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The following blog is based on a speech the author presented to the UK-Pacific High Level Dialogue on Climate Change in July 2021, which has been adapted and updated for this website.
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Inaction at COP26 to cost lives and livelihoods
<em>A blog by Christine Awiti, Economic Advisor, Commonwealth Secretariat</em>
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Two challenges, One solution: Debt for Climate Swaps, an Innovative Financing Instrument Resolving a Dual Threat
The Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has spoken today urging the international community to make crucial changes to how it delivers finance to developing nations, proposing a new system that moves beyond the use of GDP as the sole criteria for receiving certain types of support.
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New global index seeks to transform how developing nations are supported
23 June 2021 to 24 June 2021
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Which international mechanisms can individuals, communities and affected countries use to obtain redress for harm caused by those most responsible for the devastating consequences of climate change, the illegal and illicit exploitation of natural resources, and the trade and use of harmful substances?
Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has urged member countries to integrate sustainable land use management into their national climate action plans, with a focus on nature-based solutions, on the road to the UN Climate Change Conference COP26 this November.
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Commonwealth to bolster action on sustainable land use management on the road to COP26