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Occupy World Street: a call to action for the '99 per cent'
Matilda Lee
21st March, 2012
The Ecologist speaks to author, activist and former businessman Ross Jackson about his idea for a roadmap for radical economic and political reform more...
Kazakhstan fights to save its corner of a divided Aral Sea
Matilda Lee
9th September, 2011
On the Kazakh side of the Aral Sea, water levels are rising, and fishing communities are being rebuilt. The future of the South Aral Sea, bordering on Uzbekistan, is still in doubt. Matilda Lee reports from Aral City more...
Why India doesn't need World Bank energy funding
Matilda Lee
3rd June, 2011
Ahead of the release of the World Bank's revised energy strategy, the Ecologist speaks to sustainable development advocate Srinivas Krishnaswamy about why despite huge gigawatt power projects, 45 per cent of India's households still lack electricity more...
How Essex schoolchildren help save endangered species through Millenium Seed Bank
Kara Moses
19th November, 2010
Kara Moses reports on a group of 10-year-olds from Holly Trees Primary School who - by fundraising for Kew's Millennium Seed Bank Partnership - have helped secure the future of a rare Namibian plant that was virtually extinct in the wild more...
World Bank invests record sums in coal
Juliette Jowit, Observer environment editor
16th September, 2010
Last year, $3.4bn was invested in the dirtiest fossil fuel despite international commitments to cut emissions more...
World bank hints Africa is ‘quick win’ for land grabbing investors
Ecologist
14th September, 2010
Report on land-grabbing reveals large-scale farmland deals amounted to 45 million hectares in 2009 alone with 6 million hectares expected to be added every year in less industrialised countriesmore...
Paul Collier: saying 'nature has to be preserved' condemns the poor to poverty
Matilda Lee
14th May, 2010
Oxford Economics Professor and former head of Development Research at the World Bank, Paul Collier on reconciling romantic environmentalism and mainstream economics to help poor countries more...
Wangari Maathai: fighting for Kenya's environment
Nicola Graydon
1st March, 2005
Wangari Maathai’s Nobel prize-winning activism has thrust the environment to the forefront of the global security agenda more...
Progress is slow, but Zambia might yet see fair copper mining
Chris Hegarty
9th October, 2009
Scottish aid agency SCIAF responds to the Ecologist's article, 'Conned for her copper: Zambia pays the price for aid' more...
World Bank shackling developing world to high-carbon future
Ecologist
6th October, 2009
World Bank lending figures reveal that fossil fuel projects are still receiving the lion's share of funding more...
Conned for her copper: Zambia pays the price for aid
Khadija Sharife
29th September, 2009
Copper underwires the modern world, running through everything from the gas guzzler to the wind turbine. Any country that finds substantial reserves of the metal ought to consider itself to have struck gold. That is, until you let the World Bank decide how your mines should be run… more...
Legal challenge to Treasury over RBS investments
Ecologist
2nd July, 2009
A green coalition has brought a legal challenge against the Treasury for refusing to rein-in the Government-owned RBS bank, which continues to invest in polluting industries more...
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Ecologist guide to ethical finance
Ecologist
14th October, 2009
Banks, building societies, ethical funds, pensions or people - where should the discerning environmentalist put their money? more...
Bank backlash from Peoples' Tribunal in Bangladesh
Ecologist
1st February, 2009
Peoples' Tribunal calls for World Bank, IMF and Asian Developmen Bank ban. more...
World Bank is unfit to manage new global climate funds, say 142 organisations
Ecologist
19th January, 2009
Environmental groups were pleased at the end of 2007 when the UN announced that its under-resourced adaptation funds - established to help less-industrialised nations adapt to the effects of climate change - were to receive a cash injection. more...
Farming despair
Raj Patel
1st November, 2007
As the bluetongue virus sinks its teeth into British livestock, there is one appalling certainty: like the outbreaks of Mad Cow Disease and foot-and-mouth before it, some farmers will see no way out, and take their own lives. Farmers in Britain are the profession second most likely to commit suicide (after, bizarrely, dentistry). more...
New carbon trading scheme aims to preserve forests
News
4th July, 2007
A new U.N. led scheme called "Reduced Emissions from Deforestation" (RED) is due to be announced later this year that aims to make it rewarding for countries to preserve their forests rather than cut them down.more...
750,000 a year killed by Chinese pollution
News
3rd July, 2007
In a damning cover up the Chinese government has used its involvement in a World Bank report on the environment to conceal results that show around three quarters of a million people in the country die prematurely each year due to pollution. more...
Campaigners celebrate collapse of trade talks
News
25th June, 2007
Environmental groups have welcomed the collapse of the latest round of Doha trade talks, which fell apart on Friday. more...
The Ecologist's 'Real Green Budget'
Mark Anslow
23rd March, 2007
Environmentalists had waited with baited breath for the Chancellor's 2007 Budget. Gordon Brown had intimated that it would be the 'greenest ever'. In fact, it was a resounding disappointment. more...
World Bank: Deforestation Good for Growth
News
22nd February, 2007
The World Bank has released a report encouraging the Indonesian government to create vast timber plantations that would damage local ecosystems and livelihood, in order to encourage economic growth.more...
Milton Friedman: Architect of Neoliberalism RIP
Paul Kingsnorth
1st December, 2006
Death is rarely something to be celebrated, but I can’t say I shed a tear last week when I heard that Milton Friedman, the father of neoliberal economics, had gone to the great free market in the sky. more...
Backing the Bad Guys
Noreena Hertz
1st December, 2004
As the world’s poorest countries sink further and further into debt, Western corporations grow fat from government-backed projects that fuel conflicts, harm the environment and have built-in kickbacks.more...
A thirst for power: China in Tibet
Lynne O’Donnell
1st June, 2004
Since colonising Tibet in 1959, China has ripped out virgin forests, dug up minerals and metals, and dumped nuclear waste with little regard for the fragile ecology of the Tibetan plateau.more...
Bogotá's fight for public water
Maria Teresa Ronderos
1st March, 2004
How the Colombian capital Bogotá defied the World Bank and the multinationals, refused to privatise and turned its water services into the best in the country more...Members
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