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🌳🖨️💲 Green bonds, payments for ecosystem services, nature credits & offsets are premised on the financialization of nature. To date, they haven't raised enough money and have harmed local communities & indigenous peoples. Read the report🔗 tinyurl.com/ElephantsCOP17 #COP17

Radhika Chatterjee of @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social breaks down the fight over science and equity at mid-year climate negotiations in Bonn in @geoengmon.bsky.social Read the full article: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/carbon-dioxi...

Nele Marien (@foeint.bsky.social) warns about Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS), the billion-dollar invoice that Global South countries receive for trying to protect their biodiversity. Download the report🔗 tinyurl.com/ElephantsCOP17

Big Pharma accused of free-riding on nature The Cali Fund’s negligible voluntary contributions offer a lesson for WHO’s PABS negotiations. Without enforceable benefit-sharing mechanisms, the world will only have handouts from corporations. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mirna Inés Fernández (TWN) argues that market-based approaches to fund biodiversity conservation are sold as the solution. But they only benefit certification agencies & North countries while threatening indigenous communities who steward conservation on the ground. #COP17

Nele Marien (@foeint.bsky.social) talks about how Investor-State Dispute Settlement is a mechanism entrenched in trade agreements that gives companies the right to sue governments for billions of dollars. Reforming this system must be contemplated in biodiversity conservation talks at #COP17.

Audrey Irvine-Broque (@UBC) says that while the Biodiversity Implementation Framework (KMGBF) cannot alone dismantle the financial architecture and its rules driving destruction, it must clearly name them and establish a work programme to challenge them. #COP17

Lim Li Ching, senior researcher with the Third World Network, presents our report “It is time to talk about the elephants in the room” at #COP17. Download the report 🔗 tinyurl.com/ElephantsCOP17

Tom Picken, of @ran.org, examines how financial systems continue to reward biodiversity destruction, often with little accountability. Read 𝑊𝑒 𝑁𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑇𝑎𝑙𝑘 𝐴𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑙𝑒𝑝ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑜𝑜𝑚 report 🔗 tinyurl.com/ElephantsCOP17 @foeint.bsky.social @gybnuk.bsky.social

Audrey Irvine-Broque & Jessica Dempsey (University of British Columbia) examine how the international financial architecture constrains governments’ ability to protect biodiversity. Download the report 🔗 tinyurl.com/ElephantsCOP17 @ran.org @foeint.bsky.social @gybnuk.bsky.social

#COP17 New report by TWN, @foeint.bsky.social, @ran.org, Global Youth Biodiversity Network & CBD Women's Caucus exposes the economic rules, harmful financial flows & corporate interests driving biodiversity loss as countries prepare for Yerevan. Download the report 🔽 tinyurl.com/ElephantsCOP17

CSOs filed a complaint with the OHCHR to scrutinize if the EU, Norway, Japan & Switzerland are living up to their human rights commitments in the WHO #PABS negotiations. Join us Thursday to discuss where they stand. 📅 10 Sept | 3pm CEST 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/mrensk2p

🇮🇩 Landmark ruling in Indonesia Constitutional Court reinstated a key safeguard against pharmaceutical patent evergreening, helping prevent unjustified patents & affirmed that civil society & patient groups can challenge patent grants. Full report 🔗 tinyurl.com/j5hs4rka

📘 NEW BOOK TWN’s new book traces the negotiations behind the landmark amendments to the International Health Regulations, documenting the twists & turns of the process. Download for free 🔗 twn.my/title2/books...

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@keiwashdc.bsky.social and @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social at the ACANU press briefing moderated by John Zarocostas. @WHO #WHA79

In Geneva for #WHA79? Don't miss this crucial side event with experts in global health representing civil society, Member States, and the WHO. 📅 19 May 2026 ⏰ 18:00–19:30 CEST 📍 Salle C, WHO Headquarters 🥪 Sandwiches & drinks provided 💻 Online: tinyurl.com/484tvc4c

Norway is accused of protecting the pharmaceutical industry, by Mathilde Becker @panoramanyheter.bsky.social "It is not an exaggeration to compare these uneven and exploitative relations between North and South with colonialism" says KM Gopakumar (TWN). www.panoramanyheter.no/global-helse...

Strong editorial by @theguardian.com on how Europe is putting the world's response to the next pandemic at risk. Europe is treating negotiations at @who.int as "technocratic haggling" rather than aiming to correct the inequities that defined COVID-19. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Timely piece in the @thelancet.com Brazilian virologists Gabriel da Luz & Túlio Campos from @oficialfiocruz.bsky.social. "A fair genomic order would treat genomic information as both a global public good and a strategic public health asset". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our comicbook on #biodiversity credits / #offsets is finally available in print! You can order a copy for the price of $10 here: twn.my/title2/books... And you can still download the pdf for free here: greenfinanceobservatory.org/wp-content/u... Happy reading!

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

The cost of meds was too high for thousands of #CF patients. We worked with Vertex Save Us & @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social to approach a Bangladeshi company to make a generic version at a fraction of the price - it’s now on the way. This will change lives. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Sanya Reid-Smith takes us back into the history of the international agreement that established intellectual property rules: TRIPS. In simple terms, clear examples & numbers, she gives a class on TRIPS, trade agreements & their impact on health. Listen▶️ tinyurl.com/FTAsimpacton...

We're launching the #DigitalJusticeNow campaign at the @intgovforum.bsky.social. Join us in reclaiming the digital future we want 👇 www.apc.org/en/news/glob... #IGF2025 #WSIS20 - with @itforchange.bsky.social

Kicking off Day Zero of #IGF2025, the Global Digital Justice Forum launched "Digital Justice, Now", our global online advocacy campaign for a just and democratic digital future!

🔴 WE ARE LIVE TWN is thrilled to organize with the United Nations University - IIGH (@unu-iigh.bsky.social) the Symposium Strengthening Global Health Governance: Defending the Public Interest and Holding Powerful Private Actors Accountable. Watch here ▶️ shorturl.at/eSMyO

#Biosecurity #BioriskManagement PDF download

Indian generic company Natco Pharma just announced rare disease drug Risdiplam could cost 97% less. For TWN, this price difference should prime other countries to follow & allow generic manufacturing in the promotion of public interest. Full report ▶️ shorturl.at/EN2D8

🚨New Report AI is now designing & modifying DNA, but its decisions are a “black box”—untraceable & risky. Impact on biodiversity, biosecurity & the environment is huge. Read further in our latest report with @etcgroup.bsky.social & the African Center for Biodiversity. ⏬ shorturl.at/pB3ba

Trump's aid cuts are bad news for international climate finance. I looked through the available data to work out how bad... Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US. Those funds are now under threat. ➡️ buff.ly/BuxwfSL

Bhumika Muchhala (@3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social & Civil Society Financing for Development Mechanism) reminds all that #FfD4 shd expand policy & fiscal space for structural transformation toward global South economic sovereignty.

Poor deal on New Finance Goal bull-dozed through at COP29 via @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social Essential reading on what went down in the final negotiations at Cop29 which ended with a deal the US, EU, UK & other wealthy polluters feeling pretty good. Status quo=climate injustice twn.my/title2/clima...

Developing countries expected that developed countries would drive climate finance mobilization. But the COP outcome aims low and dilutes responsibility. 🎧Meena Raman, Program Director at TWN, breaks down #COP29 in Baku. www.bfm.my/podcast/the-...

Africa Group & Brazil call out global pressures from developed countries against TRIPS flexibilities at WIPO. A UN report about these cases said this violates the integrity and legitimacy of the rights and duties in the TRIPS Agreement. Full report 🔗 www.twn.my/title2/intel...

1/2. “Developed countries grew rich, not because they were smarter than the developing world, but because of #Colonisation. They continue to impose structures that make development difficult." Mina Raman of @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social on developed countries blocking progress at #COP29.

1/3. “We may be in a football stadium, but we cannot afford to play games.” Meena Raman of @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social network on developed countries blocking progress on the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) and other work at #COP29.

“If the US🇺🇸 can't do anything. It's pay up or shut up and not cause a big problem in the negotiations.” Meena Raman of @3rdworldnetwork.bsky.social on developed countries blocking progress on the New Collective Quantified Goal on #ClimateFinance (#NCQG) at #COP29.

Roche targets Indian generic Zydus –that produces generic cancer drug– citing lapses like missing approvals & trial material issues. But Roche's claims seem more about blocking affordable biosimilars than compliance. Full report 🔗 www.twn.my/title2/intel...