Blended finance can be an important part of the climate and nature solution -- and there's lots of scope to scale it up. Our One Planet Labs/LSE report launched today in Glasgow shows how. Grantham LSE One Planet Summit #COP26 lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…

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Over 1.2M people from around the world have already signed this viral open letter against the war. Add your voice, and stand with the people of #Ukraine! #NoWar #StandWithUkraine #StandWithUkriane fb.avaaz.org/campaign/en/st…

Noting one small advantage of solar panels is that if you shell them, they break into chunks of glass.

This is brilliant

My new blog for World Economic Forum with colleagues Hans Peter Lankes and Roberta Pierfederici: These are the 4 steps we need to make economic growth sustainable, resilient and inclusive weforum.org/agenda/2022/07… via World Economic Forum

There should be some mechanism of accountability and personal liability for those knowingly deceiving the world on the climate disaster. Not just for historians. bbc.com/news/science-e…

#Hydrogen and ammonia fuels are key for cargo ships to achieve a 50% #emissions reduction by 2050, as dictated by International Maritime Organization. World Bank research identifies #India, among other #DevelopingEconomies, as competitive future green fuel suppliers. worldbank.org/en/news/featur…

Chile’s new constitution could enshrine some of the world’s most extensive indigenous rights. But that may also sink the document’s chances of getting approved. My piece in today’s issue: nytimes.com/2022/09/02/wor…

A #G20 report points to the need for #MDB reform in terms of capital efficiency for facing global challenges. 🌏 Join Center for Global Development & ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social's upcoming webinar ft. @MasoodCGD, @nleecgd, Sara Pantuliano - @sara-pantuliano.bsky.social Hans Peter Lankes to learn more: bit.ly/3pOGf0B

We need to step up finance for (sustainable) development! Looking forward to working together with a team that has added so much to our knowledge of this field over the years.

Check this on the need to reform the multilateral development banks. Essential listening for the #AnnualMeetings🎙️ with an excellent, expert, engaged cast. soundcloud.com/odi-podcasts/t… ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social #ThinkChangePodcast w/Jose Antonio Ocampo Rania A. Al Mashat Alexia Latortue & Annalisa Prizzon

See piece by Frannie Leautier, Nancy Lee and me in Project Syndicate today. We must scale up climate and development finance, the MDBs can play a crucial role, and they can increase their lending very considerably. Time to move. G20 South Africa World Bank project-syndicate.org/commentary/mul…

France's players are mysteriously falling ill ahead of the World Cup final. Coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe it's the magic of Argentina's witches...Jack Nicas, Natalie Alcoba and I, with spellbinding pics from Anita Pouchard Serra and Sebastian Lopez Brach: nyti.ms/3W5PwA3

The most feasible path to scaling up development and climate finance in the near term is by renewing, refocusing and expanding the multilateral development banks My take at Davos panel below weforum.org/events/world-e…

The #ReformMDBs agenda has focused on MICs, but global challenges matter for the poorest countries too. "Development finance is not a zero-sum game: MDB reform can and must benefit all countries", write Annalisa Prizzon & Hans Peter Lankes. #SpringMeetings buff.ly/3A3uLve

Public sources of #climate finance flows from developed to developing countries have grown to reach US$71 billion in 2020, but private flows remain small at a mere US$9.7 billion, say Hans Peter Lankes & Nick Robins. tinyurl.com/36afpvm5

G20 Finance Ministers need to inject urgency into efforts to transform & scale up the role of multilateral development banks in tackling global challenges & supporting sustainable development say Hans Peter Lankes Center for Global Development’s Nancy Lee Annalisa Prizzon & Nick Robins lse.ac.uk/granthaminstit…

The recycling of SDRs to MDBs has hit a roadblock at the Executive Board of the IMF . My blog explains that there is no good technical reason for the delay. Politicians need to push. cgdev.org/blog/imfs-shar…