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....
The World Bank has shaped the Nigerian water sector has persisted with numerous failed water privatisation initiatives for decades, causing yet more controversy. In Lagos, ongoing street protests, global pressure from...
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...
ClientEarth have responded to a report by the World Bank which concludes that air pollution deaths cost the global economy $225 billion in 2013. James Thornton,...
An investigation by Greenpeace Africa investigation have uncovered a breach by the DRC government to showed it violated its own 2002 moratorium on new logging titles, granting...
GreenWish Partners and Denham Capital have announced they will collaborate to create renewable energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa. The leading international private equity firm Denham Capital,...
The Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP) annual report has revealed that climate change is rapidly moving up the agenda for the world’s biggest investors. Pension funds...
An unprecedented coalition of 38 governments, hundreds of businesses and influential international organisations has called today for accelerated action to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, a...
The World Bank is right to highlight the connection between poverty and climate change but needs to practice what it preaches and stop funding fossil fuel...
For the first time, an unprecedented alliance of Heads of State, city and state leaders, with the support of heads of leading companies, have joined forces...
Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe welcomes the fact that global finance ministers attending the joint World Bank and International Monetary Fund summit in Lima expressed their...
The European Investment Bank (EIB), the world’s largest lender for climate related projects, will increase the proportion of its lending in support of climate related investment...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
Blue & Green Daily finds and summarises the top sustainability stories around the web every morning. We start with our own picks from Blue & Green...
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...