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Time to invest more in women
Oped, María Fernanda Espinosa and Anita Bhatia, Published on 07/07/2025
» The Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) in Seville, which ended on Thursday, has taken place at a time of escalating debt crises, rising poverty, declining food security and proliferating climate-related damage. These crises are all exacerbated by deep reductions in official development assistance (ODA), and they all disproportionately affect women and girls, especially in developing countries.
Boosting the clean energy push
Oped, Patricia Espinosa & Lourdes Melgar, Published on 05/12/2023
» The world stands at a critical juncture in the fight against climate change. Either we drastically accelerate the clean-energy transition, or our fast-dwindling chances of preventing global temperatures from surpassing 1.5° Celsius above pre-industrial levels will be destroyed. Few understand the stakes better than Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries.
A vision for global cooperation
Oped, Maria Fernanda Espinosa & Danilo Turk, Published on 28/10/2021
» The world faces a range of serious threats -- from exclusionary nationalism to great-power competition to growing inequality -- that are preventing the international community from working together to solve other complex challenges, such as the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines and the accelerating pace of climate change. But global crises require global solutions, and with his highly anticipated report, "Our Common Agenda", UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has outlined a new vision for multilateral cooperation.
COP26 to emphasise move from intention to action
Oped, Patricia Espinosa, Published on 26/10/2021
» Evidence of the devastation that awaits us if we fail to address climate change continues to mount. Recent catastrophic flooding in Asia and Western Europe, record-shattering temperatures in North America, and raging wildfires in southern Europe -- all of which mirror disasters that developing countries have faced in recent years -- remind us that no country is safe. The future of each one depends on the actions of all.