Will Worley

RT @EconMitch: Today's spring statement quietly revealed that the vast majority of the aid cut the PM announced for 2027 will actually happ…

Everyone knows about the damage USAID cuts are doing *right now* to lifesaving programs. But there is more pernicious, long term damage being wrought too - including to the only area for which humanitarians have had much optimism: https://t.co/p5iVR1RCbM

Reminds me of some criticisms I've heard recently of policies in the aid world too - basically saying intersectional type approaches are often counter productive. The aid budget crisis means "focus" (touted here as cure) could be forced alot sooner than for British state tho...

Joe Hill @jo3hill

Everythingism. The belief that every policy is a means for promoting every other policy, all at the same time. Everythingism it’s why nothing works. Defeating Everythingism is the only way we can start to fix everything. This essay explains how. https://t.co/9jvaEXeQKs

"The fundamental changes needed today are too important to leave to a conclave who have been remarkably effective at preserving power, resources, and control through successive rounds of reform." Solid recs frm @poole_lydia on big humanitarian 'reset' https://t.co/z048wSvUXt

UK climate envoy Rachel Kyte @rkyte365 (+ COP30 CEO Ana Toni) both tell #CHevents there are "no conversations about how to pause the [global energy] transition" When questioned on this, Kyte says important to distinguish between "signals and noise"

The effects of climate change and conflict are at the top of the risk list for humanitarians At COP29, I took a look at where this policy landscape is at ... and where it's going next https://t.co/u6OYPF6SXA

RT @Tammamo: Our Editorial in @newhumanitarian: We say to aid agencies, history will judge your failure to call out israel war crimes as co…

UN Emergency Relief Chief courting Elon 👀

Tom Fletcher @UNReliefChief

@elonmusk Yes, US is top donor of vital humanitarian aid. I would love to show you why and how this saves lives, and our work to make the humanitarian effort more efficient, innovative and high impact.

2025 will be a big year for the nascent Loss + Damage Fund... It's developing policy, finalising the institutional stuff, and may even do its first much needed response to a climate disaster. But there's a big $-shaped caveat... My latest: https://t.co/BKLUM2T6QE

Huge investigation from @newhumanitarian colleagues It's about a series of killings of Palestinians who volunteered to help UN aid distribution in northern Gaza, as the region approached famine earlier this year ... and the consequences of their deaths https://t.co/qvhKFn62Zz

RT @illied: “If you can’t see it for the circus it is, you’re part of the problem.” From COPtimist to sceptic, @willrworley reflects on the…

I did not leave COP29 in Baku feeling optimistic. Quite the opposite in fact. Here's my reflections on the outcome, the $$$ machinery accompanying COP29, and what it means for int'l cooperation in the emerging geopolitical landscape: https://t.co/xfPRLv79FB

My takeaways on where climate humanitarianism policy is at after a big few days at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan. More to come... https://t.co/zC26FwvbL7