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Emmanuel Macron, Mia Amor Mottley, and William Ruto | First published in Project Syndicate l levies on carbon dioxide emissions and other economic activities that channel proceeds to developing countries. The benefits of scaling up such measures would be far-reaching. BAKU – From Bridgetown to Nairobi to Paris, no country is immune to the worsening…

Denmark has joined the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force (GSLTF), a task force working to make polluters pay to finance climate and development action. This announcement comes in the wake of a packed United Nations General Assembly schedule for the task force, as Heads of State, sherpas and co-chairs gathered in New York to further progress on solidarity levies discussions.

On April 19th, the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, co-chaired by France, Kenya, and Barbados, held a Civil Society Organization (CSO) convening organized by the ITTF’s Secretariat and moderated by Laurence Tubiana, co-lead of the Secretariat. The event aimed to gather expertise and input on levies from nearly 60 attendees, both in-person and online. During…