Center for Participatory Research and Development-CPRD

🌍 CPRD’s 6th Volume of Climate and Development Dialogue - is now available.

This special Issue presents a comprehensive analysis of the outcomes from the 30th Conference of the Parties, held in Belém, Brazil in November 2025.

Despite mounting climate urgency, deep political divisions impeded progress on several critical fronts. Negotiations on fossil fuel phase-out, finance obligations, and trade-related climate measures all stalled, as persistent disagreements over the -RC principle continued to expose the structural limits of multilateral climate diplomacy.

The Brazilian Presidency's overarching political package, titled "Global Mutirão: Uniting humanity in a global mobilization against climate change," sought to position COP30 as a catalyst for accelerated implementation. This volume offers a critical examination of what that framing obscures, and what meaningful progress toward justice and rights-based outcomes will require from future COP processes, including the role of strengthened CSO movements and strategic diplomatic engagement.

This volume also features original research on climate-resilient WASH financing in Bangladesh, tracing how policy commitments translate into measurable resilience outcomes across governance levels. Drawing on financial data from the GCF, GEF, and Adaptation Fund alongside national climate budget reports, the study finds that despite Bangladesh's comparatively advanced climate finance architecture, WASH remains chronically underfinanced and poorly integrated. Sanitation, hygiene, and equity-sensitive investments are routinely absorbed into broader infrastructure or disaster-response portfolios, while vulnerable communities continue to bear significant out-of-pocket costs. The research applies a Green Accountability framework, emphasizing fiscal traceability, institutional coordination, and equity-weighted allocation as the foundational pathways for transforming fragmented climate-tagged spending into coherent, rights-based WASH financing.

✅ Access the full volume here: https://lnkd.in/g3se8hJF

🌍 Earth Day 2026

Earth is our shared home, rich in beauty, diversity, and life. It sustains us in countless ways, yet today, it faces an unprecedented challenge: climate change.

Rising temperatures, extreme weather events, sea-level rise, and biodiversity loss are no longer distant threats to our Mother Earth; they are realities shaping our present and future. Climate change is not just an environmental issue; it is a challenge that affects livelihoods, food security, health, and global equity.

On this Earth Day, let’s reflect on how our everyday actions contribute to both the problem and the solution. Small but meaningful steps reducing our carbon footprint, conserving resources, and supporting sustainable practices can collectively drive real change.

The future of our planet depends on what we do today. Together, through awareness, responsibility, and collective action, we can build a more resilient and sustainable world.

Because protecting Earth means protecting our future.