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Calling on the world's biggest public development banks to shift their finance out of fossil fuels & into sustainable, renewable energy. #StopFundingFossils
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António Guterres
Secretary-General of the @UN. We will never, ever give up making this world better for everyone, everywhere.
George Monbiot
The corpse at every wedding, the bride at every funeral.
Jason Hickel
Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics
Recourse
Recourse is a non-profit organisation that campaigns for a world where people and planet are at the heart of development
Peter Kalmus
NASA climate scientist. Arrested for defending Earth. @ClimateAd, @EarthHeroOrg. Opinions mine. #EmergencyMode
🚫Fossil Gas Is Not An Exception!
This #WBGMeetings help us urge the World Bank to end all direct and indirect finance for #fossilfuels Now! #EndFossilFinance
Don't Gas Africa
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Climate Action Network International (CAN)
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Greenpeace Africa
Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
Power Shift Africa
Rise Up Movement Tanzania
This week, the #WBSpringMeetings kick off in Washington DC.
Don't Gas Africa is among the dedicated CSOs pushing against #fossilfuel expansion. As the ink fades on the #ParisAgreement , it's NOW or NEVER!
Follow our pages for updates throughout this eventful week!
🚨🚨THIS WEEK🚨🚨Climate and Debt Justice Activists demand climate action comes out of World Bank spring meetings!
The WB must stop funding fossil fuels, break the cycle of debt traps and austerity, and massively increase funding for clean energy and justice.…
Is the World Bank lagging on #FossilFuels ❓
We'll be back at the #WBGMeetings in Washington next week with leading lights in Global South NGOs to learn what communities really want from Multilateral Development Banks ✊ #WorldBankWorldProblems
🤷Are bigger banks necessarily better?
🆕New report from Recourse The Big Shift Global Trend Asia & christianaid calls out private sector-driven #MDBReform agenda and how G20 proposals are perilous for people 🧑🤝🧑 and planet 🌎!
Inflated #ClimateFinance figures, transparency concerns and added burdens on debt-laden economies. Worrying @worldbank report from Bretton Woods Proj.: bit.ly/4auk4Tj #WorldBankWorldProblems
🚨United Nations climate chief Simon Stiell comes down hard on the World Bank.
If the Bank is play a role moving nations to a low-carbon economy, the first step must surely be to stop fuelling the climate crisis & #StopFundingFossils 🤷♂️ Fiona Harvey for The Guardian: bit.ly/3xwwtYp
As we call for a transition to 100% renewable energy, 40 CSOs from around the globe have send an open letter to the World Bank President Ajay Banga asking him to take extreme caution and due diligence with investments in transition minerals. #TreadLightly
re-course.org/newsupdates/op…
Thanks for the platform EnviroNews Let's make the Spring Meetings 2024 the moment the World Bank quits using public funds for fossil fuels #GasIsNotGreen
📣📣Our #DispatchSprings24 is NOW OUT!👇
Spring Meetings 2024 Preamble: 80 years after Bretton Woods Conference, World Bank and IMF fail to evolve antiquated governance structures and policy approaches to meet 21st century challenges.
tinyurl.com/SpringsPreambl…
But...
❌ Gas is responsible for 50% of #greenhousegas rises since 2016
❌ The impact of transporting gas on ships is worse than #coal
❌ Extraction processes like #fracking damage ecosystems, poison water supplies, ruin crops & cause tremors.
#GasIsNotGreen
📢 THIS TUESDAY join us for a X Space discussion on the demands we should be making of The @worldbank Group ahead of the Spring Meetings.
🗓️ April 9, 12.30PM BST twitter.com/i/spaces/1RDGl… #WorldBankWorldProblems