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All the online actions from the WDM website

This page lists all the actions from the WDM website, in the order they were posted.

8 November 2012

Global food prices are soaring, pushing many more of the world's poorest people into hunger.

Financial speculators are rushing to cash-in on rising prices. Experts predict that betting on the cost of food will push prices through the roof, as it did in 2008 and 2011.

26 October 2012

MEPs have now voted on food speculation. Read our verdict on the outcome here.

In total 14666 emails were sent to MEPs in the UK - thanks very much for supporting the campaign.

20 August 2012

This action has now ended - hundreds of people uploaded photos which we will be presenting to George Osborne before a crucial vote in the Europe on new laws to regulate food speculation.

You can see all the photos that were uploaded here.

Please email George Osborne and ask him to support strong new laws to regulate food speculation.

4 July 2012

As I approached the registration desk and collected my identity badge I was glad I’d followed my better senses. Blending in as I seated myself and took in the lavish corporate backdrop, it was clear that upholding sartorial conventions is taken seriously. As the Libor scandal envelops the financial world perhaps I wasn’t alone in quipping to myself that these conventions seem to be taken rather more seriously than following financial regulations or, dare I say it, any ethical code.

8 June 2012

Thanks for sending an email to Lord Turner, chairman of the Financial Services Authority. Your email will help remind the FSA that it needs to act in the interest of the public on the issue of food speculation. 

One more thing…

We want the FSA to really feel the impact of public pressure, so would you be able to follow up your email with a phone call?

The phone number is 020 7066 1000.

8 June 2012

We’ve known all along that the financial lobby is fighting hard against measures to tackle food speculation so that banks can continue to profit from hunger.

30 April 2012

The idea behind this is that if the carbon stored in forests is valued and quantified, forests will be seen as more valuable standing than they would be cut down. Companies will have to earn the right to cut down trees or emit carbon either by planting new trees somewhere else (plantation) or by instituting better forest management in order to cut down on logging.

27 March 2012

This action has now ended. Thank you to everyone who took part. 

27 October 2011

Scotland has a world-leading climate change act with ambitious but achievable targets to reduce carbon emissions by 2020 and 2050. But these can only be achieved if public money finances our transition to a low carbon society.

In order to meet the first target, eight years from now, the next Scottish budget must properly fund action to cut Scotland’s carbon emissions.

As the next budget is being prepared, WDM Scotland is working with Stop Climate Chaos Scotland on a campaign to make sure that public funding for action on climate change is given priority.

6 July 2011

For the last year, WDM has been leading the UK campaign to get new rules introduced to tackle food speculation. We've been focusing our efforts on exposing the role of banks, like Barclays, in driving up food prices and we've been mobilising public pressure to get the UK government to support effective regulation on food speculation. 

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