Nikki Eames
How currency power constrains climate action
2 December, 2021December 2, 2021 ‘Climate finance’ commitments are woefully inadequate while inequalities in currency power force Global South countries to extract environmentally costly goods, and export them to the Global North. To end the outsourcing of emissions and remove the restrictions imposed on climate vulnerable countries, we need a new international monetary system. As COP26 has [...]
Still too many promises and not enough action from G20 central banks
2 November, 2021November 2, 2021 With the 'Finance' day at COP26 approaching, have the world’s biggest central banks and financial supervisors stepped up to the plate on climate? Far from it — we’re keeping tabs with an update to our G20 green central banking scorecard. China lost its top spot to France, the UK slipped behind the [...]