Environment Project Manager @brettonwoodspr 👉 climate advocacy on World Bank/IMF. Climate justice 🤝 economic justice
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NEW briefing from @brettonwoodspr on the first year of @WorldBank Paris-aligned energy lending: $13bn of $19bn committed flowed through opaque policy-based lending instrument - Development Policy Financing - where citizens/CSOs are often not consulted on proposed reforms! 👀
In a new briefing published today, we look at what @WorldBank's Paris alignment approach has meant for its lending in the energy sector
We find that green conditionality via 'policy based lending' dwarfed direct investments in renewable energy: tinyurl.com/WBGParisYearOne
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Peak authoritarianism.
US administration investigating Iran war critic Trita Parsi, says report middleeasteye.net/news/us-ad…
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#News Lens: 90 civil society organisations call on the @WorldBankGroup to act on the soon to expire Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) & come up with a clear plan about how to advance its climate commitments👇
bigshiftglobal.org/CSOLetter…
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Ed Miliband just announced that the Government will aim to delink the price of electricity from gas, something we’ve argued for since 2022.
This is bold, welcome, and targets a core problem in Britain’s electricity prices.
How this happens, though, matters enormously. 🧵
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As the war in Iran wreaks havoc on developing countries, a new issuance of special drawing rights can reduce the risk of financial crisis contagion create tens of thousands of US export-related jobs without costing taxpayers a dime, @Ivana_V_L & @michael_galant argue. @thehill
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Very pleased that - of course - the Charity Commission has found 100% in favour of the wonderful @CityofSanctuary in a spurious complaint against them based on misinformation made, shamefully & pathetically, by Tory MP @GavinWilliamson.
Love beats hate, once again💪🥰
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New BWP Scorecard gives @WorldBank grade C- on climate finance against #ClimateJustice principles
The World Bank reported $50.8bn in climate finance in 2025 – but concerns remain over whether it meets justice and equity principles, with only 9% provided as grants 🧵
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Mar 17
in a sane world this would have happeend 20 years ago.
if your country's politicians aren't saying this during the US-Israel-Iran War...throw them out.
"We need homegrown clean power that we can control"
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Ed Miliband, "The price of gas is set on the international market, whether it comes from the north sea, or is imported"
"We're price taker and not a price maker"
"There is one lesson from this crisis, and only one lesson"
"We need homegrown clean power that we can control"
"We cannot keep being on this fossil fuel roller coaster"
Thank you for the clear explanation @Ed_Miliband - please do this every time the subject is raised and get the message across 👏
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Mar 13
agree w Erica. Disruptions mean Countries will rush to exit US-led oil order.
Worst case scenario for oil ceos (best for rest of us) is that people permanently shift...what they call “demand destruction“
Iran war will accelerate ongoing shift to solar EVs batteries. ie CN winner
Mar 13
One of Erica's main conclusions:
In the short term, the war will increase pain on China's economy.
In the medium term, the war will likely accelerate global demand for Chinese batteries, solar panels and more.
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Something that hasn't sunk in, is that these losses in revenue, damage to infrastructure, and cost of defense as well as replenishing and upgrading military supplies, will all likely reduce Gulf budgets for foreign aid and reconstruction in the region that the West relied on 🧵
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Gulf states lose $15bn in energy revenues since start of war ft.trib.al/7CPzJ15
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In his deposition, DOGE employee Justin Fox said he used AI to tag DEI grants to cancel — without ever instructing the AI on what DEI is. Among the grants terminated was a $350k grant to replace an aging HVAC system at the High Point Museum in North Carolina. The AI flagged it because the grant stated, ‘Improving HVAC systems enhances preservation conditions for collections, aligning with the goal of providing greater access to diverse audiences.’
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Milei campaigned as "the mole" who'd destroy the state from within. Turns out a president who doesn't believe in government isn't great at managing an economic crisis.
Argentina needs actual governance, with an economic strategy, not a chainsaw. newsweek.com/u-s-bailout-arg…
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Despite escalating economic costs of climate impacts and primacy of greentech in geopolitical tensions, US insists climate not ‘core’ to @IMFNews’s work – potentially deepening the Fund’s crisis of legitimacy
More in our #BWObserver Autumn 25👉tinyurl.com/IMFClimateFuture
ALT MF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks at the 2024 World Bank and IMF Annual Meetings in Washington DC. Photo: Grant Ellis/World Bank.
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#News Lens: @Latindadd_Eng & @ceprdc propose new framework with key elements for the playbook on #SDRs 👇
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🔵 From Latindadd and @ceprdc, we propose key elements for the playbook on #SDRs, within the framework of the Seville Commitment, which would provide access to financing and liquidity for the Global South in the face of the ongoing crises and limited access to concessional finance.
👉🏼 Read our working paper: bit.ly/47zvS6D
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16 Oct 2025
🔵 From Latindadd and @ceprdc, we propose key elements for the playbook on #SDRs, within the framework of the Seville Commitment, which would provide access to financing and liquidity for the Global South in the face of the ongoing crises and limited access to concessional finance.
👉🏼 Read our working paper: bit.ly/47zvS6D
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17 Oct 2025
At the plenary session of the @IMFNews and @WorldBank #annualmeetings2025: the institutions double down on a private finance first model to support sustainable development, but the evidence shows that this is a risky bet. The inside rhetoric does not match the outside reality.
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16 Oct 2025
Great to see @IMFNews Mark Flanagan endorse debt legislation on private creditors. @RachelReevesMP, the draft legislation has already been tabled by @BambosMP, let's get it done! 📣📣📣
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16 Oct 2025
🚨Breaking🚨 IMF's Mark Flanagan says we need to advocate for statutory approaches to debt restructuring that make sense. Time for UK debt legislation that compels private creditors to the table.
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Tune in today for a #IMFmeetings CSPF event on IMF's Comprehensive Surveillance Review and economic sustainability, with experts from civil society organisations and @IMFNews
📅 15 Oct, 11:00-12:30 DC
📍IMF HQ2-03B-768B
Zoom: imf.zoom.us/j/93089290405?pw…
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CSO space literally shrunk this year at the @WorldBank's town hall, with a big round-stage set up taking up half the room and civil society following the event in overflow rooms. Many questions are still to be answered. #WBMeetings #AMCSO25
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70 civil society groups are calling on the @IMFNews to create an SDRs Playbook. SDRs provided $650B in COVID relief without fueling inflation. Now we need reforms to unlock their full potential during crises
🔍tinyurl.com/SDRsLetter2025
ALT Photo showing outside and logo of the IMF A Global Coalition of 70 Civil Society Groups Calls for an SDRs Playbook to Unlock Emergency Finance At the 2025 Financing for Development Forum, nearly every country in the world endorsed the Compromiso de Sevilla, urging the IMF to create a Special Drawing Rights playbook. Today, 70 organizations call for reforms to maximize global financial stability and development finance, including automatic issuances, needs-based distribution, and equity-based accounting. Photo showing logon of the IMF
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