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Fossil fuel subsidies rose in most countries 🛢️📈, though 10 countries, including Australia and Türkiye reduced them despite energy price pressures.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Fossil fuel subsidies rose in most countries 🛢️📈, though 10 countries, including Australia and Türkiye reduced them despite energy price pressures.
🧭More countries are hosting migrants and refugees, but most new arrivals come from middle-income rather than poorer countries, limiting the development impact.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🧭More countries are hosting migrants and refugees, but most new arrivals come from middle-income rather than poorer countries, limiting the development impact.
🌏More than three-quarters of countries cut their emissions between 2019 and 2023, but overall emissions across the countries ranked in the CDI still rose, driven by increases in China.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🌏More than three-quarters of countries cut their emissions between 2019 and 2023, but overall emissions across the countries ranked in the CDI still rose, driven by increases in China.
🇱🇺Luxembourg and 🇮🇪Ireland made the biggest jumps up, each up 4 spots. Luxembourg's rise in the rankings stems from its increase in development finance, while Ireland climbed thanks to admitting significantly more migrants from poorer countries.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🇱🇺Luxembourg and 🇮🇪Ireland made the biggest jumps up, each up 4 spots. Luxembourg's rise in the rankings stems from its increase in development finance, while Ireland climbed thanks to admitting significantly more migrants from poorer countries.
🇳🇱 The Netherlands dropped out of the top ten for the first time, falling five places to 11th due to rising fossil fuel subsidies and weak investment standards.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🇳🇱 The Netherlands dropped out of the top ten for the first time, falling five places to 11th due to rising fossil fuel subsidies and weak investment standards.
The United Kingdom 🇬🇧 climbed two places to 5th, but its standing reflects aid levels before the government’s planned 40 percent budget cuts, suggesting that a steep fall is likely in future editions.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The United Kingdom 🇬🇧 climbed two places to 5th, but its standing reflects aid levels before the government’s planned 40 percent budget cuts, suggesting that a steep fall is likely in future editions.
The United States fell two places to 28th.⬇️ Even before steep aid cuts take effect, the US’s effort was falling with rising emissions pushing it further down the rankings.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The United States fell two places to 28th.⬇️ Even before steep aid cuts take effect, the US’s effort was falling with rising emissions pushing it further down the rankings.
Most countries are giving less finance for development than in 2023. Fewer are channeling funds through multilateral organizations, and aid is increasingly directed away from the poorest countries.💰📉
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Most countries are giving less finance for development than in 2023. Fewer are channeling funds through multilateral organizations, and aid is increasingly directed away from the poorest countries.💰📉
🥇Sweden ranks first overall, followed by Germany and Norway. Germany remains the highest-ranked G7 and G20 country.
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
🥇Sweden ranks first overall, followed by Germany and Norway. Germany remains the highest-ranked G7 and G20 country.
24 countries are doing less to accelerate international development than in 2023 according to key indicators, with just 11 countries acting more internationally.🌍📉#CDI2025
November 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
24 countries are doing less to accelerate international development than in 2023 according to key indicators, with just 11 countries acting more internationally.🌍📉#CDI2025
📃🧵Understanding stakeholder perspectives: IPEA must be legitimate, inclusive, and impactful. Stakeholders favor a hybrid governance model—independent, but working in partnership with existing institutions.
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Understanding Different Stakeholders' Priorities for an Independent Panel on Evidence for Action on AMR
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global threat that demands coordinated, cross-sectoral action rooted in rigorous evidence and inclusive governance. In response to calls for an independent ...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
📃🧵Understanding stakeholder perspectives: IPEA must be legitimate, inclusive, and impactful. Stakeholders favor a hybrid governance model—independent, but working in partnership with existing institutions.
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📃🧵Lessons from global health, climate change, and biodiversity: IPEA’s mandate must engage the Global South. A poorly defined mandate risks duplication and irrelevance; a strong one should actively prioritizes Global South perspectives and evidence.
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The South Centre | Research Paper 222, 16 July 2025
South Centre – an intergovernmental policy research and analysis institution of developing countries
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November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
📃🧵Lessons from global health, climate change, and biodiversity: IPEA’s mandate must engage the Global South. A poorly defined mandate risks duplication and irrelevance; a strong one should actively prioritizes Global South perspectives and evidence.
www.southcentre.int/research-pap...
www.southcentre.int/research-pap...
📃🧵Environmental science–policy interfaces: As with climate and biodiversity panels, credibility, legitimacy, and relevance are key—but trade-offs are inevitable. Rigorous evidence takes time, while policymakers want speed.
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IPEA Design Working Paper -
Science Policy Interfaces in Global Environmental Governance: Policy Lessons and Trade-Offs for Building the Independent Panel on Evidence for Actions against AMR IPEA-GSL-Working-PaperDownload
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November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
📃🧵Environmental science–policy interfaces: As with climate and biodiversity panels, credibility, legitimacy, and relevance are key—but trade-offs are inevitable. Rigorous evidence takes time, while policymakers want speed.
amrpolicy.org/resources/ip...
amrpolicy.org/resources/ip...
📃🧵Lessons from animal health panels: Cross-sector work is a strength; weak spots are funding transparency and evaluation—so give IPEA a clear mandate, simple governance, independent finance, and strong monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
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Evaluating Existing Independent and Intergovernmental Panels in Animal Health
For the new Independent Panel on Evidence for Action against AMR to be effective, it will need to combine strong mandates, independence, transparent and inclusive membership, and robust evidence frame...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
📃🧵Lessons from animal health panels: Cross-sector work is a strength; weak spots are funding transparency and evaluation—so give IPEA a clear mandate, simple governance, independent finance, and strong monitoring, evaluation, and learning.
www.cgdev.org/publication/...
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📃🧵Lessons from the IPCC: Co-design topics with governments, keep products policy-relevant, invest in communications and error-handling, and resource low- and middle-income country participation.
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Understanding Lessons from the IPCC to Inform the AMR Panel
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has become a reference point for the design of international scientific advisory bodies. This paper examines what lessons from its experience may inform t...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
📃🧵Lessons from the IPCC: Co-design topics with governments, keep products policy-relevant, invest in communications and error-handling, and resource low- and middle-income country participation.
www.cgdev.org/publication/...
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🧵📃Evidence uptake in AMR policy: Close data gaps (especially in low- and middle-income countries and non-human sectors), co-produce with end users, and give country-ready recommendations with resourcing and monitoring built in.
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Evaluating Existing Processes for Uptake of Scientific Evidence on AMR
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents one of the most pressing global health challenges, yet translating scientific evidence into effective policy has proven slow, uneven, and fragmented across co...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
🧵📃Evidence uptake in AMR policy: Close data gaps (especially in low- and middle-income countries and non-human sectors), co-produce with end users, and give country-ready recommendations with resourcing and monitoring built in.
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The papers at a glance ⬇️
🧵Learning from health panels: Keep governance lean and independent, diversify funding with strong conflict-of-interest rules, plan for quick syntheses, and track impact from day one.
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🧵Learning from health panels: Keep governance lean and independent, diversify funding with strong conflict-of-interest rules, plan for quick syntheses, and track impact from day one.
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What the Independent Panel for Evidence for Action Against AMR Can Learn from Other Health Panels
The paper reviews lessons from 17 global health panels to inform the design of the forthcoming Independent Panel for Evidence for Action against Antimicrobial Resistance (IPEA). It finds that IPEA’s effectiveness will depend less on structural design and more on strategic positioning—balancing independence with legitimacy, leveraging existing bodies, and establishing credibility through high-impact, inclusive, and action-oriented expertise.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The papers at a glance ⬇️
🧵Learning from health panels: Keep governance lean and independent, diversify funding with strong conflict-of-interest rules, plan for quick syntheses, and track impact from day one.
www.cgdev.org/publication/...
🧵Learning from health panels: Keep governance lean and independent, diversify funding with strong conflict-of-interest rules, plan for quick syntheses, and track impact from day one.
www.cgdev.org/publication/...