Reflections on the relationship (?) between colonialism and ‘Western’ welfare States …
Colonialism and solidarity | Wall Street International Magazine (wsimag.com)
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by Tom Coffin
One of the first statements in the 97-paragraph agreement at the end of the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference (COP 26) acknowledges that nations have an obligation to respect human rights as they address global warming. Along with more than 190 other countries, the United States endorsed the agreement with Climate Envoy John Kerry declaring, “No one is exaggerating when they call this an existential threat.”
South Centre
By Abdul Muheet Chowdhary and Sol Picciotto
The architecture of international taxation at present is fragmented among multiple institutions. The UN Tax Committee, the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) and the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes are some of the key institutions which set multiple and overlapping international tax standards. The lack of a genuinely global international tax body has long been a lacunae in the international economic system and a disadvantage for developing countries, who are unable to participate in international tax standard setting as full and equal participants. This has been borne out most recently by the Two Pillar Solution for taxing the digital economy that has come from the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework. The G-77’s renewed demand for a global tax body shows the issue continues to remain a priority for developing countries.
This Policy Brief provides a way for bringing the existing plethora of institutions under unified, universal and democratic control through a UN Framework Convention on Tax Cooperation (UN FCTC).
The South Centre | Tax Cooperation Policy Brief 21, November 2021
More than 30 nations, including core coal producing countries, have signed a Declaration committing them to strategies that ensure that workers, businesses and communities are supported as countries transition to greener economies.
The Just Transition Declaration , agreed at the UN Climate Change Conference in Scotland, recognizes the need to ensure that no one is left behind in the transition to net zero economies – particularly those working in sectors, cities and regions reliant on carbon-intensive industries and production.
Read the Declaration
This is also on social justice: a moving film on and with Jan Blommaert, a Flemish academic who died earlier this year.
He has some interesting lessons on the role of academia.
Just watch: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1331790983926014
The Guardian summarizes the main points of the agreement reached in Glasgow by the delegates
By Chris Mooney, Juliet Eilperin, Desmond Butler, John Muyskens, Anu Narayanswamy and Naema Ahmed
Malaysia’s latest catalogue of its greenhouse gas emissions to the United Nations reads like a report from a parallel universe. The 285-page document suggests that Malaysia’s trees are absorbing carbon four times faster than similar forests in neighboring Indonesia.
The surprising claim has allowed the country to subtract over 243 million tons of carbon dioxide from its 2016 inventory — slashing 73 percent of emissions from its bottom line.
Want to know how much a ton of greenhouse gases really amounts to?
by Eurodad
G20 leaders met in Rome last weekend (30 and 31 October) to address what they termed “today’s most pressing global challenges”. In the end they took no meaningful new decisions. The photo opportunity with G20 leaders throwing a coin into the Trevi fountain was a potent symbol of what the Summit turned out to be: wishful thinking without any action.
Beyond the health crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected economies and people’s
livelihoods around the world. Experts forecast an additional 250 million people in extreme poverty by
20301, while the consequences of the pandemic are resulting in a 10th of the global population suffering
from hunger, amounting to 720 to 811 million people worldwide.
Many political leaders and decision makers now realize that well-designed social protection systems have a transformative effect on people living in poverty.
Read the Policy Brief of the Global Coalition for Social Protection Floors
ETC Group / Silvia Ribeiro will be tracking events at UNFCCC’s COP 26 in Glasgow over the next two weeks, both in person and on-line, and aim to keep you informed about events as they unfold!
We’ll be watching out for and speaking out about three key traps we see lurking at COP 26:
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