Blogs
What big oil owes the world
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 25 February 2023
Campaigns: Climate
After the breakthrough on loss and damage at COP27, we must demand that big polluting corporations pay for what they’ve done, writes Daniel Willis. It has hardly been a winter […]
Read moreA win 30 years in the making at COP27
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 25 November 2022
Although it barely seemed possible last month, or indeed during the negotiations, COP27 ended in the early hours of Sunday morning with an agreement to set up a new loss […]
Read moreREVEALED: Big Oil owes $8 trillion in climate damages
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 9 November 2022
Campaigns: Climate
As loss and damage is keenly discussed at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, today we have published research showing that the Big 5 oil companies owe the global south over $8 […]
Read moreFaulty finance and slow progress at COP26
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 10 November 2021
Campaigns: Climate
Amidst a chaotic week and a bit of talks and pledges, the UK’s presidency of COP26 has so far frustrated civil society and failed to live up to global south […]
Read moreThe UK is a long way short of paying its ‘fair share’ of climate finance at COP26
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 16 October 2021
Campaigns: Climate
Boris Johnson has called on rich countries to pledge more climate finance at COP26. But the UK is a long way short of paying its own fair share. At last […]
Read moreThere is no climate justice without debt justice
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 20 September 2021
Campaigns: Aid, Climate
Although it might not seem obvious, the global debt system and climate change are inextricably linked, creating a vicious cycle of financial and ecological crises across the global south.
Read moreIs the UK trying to delay its pledge to dump dirty development?
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 21 January 2021
Campaigns: Climate
The UK government has just launched a new consultation on how to stop funding fossil fuel projects in the global south. We need your help to send them a clear […]
Read moreA victory for aid scrutiny
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 17 December 2020
Campaigns: Aid
Plans by the Leader of the House of Commons to abolish the International Development Committee after Christmas have been shelved. But there is still a long way to go to protect the 0.7%.
Read moreDirty development dumped
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 15 December 2020
Campaigns: Climate
The government has finally announced that it will soon stop funding fossil fuel projects in the global south. This is a huge win for the frontline communities and activists who have been opposing this climate hypocrisy for years.
Read morePeruvian protestors are facing police violence while standing up for democracy
By: Daniel Willis
Date: 15 November 2020
Reports suggest that protestors across Peru have been met with police violence as they demonstrate against the removal of President Martín Vizcarra by Congress. This is the latest in a series of attempted power grabs by parties in Peru’s Congress with worrying implications for the upcoming Presidential elections in 2021.
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