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My takeaways on where climate humanitarianism policy is at after a big few days at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. More to come... thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/…

I did not leave COP29 in Baku feeling optimistic. Quite the opposite in fact. Here's my reflections on the outcome, the $$$ machinery accompanying COP29, and what it means for int'l cooperation in the emerging geopolitical landscape: thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/…

“If you can’t see it for the circus it is, you’re part of the problem.” From COPtimist to sceptic, Will Worley reflects on the dysfunction that was #COP29 – and tries to scrub away the sense of “being somewhat unclean for having participated” at all. thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/…

Huge investigation from The New Humanitarian colleagues It's about a series of killings of Palestinians who volunteered to help UN aid distribution in northern Gaza, as the region approached famine earlier this year ... and the consequences of their deaths thenewhumanitarian.org/investigations…

2025 will be a big year for the nascent Loss + Damage Fund... It's developing policy, finalising the institutional stuff, and may even do its first much needed response to a climate disaster. But there's a big $-shaped caveat... My latest: thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/…

UN Emergency Relief Chief courting Elon 👀

Our Editorial in The New Humanitarian: We say to aid agencies, history will judge your failure to call out israel war crimes as complicity. Speak Out! refuse to be instrumentalised. thenewhumanitarian.org/editorial/2024…

The effects of climate change and conflict are at the top of the risk list for humanitarians At COP29, I took a look at where this policy landscape is at ... and where it's going next thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2024/…

UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte Rachel Kyte (+ COP30 CEO Ana Toni) both tell #CHevents there are "no conversations about how to pause the [global energy] transition" When questioned on this, Kyte says important to distinguish between "signals and noise"

"The fundamental changes needed today are too important to leave to a conclave who have been remarkably effective at preserving power, resources, and control through successive rounds of reform." Solid recs frm Lydia Poole on big humanitarian 'reset' thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025/0…

Reminds me of some criticisms I've heard recently of policies in the aid world too - basically saying intersectional type approaches are often counter productive. The aid budget crisis means "focus" (touted here as cure) could be forced alot sooner than for British state tho...

Everyone knows about the damage USAID cuts are doing *right now* to lifesaving programs. But there is more pernicious, long term damage being wrought too - including to the only area for which humanitarians have had much optimism: thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2025/…

Today's spring statement quietly revealed that the vast majority of the aid cut the PM announced for 2027 will actually happen in 2026. In fact, 2026/27 will see a 27% cut. That is steeper than the Boris Johnson aid cut in 2021. A short thread on the figures:

⚡️BREAKING NEWS ⚡️: The Fund for Responding to #LossAndDamage has an official website. 👏 🔗Find it here: frld.org

After years of green advocacy, NGOs are now scrubbing climate change from their websites thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2025/04/2… Great piece by Irwin Loy

I remember a time when the Labour Party used to use my reporting on the Boris aid cuts to criticise the government ft.com/content/efbc87…

Six weeks since a devastating earthquake Millions in need A purported ceasefire continually violated From aid going to armed groups to covert humanitarianism, #whatsgoingoninmyanmar ? thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/2025/…

You've never seen humanitarian storytelling like this ... The LEBANON DISPLACEMENT DIARIES explores what it's like to be uprooted by violence, and the effects that linger long after the bombs stop falling ... interactive.thenewhumanitarian.org/stories/2025/0…