Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 10/03/2025@esauw.bsky.social @barnabyjdye.bsky.social @sefanyarko.bsky.social 132
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Forty years on from Band Aid, what is the UK-Africa relationship? And what the heck happened at COP29? New podcast episode 🎧 With @esauw.bsky.social this time are MSc student Fanny Dreyer; Dr @sefanyarko.bsky.social; Prof Eka Ikpe & Dr Julia Gallagher. podfollow.com/world-we-got...podfollow.comWORLD: we got this with Esau WilliamsJoin Esau Williams and guests on the 'WORLD: we got this' podcast series as they discuss some of the biggest - and some of the most neglected - world news stories of the week. 043
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Sarah Bracking, Professor of Climate and Society, lays out the five moral hazards at play in the COP negotiations which are "building climate finance architecture’ rather than making the financial resources actually available to those who need them most." www.kcl.ac.uk/cop29-follow...kcl.ac.ukCOP29: Following the money through the looking glassProfessor Sarah Bracking explores what is happening with the climate finance discussions at COP29. 011
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Dr Clement Sefa-Nyarko, a Lecturer in our African Leadership Centre, reflects on his time as a delegate at #COP29 in Baku including the wide differences he noted between countries at the event – and how ordinary people are caught between these extremes. #KingsatCOP 🔽 022
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Climate finance is a key theme of #COP29. Professor Sarah Bracking, Professor of Climate and Society, explores the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) that seems to be up for discussion and why it must not distract from other priorities. ⬇️ #KingsatCOP #COP29Baku www.kcl.ac.uk/cop29-follow... 012
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Professor Frans Berkhout says Keir Starmer's pledge at #COP29 is highly significant and shows he "aims to recapture the UK’s leadership position on climate precisely at a moment of peril for climate policy following Donald Trump’s election." ⬇️ #KingsatCOP #COP29Baku 099
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 11/11/2024As #COP29 gets underway, what should we expect from the UN climate summit? PhD researcher Rachel Harrington-Abrams explores why it is important and how will we know if it is has been a success. #KingsatCOP ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/cop29-what-t... 012
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Is ‘climate resilience’ an achievable future or is it just an over-ambitious and vague buzzword? #KingsatCOP delegate Anna Goodden reflects on her research, the key role of finance & the #COP29 discussions on resilience.⬇️ 🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/cop29-climat... @kcl-spe.bsky.social @kings-sga.bsky.social 084
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's Global Affairs @kings-sga.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Ghana will vote for a new President on 7 Dec. Get to know the leading candidates - ex-President John Mahama (NDC) and current VP Mahamuda Bawumia (NPP) in these BBC profiles with insights from our own Dr Clement Sefa-Nyarko On Mahama: lnkd.in/gNTTVMWh On Bawumia: lnkd.in/guvRBJaD 012
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024"With the G77 and China sticking to a high $1.3 trillion ask, but the developed countries rumoured to be offering a figure of a low hundreds of billions, the gap appears vast." Professor Sarah Bracking @kings-sga.bsky.social on the ongoing climate finance negotiations on the last day of #COP29.⬇️ 022
Reposted by @sefanyarko.bsky.socialKing's College London @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024"Weak" and a decision is in effect being "postponed" - Professor Sarah Bracking @kings-sga.bsky.social responds to the probable figure that has now emerged for the NCQG at #COP29 of $250 billion (USD) per year by 2035 for climate action in developing country Parties. ⬇️ 043
