunity and choice.

SHOCKING STAT

🔥Last year money flows to developing countries turned negative.🔥

💵$50bn dollars a year is now flowing 🔥OUT OF🔥 the poorest and most vulnerable countries.💵

What’s going on and how can World Bank and @IMFnews fix it?

🧵

#SpringMeetings #WBGMeetings

It gets worse, Joe 🙃

Our analysis revealed that 2/3 of international 'climate finance' isn't related to climate or is never delivered. datacommons.staging.one.org/climate-financ…

Where is the World Bank's climate finance going in Senegal?

Refurbishment of a luxury resort, majority-owned by the Qatari government ✅

A fishing village just down the coast, whose beach is dissapearing❌

✍️: Jack Thompson Matteo Civillini

climatechangenews.com/2024/04/16/wor…

In the UK, the tax benefit has been canceled, and rich foreigners are fleeing the country. #Britain 's Chancellor of the Exchequer surprisingly scrapped a 225-year-old benefit that allowed wealthy foreigners living in the country to avoid paying tax on overseas earnings. 🧵👇
#UK