Today is my final day as the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.
I would like to thank all of the amazing people whom I met on this journey!
Please join me in giving a warm welcome to Astrid Puentes, the new Special Rapporteur

1/2. 📩In an important letter to the Board of the #LossAndDamage Fund led by APMDD, #CivilSociety organisations from across the world make it clear that their presence at #LossAndDamage Fund Board meetings is essential to ensure that policies reflect real-world needs!

At the closure of nominations 4PM today, these two are the nominated candidates for the Solomon Islands Prime Ministers position.
OUR Party Coalition: Jeremiah Manele.
CARE Coalition: Mathew C. Wale.

The first meeting of the #LossAndDamage Fund Board has just started. Naveena Sadasivam wrote an excellent preview of the meeting for grist, and got the details of the complex LDF/World Bank negotiations right, which is no easy feat: grist.org/international/…

Statement from the Party of Kanak Liberation #Palika to mark the death of Fote Trolue - the first indigenous Kanak to serve as a magistrate, then judge, in #NewCaledonia . Trolue was a leading intellectual and jurist, working to reconcile French law and Kanak custom.