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In Nicaragua, activists challenge the value of international ‘green’ financing

Maxwell Radwin 30 Aug 2024
Chimpanzee

A rush for ‘green’ iron is on in Guinea. Will chimpanzees be a casualty?

Juliette Portala 17 Jan 2024
Coal mining

World Bank still backs coal in Asia, despite climate claims, report reveals

Carolyn Cowan 5 Oct 2023

World Bank-backed attempt to commercialize Madagascar’s beef industry falters

Malavika Vyawahare 24 Jul 2020

World Bank-funded factory farms dogged by alleged environmental abuses

John Cannon 16 Jul 2020

Brazilian meatpacker expands with World Bank funding but fails to reduce impacts in the Amazon

Naira Hofmeister 9 Jul 2020

World Bank’s IFC pumped $1.8b into factory farming operations since 2010

Ashoka Mukpo 7 Jul 2020

Vietnamese agribusiness firm HAGL accused of clearing indigenous land in Cambodia

Michael Tatarski 15 Jun 2020

Biodiversity ‘not just an environmental issue’: Q&A with IPBES ex-chair Robert Watson

Mongabay.com 17 Oct 2019

Conservationists call for lasting ban on trade in Malagasy precious timber

Malavika Vyawahare 3 May 2019

Report finds World Bank’s coal divestment pledge not stringent enough

Hans Nicholas Jong 23 Apr 2019

Successful forest protection in DRC hinges on community participation

John Cannon 12 Mar 2017

World Bank loans support high-carbon development in Indonesia: report

Isabel Esterman 26 Jan 2017

World Bank money is helping to finance Asia’s coal boom: report

Isabel Esterman 19 Oct 2016

A plan to save the Mekong Delta

David Brown 18 Oct 2016
A mural of murdered activists Berta Cáceres in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Photo by disoniador via Pixabay.

In Latin America, environmentalists are an endangered species

Lindsay Fendt 11 Aug 2016

World Bank lifts freeze on Cambodia loans amid protests

Daniel Pye 20 May 2016

Damming Dissent: Community leaders behind bars in Guatemala after opposing hydro projects

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jul 2015

Indonesia’s public water movement consolidates after two of its biggest wins

Mongabay.com 17 Apr 2015

World Bank’s forest carbon program falls short on indigenous peoples’ rights, argues report

Mongabay.com 5 Feb 2015

Norway puts $1.6B into rainforest conservation

Mongabay.com 19 Aug 2014

Global warming puts trillions at stake, but mitigation offers big economic gains

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2014

Africa to build world’s largest dam, but who will benefit?

Dr Liz Kimbrough 17 Dec 2013

Indigenous groups protest hydropower congress as controversy hits meeting in Malaysia

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2013

Activists blast World Bank on continued support of industrial rainforest logging

Rhett A. Butler 11 Feb 2013

World Bank’s forestry investments failing to meet conservation, rights, and anti-poverty goals, finds internal audit

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2013

World Bank REDD+ forest carbon fund gets $180m injection

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2013

World Bank: 4 degrees Celsius warming would be miserable

Jeremy Hance 20 Nov 2012

Artificial ‘misting system’ allows vanished toad to be released back into the wild

Jeremy Hance 1 Nov 2012

World Bank agrees to fund project related to controversial Gibe III dam

Michael Rudolph 27 Sep 2012

Interview with the new CEO of The GEF, the world’s largest funder of environmental projects

Mark Szotek 30 Jul 2012

Fight illegal logging by going after criminal masterminds

Jeremy Hance 22 Mar 2012

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