Asking for a climate income to tackle climate change.
Citizens’ Climate International, the umbrella group to which we are affiliated, has this year been involved in an action to support the transformation of the World Bank Group needed for the 21st century. There is a growing awareness and acceptance by the World Bank Group that a transformation is needed to move the whole world…
In April Citizens’ Climate International published a press release on the Bretton Woods Action. CCI members from 31 countries, including a UK contingency, sent letters to and phoned their national World Bank Executive Directors requesting that the World Bank Group…. Supports the Bridgetown Initiative of the Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley (financial reform to…
As readers will know we at CCL UK are affiliates of a worldwide organisation, Citizens’ Climate International, which endorses building the political will for a liveable world through five levers of political will. This type of people power has had notable results, most famously in Canada. The current Bretton Woods project has also given the…
For about two months Citizens’ Climate International (CCI) volunteers from every continent have been preparing to have a dialogue with the World Bank about the need for reforms to make multilateral banks fit for the needs of the 21st century. The need for reform had been acknowledged and suggested by the US Treasury last year…
There is a growing momentum behind calls for the World Bank to reform to make it ‘fit for purpose in the 21st century’. This excerpt from an editorial in the New York Times entitled “Humanity is facing a great injustice. The World Bank must respond” says it all…. It’s one of the great injustices of…
As an affiliate of Citizens’ Climate International (CCI), CCL UK aims to build the political will for a liveable world and is nonpartisan – our aim is to put the case for Climate Income to every major UK party. We recently succeeded in arranging a meeting and starting a dialogue with Labour MPs Alan Whitehead…
