Global Systems & Policy Archive

The US and UK militaries are two of the institutions most responsible for climate crisis in the world. Only a reparative approach can begin to account …

At this moment, the United States is advancing sweeping federal actions that could fund critical climate solutions or sink us further towards climate disaster. However, the …

Blended finance has become a dominant paradigm in development and environmental finance over the last 15 years. The main idea is that scarce public resources will …

Green Bonds have been promoted as a financial tool for development banks and countries across the Global South to access money for climate action. But as …

For the first time, there are potential decisions by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that address the connections …

Debt swaps aim to alleviate these pressures by offering some level of debt relief in return for commitments to devote freed up financial resources toward achieving …

Water is life, but it is also big business. Over the last 20 years activists and scholars have noted an alarming rise in the financialization of …

After an excruciating year of negotiations and ceaseless pressure from the climate movement, Senators Manchin and Schumer came to a deal: the Inflation Reduction Act. If …

The world faces twin debt crises. On the one hand, a well-publicized financial debt crisis looms for countries across the Global South, limiting governments’ ability to …