#ldcs — Public Fediverse posts

Lazarus McCarthy Chakwera, President of Malawi: “We need decision and action on debt, for like most Least Developed Countries, Malawi is in distress because its debt is unsustainable, and so our call to action on behalf of all #LDCs on this matter remains the same: Cancel the Debts! Cancel the Debts! Cancel the Debts!”

"The future of global governance", a special report by Global Policy Watch: https://www.globalpolicywatch.org/futureofglobalgovernance/index/

#COP28 dangled the prospect of #FossilFuelPhaseOut and then snatched it away.

Key text: https://unfccc.int/sites/default/files/resource/GST_2.pdf
Updates: https://www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-tracking-negotiating-texts-at-cop28-climate-summit/

#COP26 decisions aligned with oil & gas industry in the North; #COP28 makes tiny concessions to the South, but includes all the oily language - when you hear 'Carbon capture' think capture of states and process.
#COP29 in Azerbaijan, another petrostate.

Should #LDCs, CVF and #Aosis accept baby steps or call out fossil lobbyists?

#HoldTheLine

#Consultancy Notice – Development of a Regional #Training Needs #Assessment for Multilateral #Environmental Agreements

OBJECTIVE: to address the sound #management of chemicals & #waste in Least Developed Countries ( #LDCs ) and Small Island Developing States ( #SIDS ).

- Open to: Regional and International Experts
- Duration: Nine (9) months
- Start date: November 2023
- Language: #English
- Deadline: 25th September 2023

+INFO: https://www.bcrc-caribbean.org/opportunities/consultancy-notice-tna-meas/

#jobs #consultant #experts

Cambridge University Press, publisher of Social Science History, waives open access fees for journal articles by scholars in 107 low- & middle-income countries. The editors welcome your submissions! https://afp.com/en/news/1312/cambridge-open-access-fees-waived-low-and-middle-income-countries-202304100050211
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-science-history
@sociology @politicalscience @economics @geography @anthropology #history #histodons #OA #openaccess #LDCs #SocialScience

Bhutan will finally graduate out of the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) which was long overdue. How did this happen? Watch to know more.

#NewsMo #Bhutan #LDCs https://t.co/CDOae4GLMh

#MastIndia #MastodonIndians #India @mastodonindians

#LDC Group Chair Madeleine Diouf Sarr highlights in Nature the critical importance of progress on #lossanddamage at #COP27 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03474-1 she highlights the limits to #adaptation and calls for establishing a fund to address loss and damage in developing countries, particularly those most vulnerable to climate change, including #LDCs. Success at #cop27 will require ambitious action on these issues. #climatecrisis #climate