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What happens when mining companies enter communities and start mining? Who benefits and who suffers?

Since the UN Conference on Financing for Development in Addis Ababa in 2015, the international community has been almost at one in repeating the mantra: only by mobilising private finance will it be possible to fund the Sustainable Development Goals.

Global inequality is growing steadily – unlike development financing by OECD members. Rich countries like Switzerland rely mainly on dubious accounting practices to whitewash their contribution.

The foundation set up in Geneva in September to manage USD 3.5 billion from the Afghan Central Bank is playing it safe – by doing nothing. Switzerland seems to endorse the American position.

What does Pakistan have to do with a bank in Silicon Valley which invests short-term client funds in long-term paper, the value of which diminishes when interest rates rise?

In view of the polycrisis, the UN is calling for a "haircut", a debt cut of 30%. It is high time that Swiss commodity traders also accept this.

Switzerland will be voting on urgent climate goals in June. Meanwhile, the Government is relying on offsets abroad for one third of its emission reductions up to 2030. That is not how climate justice works.

Sandy beaches, rum and colourful fish. That is the Caribbean from the travel catalogue. What is not mentioned is that the Caribbean islands are especially vulnerable to natural phenomena.

The third High Level Meeting (HLM3) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC) ended with mixed results, says Vitalice Meja, Executive Director of Reality of Aid Africa.