Global Systems & Policy Archive

As climate-related disasters become more frequent and severe, countries in the Global South continue to bear the biggest costs of the crisis. In the most vulnerable …

Israel, with the USʼs financial and military support, is subjecting Palestinians in Gaza to apocalyptic conditions on top of the worst bombardment in their history, with …

This major report sets out to answer the question of why governments in the Global South have routinely failed to achieve biodiversity goals and targets. Rather …

Climate crisis in Palestine cannot be detached from the Israeli occupation. The brutal and extensively documented apartheid regime that Israel imposes and maintains over Palestinians is …

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 …