The World Bank, which has invested over $25 billion in oil, gas and coal projects since 1992, when the Climate Convention was signed, has yet to learn the meaning of sustainability. The Bank is now promoting the growth of coal and nuclear technologies as panaceas for developing countries.
The Labour peer called for new coal power in the Global Warming Policy Foundation’s annual lecture.
Blunt communication is our firewall.
The programme is “yet another bung to industrial production”, experts say.
Critics say new LNG ventures in British Columbia saddle Indigenous communities with debt, opaque ownership structures, and financial risk that could leave them owing billions.
