Report

This new report, commissioned by WDM and PLATFORM and written by former PriceWaterhouse Coopers consultant James Leaton, shows how we could create 50,000 green jobs by transforming the publicly-owned Royal Bank of Scotland into a powerful Green Investment Bank.

WDM and PLATFORM have been campaigning against RBS's socially and environmentally disastrous investments, particularly their funding of destructive tar sands mining. But by following the recommendations of the report, the bank could become a force for social and environmental good.

In 'The great hunger lottery', World Development Movement has compiled extensive evidence establishing the role of food commodity derivatives in destabilising and driving up food prices around the world. This in turn has led to food becoming unaffordable for low-income families, particularly in developing countries highly reliant on food imports.

In The Great Hunger Lottery, the World Development Movement has compiled extensive evidence establishing the role of food commodity derivatives in destabilising and driving up food prices around the world. This in turn, has led to food prices becoming unaffordable for low-income families around the world, particularly in developing countries highly reliant on food imports.

Reports by Tom Lines, commissioned by the World Development Movement, on the impact of speculation on food and proposals of how to regulate it.

Download 'Cashing in on Tar Sands' (PDF format)

As the oil sources available to Western oil majors became scarcer, the relative commercial attractiveness of the Alberta tar sands have improved.

This report is a guide to the policies of UK political parties ahead of the UK general election to be held on 6 May 2010. It seeks to give a guide to the policies of Labour, Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Greens, Scottish National Party (SNP) and Plaid Cymru in key areas relating to international justice: trade justice; more and better aid; making the economy work for poor people and repaying our climate debt.

Media briefing on Thursday 17 December 2009 on the bad deal being proposed by rich countries in the climate change negotiations, and the aggressive way they are trying to secure such a deal.

The Climate Debt Crisis marks a major step in efforts to draw the links between the overuse of the world’s resources, particularly greenhouse gas emissions, and the unjust and economically harmful financial debt foisted upon the world’s poorest countries.

Towards a Royal Bank of Sustainability:
protecting taxpayers’ interests;
cutting carbon risk By Nick Silver

WDM submission to the September 2009 UK government consultation on coal power. It argues the case for why new coal power stations should not be built in the UK, such as E.On's plans at Kingsnorth in Kent.