Jesse Chase-Lubitz

United Kingdom

Climate Journalist at Freelance

Climate Reporter at Devex

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Devex Invested: In Sevilla, the heat is on to get development finance back on track

4 days ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

With just six days to go before the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, or FfD4, global leaders are preparing to gather in sun-scorched Sevilla, Spain, where temperatures are expected to approach 43 degrees Celsius (110°F). (Pack a hat.
A Q&A with the woman who helped shape the Sevilla Platform for Action

1 week ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

After countries signed off on the draft outcome document for the FfD4, UNDESA official Shari Spiegel lays out what’s left to do in Sevilla. As nations prepare for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, or FfD4, in Sevilla, Spain, this month, Shari Spiegel is a central figure to watch.
Climate negotiations in Bonn begin with familiar finance clash

1 week ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

Negotiations at the midyear United Nations climate summit in Bonn, Germany, started off on the wrong foot as delegates spent the first 17 hours brawling over whether to put an article on public finance on the agenda. The specific article that developing countries wanted on the agenda was Article 9.1 of the Paris Agreement, which refers to the “provision” of public finance — or bilateral government funding from developed to developing countries.
Special edition: Before COP30 takes the spotlight, Bonn sets the stage

1 week ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

Presented by CropLife InternationalIn less than five months, tens of thousands of people will gather in the Amazonian city of Belém, Brazil, for two weeks of pomp and circumstance. The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference, aka COP30, is by far the most important climate event of the year. This week, however, the community will get together for a more modest gathering in Bonn, Germany: the intersessional subsidiary bodies meeting, or Bonn SB 62.
The US is a no-show at Bonn climate negotiations

1 week ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

The U.S. absence at the midterm Bonn climate talks could reshape negotiations, pushing other countries to step up as donor funding uncertainties loom. The intersessional climate meetings in Bonn, Germany, which mark the midway point to the 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, or COP30, in Brazil, are kicking off today, but without the United States.
NGOs say that new Gaza aid model is undermining lifesaving work

2 weeks ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

Humanitarian organizations say that the Israeli- and U.S.-backed aid organization, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, is meeting only a fraction of the need in Gaza. Worse still, they say, it’s pulling focus from much-needed aid that experienced NGOs can offer, while reducing international pressure on Israel to allow aid to reach people in the region. GHF has been condemned for its ties to the Israeli government and its use of private U.S. contractors for security.
World Bank backs nuclear revival while gas stays a political fault line

2 weeks ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

The World Bank will reenter the nuclear energy sector for the first time in decades, a landmark policy change that signals a broader shift in its approach to clean energy, but contentious debate continues on fossil fuels. The World Bank will remove its ban on investing in nuclear energy, according to a document seen by Devex, paving the way for a key low-carbon energy source and a potential game changer for countries to meet net-zero goals.
Devex Invested: What we’re watching at Financing for Development in Seville

2 weeks ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

Everything you need to get ready for FfD4. Plus, the fallout of a possible U.S. tax on remittances and why Mission 300 won’t include nuclear energy. In less than a month, the city of Seville, Spain, will swap flamenco for finance as it hosts what might be the most consequential — and most anticipated — global development conference in recent years: the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development, or FfD4.
Calls for overhaul of global debt architecture intensify ahead of FfD4

3 weeks ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

Experts warn that without reform, the world’s poorest countries will keep paying the highest price. The world’s poorest countries are spending more on debt service than on health and education combined — and they’re doing so with few effective options to restructure that debt.
What a 3.5% tax on remittances could do to the developing world

3 weeks ago | devex.com | Jesse Chase-Lubitz

As development aid shrinks, the U.S. proposal to tax remittances could cut off critical support to low-income countries and deepen global inequality. On May 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a draft of President Donald Trump’s new budget. Among the 1,038-page text is a proposal to place a 3.5% tax on financial transfers sent by non-U.S. citizens.