Behind the negotiations on the new Convention lies a historic opportunity to overhaul an unjust global tax system and shift the trillions needed. UN vote on the Terms of Reference for the new Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (Source: CESR from United Nations, 2024) By mid-2027, United Nations member states will need to agree on the text of the future United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation (UNFCITC). This new treaty aims to re

Debt was identified as one of the “greatest obstacles” to sustainable development—a point driven particularly by African countries — at the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) under the United Nations, and the outcomes accordingly included a range of commitments aimed at addressing debt challenges. As of the FfD Forum this month, almost one year after FfD4, the international community has begun to move from commitments to implementation of the

(Dialogue Earth) As part of a collection of African perspectives on the COP30 outcome, Dialogue Earth has published analysis from IMAL's Executive Director, Iskander Erzini Vernoit, alongside that of other Africans (full article available here): "Difficult conversations denied, meaningful multilateralism delayed: COP30 tells the story of a hollow process, awaiting the day when governments are ready for at-scale action and funding, not only words, to meet the climate emergency

AP Photo / Andre Penner From COP30 in Belem, analysis and comments from IMAL's Executive Director Iskander Erzini Vernoit, are featured in the Associated Press (AP), also carried by ABC News and various other media outlets, regarding dynamics around climate finance and Article 9.1 in particular: “Various apparent impasses still remain, and chief among these from an African point of view is the unwillingness of the EU and other rich countries to engage on their obligation to p

COP30 needs a dedicated political commitment addressing how to put the global goal into action, write two climate diplomacy experts Evacuees with their tents at an evacuation centre in Quezon City, Philippines, as Super Typhoon Uwan hit the country in early November 2025 (Image: Aaron Favila / Associated Press / Alamy) This article is authored by Imane Saidi, senior researcher in the Diplomacy and Cooperation Programme of the Imal Initiative for Climate and Development, a non

The International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) proposed Net-Zero Framework (NZF), expected to be adopted in October 2025 and enforced by 2027, would introduce a global lifecycle-based compliance system for shipping. It combines greenhouse gas intensity targets with a credit-based pricing mechanism and a Net-Zero Fund (the Fund) projected to generate approximately $10 billion annually. While aiming to accelerate the transition to clean fuels, the framework leaves 90% of globa

Morocco’s third NDC, or NDC 3.0, was published by the UNFCCC earlier this week, setting out important ambitions which align with various...

This article was originally published in Medias24 . From wildfires scorching the Mediterranean region to devastating droughts afflicting...

This briefing was facilitated by the Mediterranean Alliance of Think Tanks on Climate Change (MATTCCh), supported by IMAL and other...

A woman plants mangroves in Timor Leste as part of a resilience project led by the UN Development Programme (Photo: Yuichi Ishida/UNDP...

Following tensions in Baku, the UN climate process resumes in Bonn (June 16-26), with Brazil hoping to bridge divisions before COP30....

“Baku-to-Belem” roadmap on climate finance faces risk of prolonging inaction, entrenching injustice and increasing debt burdens. This...

Last week, the think-tank IMAL was pleased to co-organize the annual workshop of the Mediterranean Alliance of Think Tanks on C limate...

At its sixth session, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement called “on all actors to...

On the occasion of the February meetings of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), IMAL director Rachid Ennassiri has authored a...

Statement on the outcome of COP29 and the new finance goal (NCQG) by IMAL's Iskander Erzini Vernoit, published in African...

As deliberations on the new UNFCCC climate finance goal enter the second week at COP29 in Baku, IMAL director Iskander Erzini Vernoit has...

The following article was co-written by IMAL director Iskander Erzini Vernoit with Bouzekri Razi, director at the Ministry of Energy...

A new UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report released ahead of COP29 calls for an ambitious New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) on...

Speaking to Agence France Presse from the Pre-COP in Baku several weeks ahead of COP29, Iskander Erzini Vernoit, a director at IMAL,...