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The menace of climate debt
NewAge, July 25, 2008. Dhaka, Bangladesh It is becoming increasingly crucial that governments such as ours adopt training programmes to help bureaucrats across the board attain a more nuanced underst… more »
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The menace of climate debt
Webmaster wrote 1 day ago: NewAge, July 25, 2008. Dhaka, Bangladesh It is becoming increasingly crucial that governments such … more »
Brilliant Plans to Destroy the Planet: The World Bank Tackles Climate Change
Webmaster wrote 2 days ago: The World Bank’s new Climate Investment Funds will do nothing to help the climate; they’ … more »
Climate Change Funds: Bangladesh Environment ministry, ERD at loggerheads
Webmaster wrote 3 days ago: Ministry wants funds in grant, ERD wants in loans Shahidul Islam Chowdhury, NewAge, July 23, 2 … more »
ADB Denials Frustrate Civil Society Groups: Annual Report Suggests Gaps in Routine Disclosure
Webmaster wrote 6 days ago: By Toby McIntosh, July 17, 2008 freedominfo.org As its Public Communications Policy nears its third … more »
NGOs demand better Safeguards Consultation from ADB
Webmaster wrote 2 weeks ago: NGO Forum on ADB, Manila, The Philippines. Nothing less than an open and inclusive second Safegua … more »
Secret report an indictment of WB transparency, agenda
Webmaster wrote 2 weeks ago: Editorial, NewAge, July 6, 2008. Dhaka, Bangladesh In the wake of the global food crisis that has w … more »
Secret Report: Biofuel Caused Food Crisis
Webmaster wrote 2 weeks ago: Internal World Bank Study Delivers Blow to Plant Energy Drive By Aditya Chakrabortty, CommonDreams.O … more »
Agribusiness vs. food security: The food crisis and the IFIs
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: Bretton Woods Project, June 17 2008 The causes of and remedies for the food crisis are hotly con … more »
ADB for privatization of Chittagong port and making it a regional business hub for neighbours
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: The Daily Star, June 18, 2007. Dhaka, Bangladehs The ADB (Asian Development Bank) outgoing country d … more »
WB okays $320m budget support loans for Bangladesh
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: The Daily Star, June 18, 2008. Dhaka, Bangladesh The World Bank (WB) yesterday approved two budget s … more »
What the ADB needs to do to keep it's Asia Clean Energy Forum clean
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: By Renato Redentor Constantino*, Executive Director, NGO Forum on ADB, June 2008 The Asian Clean En … more »
World Bank Called ‘Unqualified’ to Run Climate Fund
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: By Alison Raphael, June 6, 2008. OneWorld.Net WASHINGTON - Organizations from 40 countries called o … more »
World Bank and IMF emergency loans: a cure or a curse for the food crisis?
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: EURODAD, 5 June 2008 The food crisis is unfolding like a tidal wave – or a “silent tsunami” in … more »
Global Civil Society Statement on World Bank Climate Investment Funds
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: June 5, 2008 UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has called on all nations to “come together in a g … more »
World Bank’s Climate Funds Proposal Distorts UNFCCC Principles
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: By Celine Tan, Third World Network, 28 May 2008 The World Bank’s revised climate investment funds … more »
Phulbari Coal Extraction: Open pit mining to affect food security in Dinajpur
Webmaster wrote 1 month ago: The Daily Star, May 31 2008. Oil, gas protection body leaders tell meetings at Phulbari, Nilphamar … more »
Civil Society statement on the World Food Emergency: No More “Failures-as-Usual"!
Webmaster wrote 2 months ago: Historic, systemic failures of governments and international institutions are responsible. Nationa … more »
IMF “Cure” for Food Crisis Also a Cause
Webmaster wrote 2 months ago: By Emad Mekay, May 21, 2008 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) … more »
The World Food Crisis – A Human Rights Disaster
Webmaster wrote 2 months ago: FIAN International press release Geneva/Heidelberg, 22.05.08: Today, the UN Human Rights Council str … more »
