Tag Archives: poverty

Climate change and the post-2015 goals: Passing ships or all in the same boat?

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Anju Sharma

With 2015 potentially signaling a new chapter for the “global partnership” for poverty eradication and sustainable development, developing country leaders have to consider one question very carefully: do they really want to perpetuate the aid and charity paradigm that reduced them to unequal partners in this partnership for the last half century? This blog considers options, mainly in the context of the new report by the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts Sustainable Development Financing (ICESDF). Continue reading →

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Vulnerable India 6: Decentralisation and its discontents

Posted on June 13, 2014 by Anju Sharma

One of the most critical elements for successful adaptation by poor and vulnerable communities – if not the most critical element – will be their ability to identify local climate-related threats and respond quickly where response is possible, with locally … Continue reading →

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The Post-2015 “golden thread” must weave in a global strand

Posted on February 26, 2013 by Anju Sharma

It is time, already, to talk of “Post-2015”. For the uninitiated, Post-2015 refers to life after the 2015 deadline for meeting the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) adopted by the global community in 2010. A Post-2015 process is already underway. … Continue reading →

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Civil Society, Refuse to be Abused

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Anju Sharma

Soon after I posted my previous blog on observer participation in the Green Climate Fund (GCF), this arrived in my mailbox via the Earth Negotiations Bulletin:…stakeholders felt let down by IPBES. Some said that whereas the platform seemed to acknowledge … Continue reading →

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A fig leaf for climate finance

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Anju Sharma

Important additions to the global environmental governance architecture are afoot. The Green Climate Fund (GCF), launched in Durban in 2011 and expected to become a key channel for climate-related finance for developing countries in future, is currently under construction. A … Continue reading →

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About this blog

Posted on January 23, 2013 by Anju Sharma

It must be said. I won’t be silent. 
I’ve had enough of the hypocrisy; 
Please shed the silence with me. – Günter Grass I have been a fly on the evolving landscape of ‘global environmental governance’ for many years now. … Continue reading →

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