On the vigil before its annual general meeting (AGM) which takes places between October 7-9, the World Bank has awarded the lowest score by development charity Christian Aid....
Development charity Christian Aid has graded the World Bank ‘F’ as part of the climate impact of the world’s multilateral investment banks. Coming in last place, the World...
Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank, has called for fossil fuel subsidies to be scrapped immediately and for a price to be put...
US secretary of state John Kerry has said that governments and scientists need to come up with policies to stop acidification, overfishing and pollution, which threaten...
Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank, has warned that conflict and social unrest could escalate if the world fails to create a plan to...
As much as a third of all the food the world produces is never eaten, causing huge inefficiencies in economic, energy and natural resource use, according...
Green bond issuance should more than double this year to a global record of $25 billion (£15 billion), according to investment bank HSBC. The proceeds from...
David Cameron has been roundly criticised by campaigners for his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday morning, in which he urged the...
Climate campaigners have urged the elite individuals attending the World Economic Forum in Davos to recognise “the reality of the carbon bubble” and commit to divestment...
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday afternoon, the president of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim urged financial leaders, from banks to...
Some of the world’s leading economists have come together to look at ways in which the health gap between the richest and poorest people on the...
The World Bank has called for a global effort to cut short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), such as black carbon and methane, which accelerate climate change and...
The president of the World Bank has said the US government is just “days away” from creating a major economic disaster, unless politicians can come to...
Former British prime minister Tony Blair has said the time for debating whether humanity is causing climate change is over. Speaking at a major climate conference...
If the world moves past 2C of warming, the lives of many people in vulnerable areas of south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa will be at risk...