Brown's Aviation Tax Will Fail To Stop Massive Increase In Emissions

Posted by World Development Movement | Category: Aviation Tax

Gordon Brown’s failure to tackle the climate change crisis is a disaster in waiting for the world’s poor said global justice campaigners the World Development Movement today.

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Clean, Affordable Water: A Priority for Millions of Women in Developing Countries

Posted by World Development Movement | Category: Sanitation Aid

Providing clean, affordable water and adequate sanitation for everyone would transform billions of lives, particularly of women in developing countries, and must be an absolute priority for all aid donors and governments, the World Development Moveme...

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Climate Bill Won't Deliver for The World's Poor

Posted by World Development Movement | Category: Climate Change Bill

Commenting on the publication of the draft climate change bill, anti-poverty campaigners from the World Development Movement (WDM) today called for aviation and shipping emissions to be included in the bill if it was to have any serious impact on lim...

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Climate Change and Global Justice

Posted by World Development Movement | Category: Climate Change in Poor Communities

Climate change campaigner Ricardo Navarro from El Salvador is to tour Britain speaking on how climate change is affecting poor communities around the world.

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Date with Climate Disaster - 8 January 2007

Posted by World Development Movement | Category: CO2 Climate Disaster

A new ‘Climate calendar’ published by the World Development Movement shows that by the end of today (Monday 8 January 2007) the average person in Britain will have already produced as much CO2 as the average person in the world’s poorest countries wi...

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Government Flying in the Face of the World's Poor

Posted by World Development Movement | Category: Aviation White Paper Report

Poverty campaigners the World Development Movement (WDM) today condemned the government for continuing to endorse a massive increase in flying in its progress report on the 2003 Aviation White Paper

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Scrap Airport Expansion and Step Up Aviation Taxes

Posted by World Development Movement | Category: Environmental Aviation Taxes

Commenting on today’s cross-party Commons Environmental Audit Committee report that the European Union emissions trading scheme will have little effect on the growth in aviation’s contribution to climate change, the World Development Movement said th...

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WDM Response To Hilary Benn On Human Right To Water

Posted by World Development Movement | Category: Human Right To Water

World Development Movement welcomes government recognition of water as a human right and challenges government to 'walk the talk'

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Women and Water - A Truly Global Struggle

Posted by World Development Movement | Category: Global Water Crisis

Women in India spend 150 million work days each year collecting water.

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