The Global Call for Reparations and Real Solutions is a campaign that emphasises the need for reparations for the exploitation and ecosystem degradation related to historical and enduring injustices inflicted by the global North on the global South. Central to the campaign is demanding that the global North countries pay up for their colonial plunder…
by IBON International Foundation Inc. August 05, 2024 IBON International Foundation Inc. welcomes the opportunity to respond to the call for Parties and Non-Party Stakeholders to submit their views for the 11th Technical Expert Dialogue and the third meeting under the ad hoc work programme of the New Collective Quantified Goal on climate finance (NCQG)….
A postmortem article on the outcomes of the 60th Session of the UNFCCC Subsidiary Bodies From June 3 to 13, 2024, the 60th Session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Subsidiary Bodies (SB60) took place in Bonn, Germany. If anything emerged from the talks, those were clear battle lines between developing…
IBON International Update / 11th APFSDBy Jax Bongon From February 20 to 23, 2024 member states of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP), international organisations, civil society, and other stakeholders convened for the annual Asia Pacific Forum on Sustainable Development (APFSD) to assess the region’s progress towards…
In December 2023, governments of 195 countries flocked to Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to attend the 28th Conference of Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Amid rising temperatures and intensifying climate impacts, as well as a humanitarian crisis in Palestine, COP28 was at the centre of a growing…
IBON International welcomes the opportunity to submit our input in the UN Environment Programme’s First Global Consultation on ‘nature-based solutions’ (NBS). IBON International, as a service institution closely working with people’s movements across the global South, registers our concerns with what has long been regarded by civil society as a distraction from the real solutions…
IBON International statement on the launch of ADB’s IF-CAP May 4, 2023 (Incheon) – The 56th Annual Meeting of the Asian Development Bank is happening from May 2 to 5 at Songdo Convensia, in Incheon, Korea – the first onsite annual meeting of the Bank since the COVID-19 pandemic. All eyes are on the Bank…
IBON International Update2023 IMF-WBG Spring Meetings WASHINGTON DC, April 17 – From April 10 to 16, finance ministers, central bank governors, and representatives of civil society groups trooped to Washington D.C. for the week-long International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group (IMF-WBG) Spring Meetings. In the meetings, the WBG in particular looked into “evolving” its…
IBON International has advanced a People-Powered Climate Action as a framework and collective resistance against dominant modes of oppressive climate politics. With climate justice at its core, a people-powered climate action aims to spotlight the unequal ways in which climate change impacts regions, communities, and the people who have done the least to cause our…
The impacts of climate change are intensifying. The range of impacts include sea-level rise, increased temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and increased frequency of extreme weather events such as droughts or floods. For instance, the last eight years have seen the highest temperatures on record. The catastrophic effects of the climate crisis are most visible in…
