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🌍 A Major Step Toward Global Accountability in the Minerals Sector: The #COP16 Colombia Declaration 🌱 By calling for a binding international agreement on traceability, transparency, and accountability, the Colombia Declaration from #COP16 reflects a welcome commitment to overseeing environmental and social impacts across the mineral supply chain. 💪🔍 This commitment also provides key momentum for the UNSG Critical Energy Transition Minerals Panel’s Actionable Recommendation 2 - which aims to build a comprehensive framework for due diligence, transparency, and accountability throughout the sector. With Colombia’s bold stance on the need for binding agreements, we are laying essential groundwork for a global traceability system that ensures accountability all along the mineral supply chains worldwide." 🌐⚒️ Read more: Colombia Declaration 🔗https://lnkd.in/d6PhnbMK UNSG Critical Energy Transition Mineral Panels’s Recomendations🔗https://lnkd.in/eHvNgw_8 #COP16

🌍 Ahead of #COP29 in Baku, several United Nations Special Rapporteurs have called on Azerbaijan to ensure the safe participation of environmental defenders and uphold international human rights law throughout the event. ✊ How can we have meaningful climate discussions when Azerbaijan continues to silence key members of civil society? 🤔 We call for the immediate and unconditional release of Dr. Gubad Ibadoghlu, who was violently and wrongfully arrested over a year ago. 📢 #FreeGubad Gubad’s case is part of an alarming wave of arrests, prosecution, and detention of human rights and environmental defenders in Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan must #FreeGubad immediately! ❕ Read the full statement ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eJtwZVdi Michel FORST, Mary Lawlor, Gina Romero

We're at #COP16 this week, advocating for a just, sustainable, and inclusive energy future. It has now become obvious that the world needs to turn to cleaner energy sources. However, the real question is: how just will this transition be? 🤔 Historically, marginalised communities have been left out of decision-making processes. As we move toward cleaner energy sources, it's critical that these groups are not just impacted but empowered to have a say in shaping the future. Their voices must be heard, and their access to the benefits of this transition must be guaranteed. 🗣️ We’re committed to ensuring that this energy transition serves everyone, particularly those who have been most vulnerable and overlooked. Read more in this blog by Dr Ketakandriana Rafitoson, PhD https://lnkd.in/ec8csFyJ #WorldEnergyDay #JustTransition #Sustainability #InclusiveFuture

There is an increase in climate finance going to MENA countries to develop cleaner energy systems. This bears fiscal risks. To ensure that climate finance truly benefits populations, the International Monetary Fund must ensure transparency, accountability and civil society participation in all its projects. This is the message delivered yesterday by our MENA regional coordinator Pierre Saade to IMF's staff and ED!

Today, we are at #COP16 in Colombia to amplify the voice of the voiceless! The Group for a Just Energy Transition in Latin America and the Caribbean is calling for a future that prioritises justice, sustainability and inclusivity. The LAC region can pave the way and ensure a feminist, community-led energy transition to cleaner energy. A transformation that leaves no one behind and guarantees energy access to all. Collective civil society action is key to ensure this happens. Read the blog by Dr Ketakandriana Rafitoson, PhD: https://lnkd.in/ec8csFyJ Aroa de la Fuente López Laura Montaño Fundación Terram Foro Región Central Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación AIDA - Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense FIMA ONG Ezio Costa Cordella Yeny Rodriguez Junco Cesar Gamboa Athayde Motta Aída Gamboa Balbín Santiago Cané Telye Heine Yurisch Toledo Diego di Risio

Great achievement from members of the PWYP MENA group advocating for a just #energytransition! Well done to MENA Fem Movement For Economic, Development And Ecological Justice and their partners for getting the #IMF to reduce surcharges on loans. A first step towards fairer international finance! To understand why these surcharges are problematic, read this op-ed by Shereen Talaat from MENAFem, and Dan Beeton from Center for Economic and Policy Research: https://lnkd.in/e4kzqCFg

❗Did you miss the latest blog from our Exec. Director Ketakandriana Rafitoson, PhD published in Business Day? It's all about how Africa can leverage it's vast mineral resources 🤔 📣 Don't worry, you can still read it here: https://lnkd.in/dT4KbJwu

Watch PWYP Libya member, Hala Bugaighis from Jusoor Center for Studies and Development addressing the UN Security Council in a powerful speech highlighting issues of women's rights, accountability and civic space in Libya 👏 Watch from minute 16-25 to see her full speech 📽️ https://lnkd.in/dJDwv7Y9

📢 The children of Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu are calling on UK PM Keir Starmer to raise their father’s case at the upcoming #COP29Azerbaijan. Dr Gubad's case throws a spotlight on human rights abuses in Azerbaijan - and Britain, as the biggest foreign investor in Azerbaijan has a special responsibility to speak out: “Economic ties bring quite a bit of leverage to the U.K. over Azerbaijan” 🗣️Gubad’s son. Dr Gubad, a well-known academic & anti-corruption expert was violently arrested over a year ago in Azerbaijan on fabricated charges & has been denied adequate medical treatment. Dr Gubad was living & working in London at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) at the time of his arrest, but the UK government has been: "acting like he doesn’t exist and continuing their economic ties” according to Gubad's son. As the UK looks to reassert its global climate leadership at #COP29, we join Gubad’s children’s demand on the UK government to use their position to raise human rights concerns in Azerbaijan and call for the immediate release of Dr Gubad. Read more: https://lnkd.in/dfpeyskW

🎉🌍 Excited to share PWYP's Vision 2025 Impact Report! Over the past five years, our movement has achieved incredible milestones, and this summary not only celebrates those successes but also offers key insights that are shaping our future strategy. 💡🚀 Read the key points in this executive summary of our impact report, Five Years of Collective Impact: Reflecting on What We Achieved Under Vision 2025. 📖✨ We hope you’ll find it both inspiring and thought-provoking as we continue this journey together as a global movement. 💪🤝 Check out the highlights here 👉 https://lnkd.in/edGqGvZ8