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One of the world's leading financial institutions just announced plans to stop financing oil and gas projects. Today at the One Planet Summit, the World Bank officially announced that it will quit financing upstream oil and...

The vast majority of newly built stations in Indonesia relied on export credits agencies or development banks, says study by Market Forces

Special report: The plummeting coal sector and a growing green divestment movement is leaving firms who still invest in fossil fuels and connected pension holders heavily exposed

Tomorrow, on 22 April, members of the Welsh assembly will have the opportunity to vote for a moratorium on opencast coal mining in Wales. With the existing moratorium on fracking and the demise of the deep coalmining industry,...

New analysis reveals funding of over $3bn for fossil fuel-related projects last year, despite repeated calls by bank’s president to scrap such ‘harmful’ global subsidies

The birth pains of ‘ultra mega power projects’ in India have pitched a conglomerate against a small fishing community – and put the World Bank on the defensive

It is extremely encouraging that World Bank president Jim Yong Kim is leading calls for an end to fossil fuel subsidies worldwide (End subsidy on fossil fuels now, 14 April)...

Jim Yong Kim calls for five-point plan to deliver low-carbon growth, including removal of incentives to exploit oil, gas and coal

Jim Yong Kim calls for five-point plan to deliver low-carbon growth, including carbon tax and removal of incentives to exploit oil, gas and coal

The Bangladeshi government intends for every household in the nation to be powered by solar energy by 2021. In the race to become the “first solar nation,” they hope to achieve this goal by focusing on what they call...

World Bank will only fund coal projects in cases of ‘extreme need’ due to the risk climate change poses to ending world poverty, says Jim Yong Kim

Leaked emails show more money could be made available for 'damaging' power and mining projectsEnvironmentalists and human rights campaigners have sounded the alarm at radical plans to ease conditions for World Bank loans,...

Produce Photo from Shutterstock According to the latest issue of the World Bank's quarterly Food Price Watch, the world loses or wastes one-quarter to one-third of all food produced for human consumption...

By Tom Harris and Madhav Khandekar Originally published in The Washington Times Tuesday, December 3, 2013 Bad science puts rich nations on the hook for trillions in climate liabilities Delegates at the recent U.N. climate...

In another stark reminder that the economy and environment can't be separated, a new World Bank report finds that climate-related damage from extreme weather events such as Typhoon Haiyan has cost the global economy $200...