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Global South return home 'empty-handed' as summit delivers disappointing blow
As the curtain closes on the global development summit – the Fourth Financing for Development conference - in Seville today, ActionAid has expressed disappointment at the underwhelming outcome. The
New report by ActionAid exposes devastating human cost of HSBC’s climate damage
A damning new report from ActionAid and research group Profundo reveals that HSBC’s financing of fossil fuels and industrial agriculture over three years exposed the planet to a shocking 357 million
Thousands of activists take to the streets demanding urgent debt cancellation ahead of global summit
Arthur Larok, the Secretary General of ActionAid, who participated in the march, said, "As we marched, we made it clear that the time for empty rhetoric is over; the world needs action on ending the
The global development summit is falling for empty and unproven solutions, says ActionAid
Reacting to the official opening of the Financing for Development Conference, ActionAid has slammed the summit for falling for empty and unproven solutions anchored to the private sector. This is
The killing of protesters in Kenya is a “betrayal of democratic principles”
ActionAid is deeply concerned about the heavy-handed response to yesterday’s protests in Kenya. Protesters have been again killed at a moment when the country was commemorating the devastating loss of
"Climate talks are facing uncertain times"
"Rich countries’ continued refusal to put real climate finance on the table means that climate talks are facing uncertain times.
Financing a Public Future
Less than one fifth of the sustainable development goal targets set a decade ago are presently on track for achievement in 2030 and a major cause of this is the continued chronic underfunding of
Bonn is heading for a confusing combination of good, bad and ugly outcomes
Even worse, under the Baku to Belém Roadmap to £1.3 trillion, rich countries are opportunistically pushing their private finance instruments to supposedly ‘fill the gap’ in funding. But rather than
ActionAid warns the fate of millions ‘hangs in the balance’ as governments fail to deliver at finance summit
According to a recent study by ActionAid, 75% of low-income countries are in debt crisis, negating critical investments in education, health and climate action to service foreign debts. UNFFD4 was
“Private Finance is a Trojan horse,” designed to scale up extraction in the Global South
Teresa Anderson, Global Lead on Climate Justice at ActionAid, said, “A consistent message we hear from rich countries at climate talks is that their pockets are empty, there’s no public finance, and
