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The Fair Share Challenge
The Fair Share Challenge
Rushka Sthapit
The principal aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global temperature rise to well below 2°C, while pursuing 1.5°C. Whether we are able to achieve this aim depends on two core principles: ambition and equity. We talk about ambition and equity for these reasons:
High consuming societies, mostly from wealthy countries, disproportionately contributed to cause the global emissions that cause climate...Finance is obligatory for developed countries for the survival of LDCs and MVCs
Poland, 12 December 2018: Civil Society leaders from MVCs (Most Vulnerable Countries) and LDCs (Least Developed Countries) termed the negotiation outcome frustrating in a press conference held today in the CoP 24 Global Climate Negotiation in Poland. They demanded to finalize the Paris Rulebook as urgent action within this CoP-24. They also demanded to ensure first-start financing by developed countries that is in fact important for adaptation...
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Statements
Statement by Mr. Gauri Pradhan, International Coordinator, LDC Watch at Reality of Aid Global Assembly and CSO Strategy Meeting on Development Assistance Committee (DAC) on Aid, Peace and Security
Reality of Aid Global Assembly and CSO Strategy Meeting on Development Assistance Committee (DAC) onAid, Peace and Security13-15 September 2017, Paris, France Respected Chair,Honourable Chief Guest,Distinguished Delegates,Ladies and Gentlemen! We are standing here against the backdrop of the 2016 Development Assistance Committee (DAC) High Level Meeting decision to revise the reporting directives of Official Development Assistance (ODA) on...
Statement by Gauri Pradhan, International Coordinator of LDC Watch, delivered at the International Conference on Private Education and Human Right
International Conference on Private Education and Human RightSeptember 7, 2017Kathmandu Nepal Ladies and Gentlemen, This is my prime pleasure to be a part of this very important international conference on privatization of education and human rights. I thank you to the organisers for giving me an opportunity to share my thoughts on the theme and extend my message of solidarity to its grand success. As we all know education is the process of...
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Press Release
LDC Watch Calls for Better Trade Terms for LDCs in the MC11
Kathmandu, 12 December 2017
The 11th Ministerial Conference (MC11) of World Trade Organisation (WTO), which will see the gathering of officials from 164 member countries, has convened in Buenos Aires, Argentina from 10 to 13 December 2017. A wide number of agenda that carry specific concern to the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) including agriculture domestic support, Special Safeguard Mechanism (SSM), Public Stockholding (PSH), fisheries...
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LDC Watch in Media
Sustainable graduation the key for Pacific Least Developed countries
By PIANGO, March 15, 2018 Lack of financial security and economic stability is a major contribution to the countries being classed as Least Developed. Head of the Pacific Office for United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) Iosefa Maiava said that strengthening this would enable the Least Developed Countries to graduate or move ahead from where they are. “The way the economy operates and maintains itself...
Energy for all
- Gauri Pradhan
Most least developed countries (LDCs), including Nepal, have ample potential for renewable and clean energy. But they seldom tap that potential. Consequently, 70 percent of the 900 million people living in the 48 least LDCs have limited access to energy. In other words, citizens of seven out of 10 LDCs do not have electricity in their homes.
Women and children spend hours collecting fuel for cooking, building fire, fetching...
