Report

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.

WDM’s submission to the Environmental Audit Committee’s inquiry into the role of carbon markets in preventing dangerous climate change.

This report assesses the role that UK, European and US banks play in developing countries, especially following trade deals which locked-in financial services liberalisation. It shows how the loan practices of big foreign banks in India and Mexico were reducing access to credit for small firms or poor households, and shifting credit away from ‘productive activities’ towards funding personal consumption for wealthier people.

WDM’s submission to the Transport Committee’s inquiry into the future of aviation.

Carbon Evictions presents evidence that our reliance on dirty and outmoded forms of economic growth, including ever expanding air traffic and coal-fired power plants, is posing the threat of worldwide evictions. It is the world’s poor who are most vulnerable to displacement from climate-related disasters.

WDM’s submission to the International Development Committee’s (IDC) inquiry into sustainable development in a changing climate. WDM focus on the following four points: The proposed Phulbari open-cast coal mine project in Bangladesh; The centrality of creating a low carbon economy in the UK to enable sustainable development in the global south; The unsustainable use of carbon; The need to halt the growth in aviation emissions from the UK, and the impact this would have on sustainable development in the global south.
 

This report from nef (the new economics foundation) and the World Development Movement (WDM) examines the economic arguments for the aviation industry, assesses their worth and exposes the plain truths. It focuses on the relationship between aviation, tourism and development in poorer countries.