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Sovereign Bond Investing and Human Rights: An Analysis of New Zealand’s Retail Investment Funds
Authors: Anne-Marie Brook | K. Chad Clay | Zoe Shepherd
Working Paper
This paper finds that as of March 2024, more than half a billion dollars of KiwiSaver and other retail investments were lent to governments on ‘high alert’ for human rights violations. This is a chance…
Shifting narratives on funding mitigation abroad: Insights from an international dialogue
Authors: Catherine Leining | Sasha Maher | Lucy Peake | Alessia Casamassima | Albert Ferrari | Lea Heinrich | Simone Borghesi
Working Paper
The stories we tell
About helping each other
Drive climate action
This paper presents insights from a literature review and expert dialogue on how to build public support in advanced economies for funding climate mitigation abroad — by…
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2026-04-10
Appealing to altruism alone won’t spark climate cooperation. New research examines what might work insteadWealthy countries aren’t doing nearly enough to fund climate mitigation in the developing world – and a big part of…
