Mattias Söderberg
@matsod.bsky.social
Global Climate Lead of DanChurchAid, co-chair of the ACT alliance Climate Justice Group and member of the Danish Council for Development Policy. Post about the nexus between climate and development
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Mattias Söderberg
@matsod.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Turning the past into action
YouTube video by Mattias Söderberg
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I am happy to work in an NGO, where we take historic #climate responsibility. We will now plant 280.000 trees and invest in adaptation and #LossAndDamage to #TurnThePastIntoAction
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We should learn from history! Thanks @joethwaites.bsky.social for the good reminder. The new "Baku to Belem Roadmap" must be followed up, so that it becomes possible to scale up the funding. I hope for a decision at #COP30
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, a #climatefinance story:
After the $100bn climate finance goal was agreed in 2009, the UN Secretary General created a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) to study potential sources of revenue to meet the new goal, led by the PMs of 🇪🇹&🇳🇴
After the $100bn climate finance goal was agreed in 2009, the UN Secretary General created a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) to study potential sources of revenue to meet the new goal, led by the PMs of 🇪🇹&🇳🇴
High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing - Final Report
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November 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
We should learn from history! Thanks @joethwaites.bsky.social for the good reminder. The new "Baku to Belem Roadmap" must be followed up, so that it becomes possible to scale up the funding. I hope for a decision at #COP30
Reposted by Mattias Söderberg
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, a #climatefinance story:
After the $100bn climate finance goal was agreed in 2009, the UN Secretary General created a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) to study potential sources of revenue to meet the new goal, led by the PMs of 🇪🇹&🇳🇴
After the $100bn climate finance goal was agreed in 2009, the UN Secretary General created a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) to study potential sources of revenue to meet the new goal, led by the PMs of 🇪🇹&🇳🇴
High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing - Final Report
web.archive.org
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, a #climatefinance story:
After the $100bn climate finance goal was agreed in 2009, the UN Secretary General created a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) to study potential sources of revenue to meet the new goal, led by the PMs of 🇪🇹&🇳🇴
After the $100bn climate finance goal was agreed in 2009, the UN Secretary General created a High-Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) to study potential sources of revenue to meet the new goal, led by the PMs of 🇪🇹&🇳🇴
What is happening at #COP30 ? Not much... or at least not enough. But there are also positive developments.
Read our press release and find out more.
www.danchurchaid.org/cop30-core-c...
Read our press release and find out more.
www.danchurchaid.org/cop30-core-c...
COP30 – Core conflict remains unresolved - DanChurchAid
While difficult issues has come to a standstill there is momentum for adaptation finance and it's now time to deliver on the B2B Roadmap
www.danchurchaid.org
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
What is happening at #COP30 ? Not much... or at least not enough. But there are also positive developments.
Read our press release and find out more.
www.danchurchaid.org/cop30-core-c...
Read our press release and find out more.
www.danchurchaid.org/cop30-core-c...
Reposted by Mattias Söderberg
November 14, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Reposted by Mattias Söderberg
Türkiye and Australia are battling to host next year's climate talks here at #COP30, but their plans for accelerating action are MIA from their pitches! In @climatechangenews.com, I argue climate credentials should be the basis for deciding who hosts #COP31 www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/11/c...
Climate is MIA in Australia and Türkiye’s bids to host COP31
Neither Australia or Türkiye have set out how they would use their COP31 presidency to accelerate climate action
www.climatechangenews.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Türkiye and Australia are battling to host next year's climate talks here at #COP30, but their plans for accelerating action are MIA from their pitches! In @climatechangenews.com, I argue climate credentials should be the basis for deciding who hosts #COP31 www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/11/c...
I am happy #Spain back a solidarity levy on premium flyers, and I do hope other countries will follow! Who is next?
#COP30
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#COP30
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Private Jet, Business Class Tax Backed by Spain at Climate Talks
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Friday outlined plans to tax commercial flights and private jets, an initiative meant to combat planet-warming pollution from aviation that could hike the cost ...
www.bloomberg.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 AM
I am happy #Spain back a solidarity levy on premium flyers, and I do hope other countries will follow! Who is next?
#COP30
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
#COP30
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Hope most be kept alive amid deep divisions at the UN #Climate Talks in Belem #COP30
Read our opening Press release
www.danchurchaid.org/cop30-hope-m...
Read our opening Press release
www.danchurchaid.org/cop30-hope-m...
COP30: Hope must be kept alive amid deep divisions at UN climate talks - DanChurchAid
In spite of fossil fuels being low on the agenda, missing national climate targets, and gap reports spelling dark times ahead, we must stay hopeful.
www.danchurchaid.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Hope most be kept alive amid deep divisions at the UN #Climate Talks in Belem #COP30
Read our opening Press release
www.danchurchaid.org/cop30-hope-m...
Read our opening Press release
www.danchurchaid.org/cop30-hope-m...
The coming weeks I will attend #COP30
I hope my posts on Blue Sky will be positive, and that we will see progress. We can manage the #ClimateCrisis but only if we scale up the ambition now!
I hope my posts on Blue Sky will be positive, and that we will see progress. We can manage the #ClimateCrisis but only if we scale up the ambition now!
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
The coming weeks I will attend #COP30
I hope my posts on Blue Sky will be positive, and that we will see progress. We can manage the #ClimateCrisis but only if we scale up the ambition now!
I hope my posts on Blue Sky will be positive, and that we will see progress. We can manage the #ClimateCrisis but only if we scale up the ambition now!
Solidarity levies on premium flyers can generate funding for #Adaptation and #LossAndDamage
Read my comment in @climatechangenews.com
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/07/l...
Read my comment in @climatechangenews.com
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/07/l...
Tax luxury air travel to fund adaptation and loss and damage
Taxes on private jets and first and business class would be fair and popular and bring in tens of billions of dollars each year to help countries cope with climate change
www.climatechangenews.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Solidarity levies on premium flyers can generate funding for #Adaptation and #LossAndDamage
Read my comment in @climatechangenews.com
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/07/l...
Read my comment in @climatechangenews.com
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/11/07/l...
There are big expectations for #adaptation at the upcoming UN #climate summit #COP30
I hope it will deliver results
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
I hope it will deliver results
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com
November 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
There are big expectations for #adaptation at the upcoming UN #climate summit #COP30
I hope it will deliver results
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
I hope it will deliver results
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Hvor er Danmark? En række lande vil introducere afgifter på flyv, for at mobilisere penge til at løse klimakrisen. Læs min klumme i @altingetdk.bsky.social
#dkaid #dkgreen
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#dkaid #dkgreen
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Klimarådgiver: Danmark sætter sin troværdighed som international aktør på spil ved sit fravær i globalt initiativ - Altinget
Danmark forholdt sig tavs, da lande som Frankrig, Spanien og Kenya sidste år annoncerede nationale afgifter på fly, hvis indtægter skal hjælpe lande, der er værst ramt af klimaforandringerne. Det selv...
www.altinget.dk
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Hvor er Danmark? En række lande vil introducere afgifter på flyv, for at mobilisere penge til at løse klimakrisen. Læs min klumme i @altingetdk.bsky.social
#dkaid #dkgreen
www.altinget.dk/udvikling/ar...
#dkaid #dkgreen
www.altinget.dk/udvikling/ar...
Skal du i universitets #praktik til foråret? Og har du en interesse for #dkpol #Dkaid og #dkgreen ?
Så er det her en spændende mulighed!
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Så er det her en spændende mulighed!
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I Folkekirkens Nødhjælps generalsekretariat søger to praktikanter til politik, presse og klima I Folkekirkens Nødhjælp
Hvordan omsætter vi håb til handling i en verden, hvor global bistand er under pres og geopolitiske forandringer gør verden mere usikker? Folkekirkens Nødhjælp søger vi 2 praktikanter, der kan styrk
dca.career.emply.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Skal du i universitets #praktik til foråret? Og har du en interesse for #dkpol #Dkaid og #dkgreen ?
Så er det her en spændende mulighed!
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Så er det her en spændende mulighed!
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Happy to work in an NGO where #climatechange is such a strong cross-cutting focus. Read our new publication, and learn how we address the climate crisis through programs, advocacy, internal policies and civil society engagement
www.noedhjaelp.dk/wp-content/u...
www.noedhjaelp.dk/wp-content/u...
www.noedhjaelp.dk
October 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Happy to work in an NGO where #climatechange is such a strong cross-cutting focus. Read our new publication, and learn how we address the climate crisis through programs, advocacy, internal policies and civil society engagement
www.noedhjaelp.dk/wp-content/u...
www.noedhjaelp.dk/wp-content/u...
"(At COP30) We need to move from a negotiation process to an implementation process. That’s what Mutirão at this COP is meant for." - Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas
#adaptationforlife #UNGA #cop30
#adaptationforlife #UNGA #cop30
September 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"(At COP30) We need to move from a negotiation process to an implementation process. That’s what Mutirão at this COP is meant for." - Alice de Moraes Amorim Vogas
#adaptationforlife #UNGA #cop30
#adaptationforlife #UNGA #cop30
"Those who did not contribute the most to this current (climate) catastrophe are not the ones paying for it. This is an abject failure. And it’s not justice." - Tiffany van Ravenswaay, Climate Change Advisor at AOSIS
#UNGA #Adaptationforlife #cop30
#UNGA #Adaptationforlife #cop30
September 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Those who did not contribute the most to this current (climate) catastrophe are not the ones paying for it. This is an abject failure. And it’s not justice." - Tiffany van Ravenswaay, Climate Change Advisor at AOSIS
#UNGA #Adaptationforlife #cop30
#UNGA #Adaptationforlife #cop30
"For the next 5-15 years the trajectory of the effects of climate change are effectively inevitable. You have a better grasp of what climate change will do in these years, than interest rates, politics, tariffs etc." - Jay Koh, The Lightsmith Group
#Adaptationforlife #UNGA80
#Adaptationforlife #UNGA80
September 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"For the next 5-15 years the trajectory of the effects of climate change are effectively inevitable. You have a better grasp of what climate change will do in these years, than interest rates, politics, tariffs etc." - Jay Koh, The Lightsmith Group
#Adaptationforlife #UNGA80
#Adaptationforlife #UNGA80
"We need to be very sincere about what is not working in climate adaptation apart from just finance, or the private/public side of things. We need to look further into the issue." - @heikehenn.bsky.social
From our Adaptation is life event this afternoon
#UNGA80 #Adaptationforlife #cop30
From our Adaptation is life event this afternoon
#UNGA80 #Adaptationforlife #cop30
September 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
"We need to be very sincere about what is not working in climate adaptation apart from just finance, or the private/public side of things. We need to look further into the issue." - @heikehenn.bsky.social
From our Adaptation is life event this afternoon
#UNGA80 #Adaptationforlife #cop30
From our Adaptation is life event this afternoon
#UNGA80 #Adaptationforlife #cop30
Looking forward to co-hosting our event, "Adaptation is Life" tomorrow, on behalf of DCA, along with UN Foundation & the Talanoa Institute, where we will be hosting some amazing speakers!
To find out more, visit our page: danchurchaid.org/adaptation-i... #Adaptationforlife
#Adaptationforlife
To find out more, visit our page: danchurchaid.org/adaptation-i... #Adaptationforlife
#Adaptationforlife
Adaptation is life - DanChurchAid
A side event at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
danchurchaid.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Looking forward to co-hosting our event, "Adaptation is Life" tomorrow, on behalf of DCA, along with UN Foundation & the Talanoa Institute, where we will be hosting some amazing speakers!
To find out more, visit our page: danchurchaid.org/adaptation-i... #Adaptationforlife
#Adaptationforlife
To find out more, visit our page: danchurchaid.org/adaptation-i... #Adaptationforlife
#Adaptationforlife
Join us at our high level #UNGA event about finance for #Adaptation and #LossAndDamage. You can join both online and in person. Just register here
adaptationislife-scalingupfinancingforadaptationontheroadtocop.splashthat.com
#AdaptationIsLife
adaptationislife-scalingupfinancingforadaptationontheroadtocop.splashthat.com
#AdaptationIsLife
Adaptation is Life: Scaling up Financing for Adaptation on the Road to COP-30
Register to join the clean cooking ecosystem's flagship event TODAY!
adaptationislife-scalingupfinancingforadaptationontheroadtocop.splashthat.com
September 15, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Join us at our high level #UNGA event about finance for #Adaptation and #LossAndDamage. You can join both online and in person. Just register here
adaptationislife-scalingupfinancingforadaptationontheroadtocop.splashthat.com
#AdaptationIsLife
adaptationislife-scalingupfinancingforadaptationontheroadtocop.splashthat.com
#AdaptationIsLife
We need to ensure better access for #lossAndDamage funding for communities. Important message from Tracy Kajumba at #AfricaClimateSummit
September 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
We need to ensure better access for #lossAndDamage funding for communities. Important message from Tracy Kajumba at #AfricaClimateSummit
Denmark want to continue its commitments about climate finance, including the goal to allocate 60% adaptation. Sebastian from Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
#AfricaClimateSummit
#AfricaClimateSummit
September 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Denmark want to continue its commitments about climate finance, including the goal to allocate 60% adaptation. Sebastian from Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
#AfricaClimateSummit
#AfricaClimateSummit
Looking forward to the coming days at the #AfricaClimateSummit I expect strong calls for #ClimateAction
#ACS2
#ACS2
September 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Looking forward to the coming days at the #AfricaClimateSummit I expect strong calls for #ClimateAction
#ACS2
#ACS2
Are you attending the #AfricaClimateSummit ? In that case I hope you want to join our event Tuesday 9/9, 12:00. We will learn more about finance for #adaptation and #lossAndDamage
#ACS
#ACS
September 7, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Are you attending the #AfricaClimateSummit ? In that case I hope you want to join our event Tuesday 9/9, 12:00. We will learn more about finance for #adaptation and #lossAndDamage
#ACS
#ACS
It is time for a number of developed countries to renew their commitments to mobilise #adaptation finance
Thanks Ben Abraham and Natalie Unterstell for an important article
#AdaptationForLife
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Thanks Ben Abraham and Natalie Unterstell for an important article
#AdaptationForLife
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Finance, Adaptation and COP30: who owes what?
Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden & the UK are among those who need to deliver.
backchannel1.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
It is time for a number of developed countries to renew their commitments to mobilise #adaptation finance
Thanks Ben Abraham and Natalie Unterstell for an important article
#AdaptationForLife
backchannel1.substack.com/p/finance-ad...
Thanks Ben Abraham and Natalie Unterstell for an important article
#AdaptationForLife
backchannel1.substack.com/p/finance-ad...