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Welcome to the World Development Movement news pages. You can view our news by category in each campaign section, or get the whole lot below. For press inquiries please contact the press office.

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Nick Dearden starts as director the World Development Movement

13 September 2013

Campaign groups must find ever better ways of bringing people together to challenge the financial takeover of every aspect of our world, says Nick Dearden as he takes up his new role.

RBS carbon emissions up to 1,200 times higher than reported figure

27 August 2013

New research has revealed that Royal Bank of Scotland’s 2012 carbon emissions could be up to 1,200 times higher than the figure reported by the bank, and 18 times the total emissions of Scotland.

Africa’s food sovereignty under attack by corporate interests

18 August 2013

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) Press release

Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a coalition of pan-African networks, with members in 50 African countries and representing smallholder farmers, indigenous peoples and civil society, met in Addis Ababa 12-16th August 2013 to formulate an action plan to safeguard Africa’s sovereignty over its food, seeds and natural resources from the assault on Africa’s food systems.

Campaigners to hand out ‘carbon bubbles’ at London Stock Exchange AGM

17 July 2013

Campaigners will give bottles of ‘carbon bubbles’ to shareholders at the London Stock Exchange AGM today, to highlight the vast reserves of unburnable carbon held by fossil fuel companies listed on the exchange.

EU ministers leave the door open for harmful food speculation

21 June 2013

Little will be done to curb harmful food speculation today as EU finance ministers meet to approve their position on the new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) – which sets new regulations for financial markets. According to a broad coalition of environmental and development organisations, loopholes in the legislation will render it ineffective to prevent food speculation, and the resulting food price spikes that hit the poorest the hardest.

UK government accepts complaint over GCM Resources’ Bangladesh coal mine

14 June 2013

British company GCM Resources was dealt a serious blow today as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) agreed to consider complaints regarding severe human rights violations associated with the company’s planned coal mine in Bangladesh. 

African groups reject G8 corporate food plan as ‘colonialism’

3 June 2013

African farmers’ movements and civil society groups have rejected the G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition as part of a “new wave of colonialism” targeting their food systems for corporate profit.

Champagne bar highlights HSBC bankrolling climate change

24 May 2013

Campaigners set up a ‘Carbon Bubbles champagne bar’ outside of HSBC’s AGM to highlight the bank’s role in financing dirty energy projects.

Barclays AGM: Protestors to target Barclays for gambling on food

24 April 2013

Campaigners from the World Development Movement will protest at Barclays’ AGM tomorrow, accusing the bank of contributing to global hunger through gambling on food prices.

Anglo-American to face protests at AGM over mines in Colombia and South Africa

18 April 2013

British mining giant Anglo-American will face protests at its London AGM on Friday over controversial mining projects in Colombia and South Africa, and the climate impact of its coal extraction.