Blogs
Web of power The UK government and the energy-finance complex fuelling climate change
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 1 March 2013
Campaigns: Climate
Research by the World Development Movement has revealed that one third of ministers in the UK government are linked to the finance and energy companies driving climate change. This energy-finance […]
Read moreCOP18: Doha – the last chance saloon?
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 26 November 2012
Campaigns: Climate
At the end of November 2012, governments will be meeting again, in Doha, Qatar, for the 18th meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the […]
Read moreThe great nature sale
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 16 May 2012
Campaigns: Climate
The green economy the UK government and others are pushing at Rio is based on the idea that we are trashing the global commons because we don’t value it properly. […]
Read morePower to the people?
Type: Reports
Date: 1 November 2011
Campaigns: Climate
The La Mata and La Ventosa wind park in the state of Oaxaca is the World Bank’s flagship Clean Technology Fund (CTF) project in Mexico. The UK government has provided […]
Read moreCOP17: Durban – a tipping point for the international climate talks
Type: Campaign briefings
Date: 14 September 2011
Campaigns: Climate
The UN climate talks in Durban, in late November 2011, could be our last chance to save the current international climate deal. The first period of the Kyoto Protocol ends […]
Read moreA Bank for the Future – Maximising public investment in a low-carbon economy
Type: Reports
Date: 7 July 2010
Campaigns: Climate
This report, commissioned by WDM and PLATFORM and written by former PriceWaterhouse Coopers consultant James Leaton, shows how we could create 50,000 green jobs by transforming the publicly-owned Royal Bank […]
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