Development Today

When #Norway's @BjellandEriksen signed an extension of a NOK multi-billion #forest scheme with #Indonesia, he was not aware his counterpart @RajaJuliAntoni had picked himself & 11 party members to oversee the funds with hefty payments from the scheme. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Brazilian Ministry of Finance pushes back against critics of Tropical Forest Forever Facility #TFFF #Brazil #rainforest open.substack.com/pub/developmen…

The lawsuit calls for the immediate cancellation of an Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement that commits a group of companies - #Amazon, #Bayer, #BCG, #Capgemini, H&M Group, and the #Walmart Foundation - to buy USD 180m worth of forest #carboncredits. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

The lawsuit casts uncertainty over the Norwegian endeavour. The prosecutor wants the #Pará state to pay “collective moral damages” amounting to USD 35m, arguing #indigenous communities were not consulted prior to the signing of the deal. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

A Brazilian federal prosecutor is suing the state of #Pará, host of #COP30, for damages to #indigenous communities caused by a #forestcarbon purchase agreement worth USD 180m. #Norway has funded much of the architecture facilitating the deal. #Brazil development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Opinion II - Obinna Onyekwena: The #cleanenergy transition brings heavy human costs & new forms of dependency for #Africa. A country like #Nigeria must be pragmatic, use #naturalgas to drive #industrialization and avoid colonial technology dependency. development-today.com/archive/2025...

Onyekwena: “The pursuit of a ‘green’ lifestyle in the Global North is enabled by outsourcing the environmental degradation and #humanrights abuses to the Global South.” It is a transition from one set of externalities to another. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

This extractivism swaps #oil #geopolitics for mineral vulnerabilities dominated by #China. 80% of renewable energy patents are held by Northern firms, trapping nations in low-value roles without control of innovation or production, Onyekwena argues. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

#Africa must charter a sovereign, cost-effective #energy path reflecting its needs. “The true emergency is development stagnation. The global #EnergyTransition must be reframed, as a pragmatic journey toward sustainable prosperity for all,” he writes. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Onyekwena argues #Africa cannot afford to be caught in a transition model designed to solve Europe’s insecurities or underwrite Western tech empires. Calls for #energy strategies rooted in developmental realism, technological pluralism, and global equity.development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Op-ed: #Africa must recognise that #EnergyTransition models exported from Europe and the US are shaped by their strategic interests and carry double standards. “We must deconstruct the narratives being sold to us,” writes @obinnaonyekwena. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Op-ed: #Africa must confront that #EnergyTransition models exported from Europe and the US are shaped by their strategic interests and rest on double standards. “We must deconstruct the narratives being sold to us", writes @obinnaonyekwena. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Last-minute rule changes spark anger as revamp of Sweden’s civil society funding regime nears completion. CSO-processen får internationell uppmärksamhet. @DevTodayJournal (tyvärr låst artikel) development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Could a Japanese UN executive become the agency’s first Asian head, or could one of two Scandinavian candidates seize the helm? France is also in the ring and a former Belgian PM @alexanderdecroo has inserted himself in the race as a favourite. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

There are 5 known contenders in the race for the top job at @UNDP, all from donor countries: #Japan, #Denmark, #Norway, #Belgium & #France. There is still time for a dark horse to join. The deadline for applications has been extended. #UNDP development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

PM Jonas Gahr Støre says #Norway will uphold a high level of support for #Gavi, despite experts’ calls to modernize #globalhealth priorities towards a more holistic policy focusing on universal health care, #healthsystem and country ownership. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Development Today has learned that a proposal to better balance Norwegian funding to the various global health initiatives, including a reduction in support to @gavi, had been prepared by officials in Norad and the Foreign Ministry, but Støre rejected it. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

At a time when aid budgets are being slashed across the board, @gavi - the financial powerhouse in #globalhealth - aims to raise USD 9b to expand its mission. @BillGates has reached out to old friends in Oslo to bolster the alliance. #sdgs #vaccines development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

A large group of mainly European donors distance themselves from the newly established Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a private initiative backed by Israel and the United States. All five Nordic governments back the statement. #GazaWar development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Denmark's Lars Løkke Rasmussen after EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting: “There is a large majority of EU countries that are ready to take measures if Israel does not take action, and that majority is growing day by day”. #CeasefireNow #GazaForcedFamine development-today.com/archive/2025/d…

Opinion: @FAO's @yurdi_yasmi about #bees & #FoodSecurity “Bees are the tireless workers that sustain the crops and wild plants that feed us, protect biodiversity, and keep our agrifood systems resilient. When they falter, so could we”. development-today.com/archive/2025/d…