Over 130 civil society organisations warn against a return to frontloading austerity in IMF programmes.

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.

World Bank’s 45 per cent climate finance target ‘retired’ after US criticism, with IEG review expected to shape future of CCAP.

Jon Sward, Bretton Woods Project

The World Bank has abandoned a target for 45% of the funding it gives developing countries to be “climate finance”.

The Spring Meetings offered a chilling response to the persisting strains of global instability and multilateralism in crisis.

This issue spotlights how today’s architecture continues to fail developing countries despite renewed momentum for reform at the UN’s FfD4 conference. It explores mounting calls for fairer IMF and…

This issue spotlights how today’s architecture continues to fail developing countries despite renewed momentum for reform at the UN’s FfD4 conference. It explores mounting calls for fairer IMF and…

Annual Meetings showcased the BWIs’ efforts to prove their loyalty to the current US administration and prioritise private capital, even as multilateralism erodes and civil society space shrinks.

The mounting contradictions between rhetoric and practice at the IMF and World Bank grow as geopolitical tensions and poor economic prospects strain social and political stability.

US hostility to IMF’s climate work risks further exacerbating macroeconomic fallout from climate crisis.

This edition exposes how IMF and World Bank austerity and debt policies fuel inequality, repression, and democratic erosion. From Angola’s mass protests to Argentina’s debt crisis…

But this time, it's the U.S. government pushing doubt

Multiple AMOC collapses are simulated in the CESM under transient climate change scenarios A physics-based indicator derived from surface buoyancy fluxes is proposed for the onset of an AMOC coll...

At the start of June, MSN, the world’s fourth-largest news aggregator, posted an article from a new climate-focused publication, Climate Cosmos, entitled: “Why Top Experts Are Rethinking Climate Alarm...

Israel controls the flow of food. It calculated how much Gaza needs – but data shows how this is being withheld The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza. Palestinians cannot leave, war has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so practically every calorie its population eats must be brought in from outside. Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation. Continue reading...

Mohamed Adow argues that a global financial system that entrenches inequality is a key obstacle to crisis responses.

Letter signed by agencies including Doctors Without Borders condemns Israeli military attacks on Palestinians More than 100 aid agencies issued a dire warning that “mass starvation” was spreading across Gaza and urged Israel to let humanitarian aid into the besieged strip to alleviate the growing man-made hunger crisis. A letter signed by 109 agencies including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam International and Amnesty International says the Israeli government is blocking humanitarian organisations from effectively distributing life-saving aid. Continue reading...

In critical Jubilee year, civil society and Global South nations called for debt relief and UN-led debt workout mechanism at FfD4.

After following World Bank energy reform model, government faced with crippling debts and high energy costs.

This edition covers the Jubilee Year 2025 and calls at FfD4 to break the cycle of debt, IMF's Surveillance review, IDA21 package, Argentina, Sri Lanka and the IMF, and more.

By Jon Sward, Bretton Woods Project, and Niranjali Amerasinghe, ActionAid USA Spain hosted the Fourth UN Financing for Development conference (FfD4) in

By Jon Sward, Bretton Woods Project, and Niranjali Amerasinghe, ActionAid USA Spain hosted the Fourth UN Financing for Development conference (FfD4) in

By Jon Sward, Bretton Woods Project, and Niranjali Amerasinghe, ActionAid USA Spain hosted the Fourth UN Financing for Development conference (FfD4) in

Levies on world’s top arabica producer rattles investors in sector

Read the report: Download "Failing the “Climate Test.” The multi-volume analysis, termed the 2024 LNG Export Study, represents the most comprehensive government assessment to-date of the energy, econo...