The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”
NOW OUT 📢📢 Our Wrap Up of the World Bank and IMF #SpringMeetings26: #AmericaFirst exacerbates global instability as war on Iran leads to economic shock – and deepens crisis of multilateralism
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📰 Future of IMF’s climate work uncertain, as climate crisis intensifies
“The IMF has made extremely slow progress in supporting countries’ fulfilment of the Paris Agreement goals,” said Federico Sibaja from Recourse, in article 👉 www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/10/futu... @brettonwoodsproject.org
Re the so-called 'cheap energy' strategy: "'green levies' and network charges account for just 6% and 20% of the rise in bills since before the energy crisis [in 2022], respectively, against 53% due to wholesale prices driven by gas"
via @carbonbrief.org
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The @brettonwoodsproject.org’s Winter Observer is now out, featuring coverage of #WorldBank shareholding review, the Bank’s new critical minerals strategy, what the #IMF gets wrong on proposed UK private creditor debt legislation - and much more! 🎅🏻
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Our new Bretton Woods Observer – Autumn 2025 reviews key global trends, from IMF-backed reforms to IFC sustainability Framework review, climate and debt challenges shaping the current international development landscape. Explore the full issue → tinyurl.com/ObserverAutu...
NEW #BWObserver Winter 2025! ❄️
We unpack rising sovereign debt pressures, what FfD4 actually delivered, fresh scrutiny of IMF data, World Bank shareholding reform debates, legislatures’ role in debt workouts, and the macro impact of extreme wealth concentration.
🔗 tinyurl.com/ObserverWinter25
The #WBGMeetings #IMFMeetings Annual Meetings come as the IMF & World Bank struggle to find response to global backlash to neoliberalism, as ‘new Bretton Woods’ reforms sputter👇
🔍 Read our Preamble: tinyurl.com/PreambleAnnu...
The IMF and World Bank #AM2025 declared "uncertainty" the new normal, amid spectacle showcasing US and private capital interests.
Civil society was sidelined, austerity remains the prescription and genuine reform is missing.
Read our Annuals 2025 Wrap-up👇
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Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life.
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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…
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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.
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.
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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…
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The Spring Meetings offered a chilling response to the persisting strains of global instability and multilateralism in crisis.
Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate
Kemi Badenoch has vowed to repeal the Climate Change Act if the Conservatives win the next election, doing away with controls on greenhouse gas emissions and dismantling what has been the cornerstone of green and energy policy for successive governments.
The Conservative party leader was already committed to scrapping the UK’s net zero target but repeal of the Climate Change Act would go much further. It would remove the need to meet “carbon budgets” – ceilings, set for five-year periods, on the amount of greenhouse gas that can be emitted – and disband the Climate Change Committee, the watchdog that advises on how policies affect the UK’s carbon footprint. Continue reading...
