The World Bank announced yesterday that it will support Bolivia until 2015 with more than US$250 million, which will go to rural development projects and highway improvements. Read the news article here in Spanish: La Razón / Willy Chipana / La Paz / 22 de diciembre de 2011
New report by Amazonian indigenous peoples exposes the reality of REDD+ in Peru and proposes solutions.
Commonly, it’s thought that developing countries bear a large portion of the blame for climate change. This study shows that the biggest climate offenders are in fact the richest countries in the world, while low and middle income countries suffer from the effects.
The National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) co-organised a roundtable discussion on the need for more parliamentary accountability and scrutiny of International Financial Institutions such as the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.