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PRESS RELEASE | January 30, 2022
Climate campaigners wearing colorful tiger masks held a flash mob at the Fil-Chinese Friendship Arch in Binondo Manila Sunday (January 30) to celebrate the Tiger Lunar New Year as the year of action for total coal phase out and rapid development of renewable energy systems in the Philippines and the rest of Asia.
COVID19 brought staggering challenges to survival to people everywhere, most of whom have already been dealing with economic precariousness, impacts of an escalating climate crisis, and violence in many forms. This is especially true for women, for people of color, for indigenous peoples, migrants, farmers, workers and others who have had to grapple with additional layers of discrimination and marginalization.
As a key milestone to COP 26 and avowed supporter of common action for climate, biodiversity and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the #FinanceinCommonSummit2021 must ensure that public development banks and the governments that control them must commit to take bold, rapid and concrete steps in the right direction to address the multiple crises that the world, especially the Global South, continue to face.
We reiterate our calls to
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As peoples and organizations committed to the transparent, accountable, and just restructuring of tax systems, we call on governments to take urgent measures to make tax and fiscal policies more responsive to the needs of people and the planet and reject policies and initiatives that will exacerbate inequalities within countries and across countries such as the OECD-G7-G20 Tax Deal.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on our citizens present a historic opportunity to transform tax systems. Given the urgency of providing solutions to these pressing needs, it is lamentable that proposals by the world’s richest nations fail to address fundamental inequities in our global tax architecture.
On July 10 2021, the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors concluded their third meeting with a resounding endorsement of the unambitious and undemocratic two-pillar solution of the G7 and the OECD. The G20 endorsement is the latest rubber stamp to the agenda dominated and led by the Global North to redefine global tax rules exclusively for their own benefit. While painting the illusion of plugging foregone revenues, the G20 and the OECD’S two-pillar proposal is a false solution that opens more loopholes for tax abuses than it closes. The consequence of the OECD/G20 agreement is strikingly simple – it undermines the calls of peoples from the Global South for a comprehensive, democratic, and just system of global corporate taxation.
Briefs on Energy and Energy Finance
of Selected Asian Countries
The G7 Summit will be held this weekend
- a regular meeting of the governments
of the richest, industrialized countries
in the world - the US, UK, Germany,
France, Italy, Canada and Japan.
This year’s meeting’s supposed objective
is “to unite leading democracies to help
the world build back better from
the COVID-19 pandemic and create
a greener, more prosperous future.”
Statement on the Israeli invasion
of Gaza and the Israel-Hamas Truce
The Asian Peoples’ Movement
on Debt and Development
welcomes the ceasefire between Israel
and Hamas after 11 days of fierce fighting,
the most intense conflict between
the two parties since 2014.
The ceasefire provides relief from military
violence and better conditions to ensure
that humanitarian assistance is delivered
to the affected communities.
But the roots of the conflict run deep –
for so long as the root causes
are not addressed, peace for the people
of Palestine remains fragile if not elusive.
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The report of the High-Level Panel
on International Financial
Accountability, Transparency
and Integrity for Achieving
the 2030 Agenda or FACTI Panel
underscores the urgent need
to address the systemic problem
of illicit financial flows (IFF) which,
if left unabated, will continue
to widen inequalities.
APMDD believes in social transformation that is all encompassing and interrelated:
it is economic, political, cultural and environmental and has class,ethnicity/race and gender dimensions.
As its contribution to social transformation, it will focus on:
People-Centered Development, Economic and Environmental Rights and Justice