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Empowering Youth in Small States at forefront of Commonwealth COP26 agenda

Yesterday, 20 world-class experts from around the Commonwealth joined two virtual consultations focussed on how to help attract sustainable finance for investment in youth and biodiversity in SIDS.

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Finance Ministers call for change to development finance architecture to fight climate crisis and address debt vulnerabilities

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Inaction at COP26 will cost lives and livelihoods

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Inaction at COP26 to cost lives and livelihoods

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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Two challenges, One solution: Debt for Climate Swaps, an Innovative Financing Instrument Resolving a Dual Threat

<em>A blog by Christine Awiti, Economic Advisor, Commonwealth Secretariat</em>

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New global index seeks to transform how developing nations are supported

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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Access to justice for victims of climate change and international environmental crimes

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?

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Commonwealth to bolster action on sustainable land use management on the road to COP26

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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