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We have an axe to grind with the World Bank on Africa’s electrification
Bank’s booster Mission 300 reporting data means additionality of new initiative regarding new energy connections unclear.
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Amazonian groups call for reform of financial architecture and end to extractivism
FOSPA challenges BWIs role in financing extractive development, calling for debt cancellation, climate finance and respect for territorial rights.
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US pressure puts regional MDBs’ climate finance commitments at risk
Current US government pressures regional MDBs to roll back climate commitments, as civil society calls for financing for just energy transition.
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World Bank’s Climate Change Action Plan extended despite US pressure
World Bank’s 45 per cent climate finance target ‘retired’ after US criticism, with IEG review expected to shape future of CCAP.
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New Independent Evaluation Office report calls for stronger integration of climate into IMF surveillance and lending
IEO findings echo civil society concerns about IMF’s climate work, with its focus on austerity in surveillance and lending not assessed for its impact on countries’ climate action.
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South Africa’s power utility in early discussions with World Bank on nuclear financing
South African civil society warns planned expansion of nuclear power could lead to increased debt and higher energy costs.
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Fuelling inequality: The gendered impacts of World Bank and IMF fuel subsidy removal
This research provides evidence of the negative gendered impacts of fuel subsidy removal policies in Egypt, Kenya and Bangladesh.
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Grading the World Bank Group on climate justice principles: A scorecard on the Bank’s 2025 climate finance
BWP’s scorecard gives World Bank’s a C- on its reported climate finance for FY 2025.
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Call for just transition becomes COP30 rallying cry, as doubts remain over MDBs’ growing climate finance role
Global South unions call for ‘clean break’ with World Bank’s ‘billions to trillions’ approach in the energy sector.
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Future of IMF’s climate work uncertain, as climate crisis intensifies
US hostility to IMF’s climate work risks further exacerbating macroeconomic fallout from climate crisis.
