Oil Change International released a report today at the World Bank Annual Meetings in Singapore calling on the World Bank to stop using aid money to subsidize the expansion of the international oil industry - what we call “End Oil Aid”. Read the Reuters story here.

Hello from the International People’s Forum on the IMF and World Bank (IPF) on the island of Batam, Indonesia! Batam is a short ferry ride from Singapore, where the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are in the process of holding their Annual General Meeting. The IPF has brought together hundreds of social and […]

At last some good news: A major new educational initiative on climate change has been launched on the Net. Called “Focus the Nation” it will involve over 1000 universities, colleges and high schools in the US in a simultaneous one-day symposia that will explore the challenge of “Stabilizing the Climate in the 21st Century”.
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Hot of the heels of the two NASA reports is a further one from British scientists saying that drastic action is needed if we are to avoid catastrophic climate change. The government-funded Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, the leading climate change research body, has revised upwards by a massive 50% the cuts in greenhouse […]

The Independent today reports on the story we blogged on yesterday about disappearing sea-ice reported by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. However it is even worse – another NASA study – this time by the Goddard Space Flight Centre, in Maryland, shows that the perennial ice melting rate, has also accelerated rapidly.
As the Independent […]