CCUS, Hydrogen and Ammonia Have no Place in a Rapid, Just and Equitable Transition Out of Fossil Fuels Towards 100% Renewable Energy Systems The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have come out with the Synthesis of its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) on March 20, 2023. No doubt the Report willContinue Reading
While the vast majority of people across the world are under the grip of hunger and economic insecurity, hundreds of politicians, business executives, royalties, celebrities, religious leaders, and even drug dealers were exposed to have been salting away their wealth in faraway offshore accounts. These individuals are counted among theContinue Reading
by Pooja Rangaprasad and Jeannie Manipon Reprinted from Asia Times – https://asiatimes.com/2022/04/adbs-asia-pacific-tax-hub-a-trojan-horse/ The Asian Development Bank (ADB) launched the Asia Pacific Tax Hub on domestic resource mobilization and international tax cooperation in 2021. The stated objective under “international tax cooperation” is to promote tax initiatives of the Organization for Economic CooperationContinue Reading
On July 10 2021, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors concluded their third meeting with a resounding endorsement of the unambitious and undemocratic two-pillar solution of the G7 and the OECD. The G20 endorsement is the latest rubber stamp to the agenda dominated and led by the GlobalContinue Reading
On the eve of the UN Public Service Day, June 23, we recognize the work of public servants, especially in health care, and reiterate the urgent need to expand the fiscal space for increased investments in public services. Corporate tax abuses and other illicit financial flows (IFFs) must be stoppedContinue Reading
