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On May 22, 2024, more than 45 international organizations, including 22 ESCR-Net members, endorsed a letter calling on the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to adopt a holistic and pragmatic policy solution in addressing inequalities in taxation, the debt crisis, and climate justice. This solution, according to signees, should embrace ongoing conversations regarding the United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation as one of the essential steps to realizing the goal of urgent transformation of the global tax system to align with equality and comply with international human rights standards and principles.

This year, two of the most important climate litigation cases in which ESCR-Net has intervened had rulings from the European Court of Human Rights. On April 9, 2024, the Court handed down long-awaited judgments in two cases examining States’ climate change obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights: the cases of KlimaSeniorinnen and Duarte Agostinho.

The 60th climate negotiation sessions – or ‘SB60’- just concluded in Bonn, Germany. Among other issues, SB60 addressed the operationalization of the Loss and Damage Fund (LDF) and the post-2025 climate finance goals, also known as the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG). The negotiations aim to lead to agreement on both issues at this year’s Conference of Parties (COP29) in Azerbaijan. ESCR-Net members closely followed SB60, actively (link is external)engaged(link is external) in various cross-constituency actions guided by collective analysis established post COP28 in Dubai.