As the slow smoky, sometimes apocalyptic, haze drifts across North America as a result of ongoing wildfires, it’s impossible to deny that the impacts of climate change are barreling down the door and coming right into our living rooms (literally if you accidentally leave the windows open on a smoky day). The best time to act was yesterday, the second best time is now.
Climate Change financing needs urgent reform - as does the ways in which we think about...
Sabrina Grover
In a time when all we hear about is “unprecedented” challenges - the World Bank, unfortunately continues to operate in the most predictable and “precedented” way. Last week the world’s biggest financial stakeholders had an opportunity to fundamentally reform the operations of the Bank to unlock the callable capital needed in order to address the significant development challenges facing the world today – we saw some baby steps, but what we needed were giant leaps. Reforming the way Multilateral...
After months of countless advocacy including a successful parliamentary reception, high-level parliamentary meetings and over 5000 of you taking action, the Government of Canada didn’t deliver the outcome we had hoped for on Budget Day.
Canada dealt a major blow to development and global health with a 15% cut to international aid in Budget 2023. Without new spending announced, aid as a share of our national income could go down to 0.25%-0.27%, compared to 0.32% in 2021. This would be...
Last week G7 leaders gathered at their yearly Summit, took some photos and made promises that the world has (for the most part) already heard from them.
While the world’s most powerful leaders dined out on curated vegan menus at the G7 meetings, hundreds of millions of people plunged further into one of the worst food crises that the world has ever seen.
Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, nearly 800 million people around the world were facing or were...
The coincidence of Budget 2022 falling on World Health Day is not lost on us. The link between global health, development, and our prosperity has never been clearer. Two and half years into this global pandemic we have all seen fractured health systems, halted national economies, and disrupted global supply chains, not to mention the over 6 million people and counting who lost their lives.
Global health security requires sufficient and predictable investment from countries like Canada. World Health Day...