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G20 fails to tackle food price speculation

An action plan supposed to address food insecurity launched today by the G20 agriculture ministers has been criticised by campaigners, who say it fails to fully address the root causes of volatile food prices, including financial speculation, which is driving up prices.

Anti-poverty group the World Development Movement said that opposition from countries including the UK had led to the watering down of proposals that could have seen countries commit to setting limits on speculators’ share of the market.

Deborah Doane, director of the World Development Movement said:

Message to Geldof from Bangladesh: UK aid is promoting sweatshops

A Bangladeshi human rights worker has written an open letter to Bob Geldof ahead of a meeting tomorrow between the rock star and the UK international development secretary, Justine Greening, telling him that UK aid money is promoting sweatshops in Bangladesh.

Climate-conscious celebs, grannies, kids, bird and cake lovers to come to Kingsnorth

Thousands of people who care about climate change and global poverty, including celebs, bird watchers, cake lovers, grannies and young people from across the UK will form a 'Mili-band' – a human chain around Kingsnorth coal power station - on the 4 July to say no to dirty new coal power stations.

The G20: No new beginning for the world economy

At the conclusion of the G20 summit, world leaders heralded the birth of a new economic system. In reality, their plans were designed to prop up an international regime still grossly skewed towards their own economic clout and historical power.

After the elections, the hard work really starts…

So the results are in and weeks of fevered speculation and variable opinion polls now give way to the post European election analysis.

Oil giant Total pauses Madagascar tar sands plans – for now

This Monday WDM campaigners came to the office with big smiles on their faces. Over the weekend, we’d heard that French Oil giant Total, subject to one of our latest online actions, had apparently cancelled its plans to mine tar sands in Madagascar.

High fives all around. Or?

Complaint filed against British coal miner GCM over Bangladesh mine

Campaigners have filed a complaint against British coal miner GCM Resources over a controversial open-pit coal mine in Bangladesh, ahead of the company’s AGM in London today. 

Campaigners land blow on 'oil and gas' bank

The government has been roundly criticised from various quarters for the use of public cash to bail out and prop up RBS.

What WDM could spend those expenses claims on...

The headlines over the last few weeks have been dominated by revelations over the expenses claimed by MPs.

Blogs we read

<p>Below is a list of RSS feeds to blogs and website that we read (although not necessarily agree with). If you want to recommend a blog or suggest that we read yours, please post it in in the comments.</p>

Barclays ends food speculation that made up to £278 million in 2012

Barclays, which announced an end to its speculation on food on Tuesday, made up to an estimated £278 million from the trade in 2012. The figure brings the bank’s total revenue from food speculation from 2010 to 2012 to an estimated three quarters of a billion pounds.

Coal vigil met by Ed Miliband

After months of fantastic coal campaigning as part of the Big If campaign, World Development Movement activists joined other organisations in a vigil outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change to mark the end of the government’s consultation on coal, which closed on 9 September.

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