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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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World Development Movement comment on the Energy White Paper

15 July 2009

Ed Miliband is today unveiling the Energy White Paper and UK carbon budgets. The World Development Movement is concerned that the UK’s climate change strategy will be heavily reliant on carbon trading and unproven techno-fixes to reduce carbon emissions.

G8: an illegitimate institution making disastrous decisions on climate and trade

13 July 2009

Today, the World Development Movement condemns the G8 as an illegitimate institution that is making decisions on measures to tackle the climate and financial crises that will have disastrous effects on the world’s poor.

New Kingsnorth fatal impact on people in developing world

10 July 2009

New stats showing Kingsnorth's impact on water, food, refugees, drought and death

A new Kingsnorth coal plant could be responsible for 100,000 more people in the developing world losing their water supply in dry seasons reveals the World Development Movement today.

Campaigners land blow on 'oil and gas' bank

30 June 2009

The government has been roundly criticised from various quarters for the use of public cash to bail out and prop up RBS.

Welcome to the new WDM website

11 June 2009

Welcome to the new World Development Movement website.

We will be trying out new things, keeping the old things that worked well from our existing website, and moving forward with new and exciting technology.

You can leave comments below about what you think about the new website, send us a message through our contact form, or you can tweet your comments to Pete @wdmuk.

Climate-conscious celebs, grannies, kids, bird and cake lovers to come to Kingsnorth

11 June 2009

Thousands of people who care about climate change and global poverty, including celebs, bird watchers, cake lovers, grannies and young people from across the UK will form a 'Mili-band' – a human chain around Kingsnorth coal power station - on the 4 July to say no to dirty new coal power stations.

After the elections, the hard work really starts…

4 June 2009

So the results are in and weeks of fevered speculation and variable opinion polls now give way to the post European election analysis.

Apathy in the EU: Is it us or the politicians?

3 June 2009

Apathy and discontent are a heady mix. MEP candidates in the UK are facing both in this week's EU elections. But is it really the voters who are apathetic?

What WDM could spend those expenses claims on...

22 May 2009

The headlines over the last few weeks have been dominated by revelations over the expenses claimed by MPs.

What the World Development Movement wants from the G20

1 April 2009

This briefing includes the World Development Movement's critique and recommendations to the G20 leaders on the following areas: trade v protectionism; refuelling the IMF; resurrecting the WTO Doha development round; the climate crisis and the Green New Deal.