Both ENDS
Klimaatactie is keihard nodig om de opwarming van de aarde te beperken. De gevolgen van klimaatverandering zijn nu al te merken. Overstromingen in Pakistan en dicht bij huis kosten levens en zorgen voor veel emotionele en economische schade, terwijl lokale klimaatoplossingen nog steeds grotendeels genegeerd worden. Daarom zal Both ENDS aanwezig zijn tijdens de klimaattop COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypte.
The Green Climate Fund aims to support transformational pathways to climate-resilient development, intends to reach those most vulnerable, and commits to a gender-sensitive approach. This session presents an important way of putting these commitments into practice: by engaging small grants funds. These funds can provide the much needed channel between large international institutions and local communities adapting to climate change, and assure financing reaches women and men to contribute to transformative climate action. But how to make this shift in how financing is delivered? The audience will be actively engaged in the discussion to come to concrete suggestions to strengthen local access and gender responsiveness of climate finance.
From 7 to 18 november, the Climate Change COP22 will take place in Marrakech, Morrocco. This '22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)' as it is called officially, is the annual meeting of the 195 countries which have signed and ratified the convention.
On the 14th of April, Both ENDS wil host a workshop called 'Small Grants, Big Impacts' on the annual Africa day in Amsterdam. The workshop aims to demonstrate that so called 'small grants funds' effectively deliver (devopment and climate) money where it matters, to people that need it the most. Large development banks, funds, donors and governments could use small grants funds as alternative financing mechanisms to make sure their money benefits people and their environment now and it the far future.
25 civil society organisations, including Both ENDS have submitted a comment on the overarching policy of the newly proposed Environmental and Social Framework of the EIB Group. The EIB has to undertake environmental, climate, social and human rights assessment and appraisal of proposed projects to inform the decision of financing and must not rely on a clients' self-assessment and reporting (solely). The Policy needs to state clearly what the due diligence, monitoring and reporting responisibilities for the EIB are, in particular regarding human rights and contractual clauses with clients should enshrine the standards in all EIB operations, enabling for suspension of contracts if the standards are not implemented.
Vorig jaar op de klimaattop in Glasgow, ondertekende Nederland, samen met 38 andere overheden en instellingen, de zogenaamde Glasgow-verklaring. Met de ondertekening van deze verklaring zegde Nederland toe om per eind 2022 te stoppen met nieuwe directe publieke steun voor de internationale fossiele energiesector. Deze toezegging moet echter nog worden waargemaakt.
Met deze brief roepen 20 maatschappelijke organisaties Nederland op om, voorafgaand aan de Export Finance for Future (E3F) Summit op 3 november, bekend te maken hoe de beloften in de Glasgow-verklaring zullen worden uitgevoerd. De E3F-top is een belangrijke en uitgelezen kans voor Nederland om samen met alle andere E3F-leden de toezeggingen die vorig jaar in Glasgow zijn gedaan, na te komen.
Het recente E3F-transparantierapport concludeerde dat Nederland in de periode 2015-2020 zes maal maal zoveel transacties verzekerde in de fossiele-brandstoffenindustrie als in de hernieuwbare-energiesector. Het ging om 3 miljard euro aan verzekerde transacties in de fossiele-energiesector ten opzichte van slechts 0,5 miljard euro in de hernieuwbare-energiesector. Dit toont aan dat stoppen met Nederlandse exportsteun voor fossiel essentieel is om Nederlands beleid in lijn te brengen met de toezeggingen in Glasgow en met het Klimaatakkoord van Parijs.
A letter written by Both ENDS, co-signed by 350.org, Australia, Urgewald, Germany, Green Alternative, Georgia, and others, with comments to the AIIB's Energy Strategy Issues note. This strategy prioritizes large scale energy infrastructure, which fails to meet the energy needs of local communities.
The AIIB has the opportunity to champion financing green energy systems for future generations by leapfrogging the large energy infrastructure that rely on fossil fuels, plantations for biomass or dams.
