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 @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! 🎅🏻 www.brettonwoodsproject.org/publications...

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👇 tinyurl.com/WrapUpAnnual...

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...

📰 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

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...

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 www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh...

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

New op-ed by Patricia Miranda & @jonsward.bsky.social: Backing #SDRs reform is one way for Britain and the EU to demonstrate commitment to building stronger and fairer global financial system and limiting the possibility of global financial chaos #SDRsPlaybook www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt....

So powerfully put - and terrifyingly accurate. We no longer hear the truth, because the truth is deeply inconvenient & because it poses a direct challenge to vested interests - and as a result, our lurch towards climate catastrophe accelerates

This characterization of the IMF’s climate work as ‘woke’ and ‘far left’ is just plain wrong The IMF’s fragmented approach to climate is embedded in its wider austerity-based advice - firmly rooted in Reaganomics. This has persistently failed to deliver economic stability (Screenshot via NY Post)

“It would be reasonable to ask yourself how you can have a meaningful discussion of any topic in science if you’re ignoring nearly all of the scientific literature on that topic.” 🔥 open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

NEW: UK taxpayers are losing £22 billion every year from losses at the Bank of England - the same as the entire Home Office annual budget. This is the result of a flawed implementation of the BoE's quantitative easing programme. We propose two steps to fix this leak. (1/4)

“When the AMOC collapses, the Northwestern European climate changes drastically and this will likely induce severe societal impacts.” Rapid climate action is needed to avoid the increasing risk of a climate transition that is by disaster rather than by design.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

AI ‘Slop’ Websites Are Publishing Climate Science Denial - MSN hosted AI-generated conten citing non-existent climate experts and institutions. - “AI has brought the cost of #disinformation down to nothing. It has automated bullshit” By @joeygrostern.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2025/08/27/a...

legit thought this was @theonion.com

1/3.⏰TOMORROW! ⏰: Join us for an important webinar unpacking what the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) Advisory Opinion (#ICJAO) on #ClimateChange means for #ClimateJustice. ⚖️ 🗓️August 14th ⏰ 8am GMT | Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi... ⏰ 1pm GMT | Register here: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

Motherfucking wind farms…

Climate justice won’t happen without debt justice Mohamed Adow lays it out: 🌍 Cancel the debt 📜 Reform the debt system via a UN convention 💸 Grants, not loans 🌐 Global tax reform Brilliant piece via @powershiftafrica.bsky.social 🔗 www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/g...

🌎⚖️ Historic day for #ClimateJustice The International Court of Justice affirmed in its Advisory Opinion that #ClimateAction isn’t a policy choice: it’s a legal duty under international law. States must cut emissions, adapt, cooperate, uphold #HumanRights, & remedy harm. No more excuses. 🧵⬇️

Israel blocking aid from Gaza is creating ‘chaos and death’, say humanitarian groups

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice. 🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability 📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇 #ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

Alex de Waal has worked on humanitarian causes across the globe for over 40 years. “There is no case, over those four decades, of such minutely engineered, closely monitored, precisely designed mass starvation of a population as is happening in Gaza today.”

'there are opportunities for follow-up that must be seized upon to advance the agenda of international financial architecture reform in the coming years. Notable among these is the call on the #IMF to design a #SDRs playbook' @eurodadnews.bsky.social colleagues reflect on #FfD4 & 'systemic issues'👇

I couldn't help myself (h/t @lucyvonsturmer.bsky.social!)

Newspapers need to be leading with the headline "Senior Reform party figure claims climate change is a hoax", alongside wildfire and flood imagery.

“I won on groceries. Very simple word, groceries. Like almost, you know, who uses the word. I started using the word. The groceries.” 🤡 - 12/8/24 apnews.com/article/beef...

US DOT announces it is planning to take back $4 billion in federal dollars that were awarded to the California High-Speed Rail project. Expect lawsuits.

In crucial #JubileeYear calls at #FfD4 for UN-led debt workout mechanism watered down, as WorldBank and IMFNews’ rich shareholders refused to loosen their grip on the international financial architecture Read our #ObserverSummer25 cover👇 tinyurl.com/JubileeCampa... #FfD4Sevilla

CIEL analysis finds the UK govt's carbon capture plans are "a bottomless pit for public money".

Ghana was among first Cs in Sub-Saharan Africa to pursue #WorldBank energy reform model, based on liberalisation and #PPPs... If this model is more 'efficient', the evidence is very well-hidden: www.brettonwoodsproject.org/2025/07/ghan... w/ @somoamsterdam.bsky.social @danielagabor.bsky.social

Our new #ObserverSummer25 is out now🚀 This edition covers civil society demands of unconditional debt relief in #Jubilee2025, IMF's upcoming surveillance review, World Bank's billions to trillions 'fantasy', Sri Lanka, Argentina & the IMF, #FFD4, and more 🔥👇 tinyurl.com/ObserverSumm...

2125: Brontë country is a wilderness of mesquite, cactus and tumbleweed, with average daily temperatures of 40 degrees. “But at least we stopped the wind turbines”.

20+ years after Monterrey Consensus, we are still living in an international monetary ‘non-system’ where developing Cs must self-insure against shocks #SDRsPlaybook agreed at #FfD4 must change this! @ceprdc.bsky.social @latindadd.bsky.social @aausa.bsky.social www.actionaidusa.org/insight/ffd4...

20+ years after Monterrey Consensus, we are still living in an international monetary ‘non-system’ where developing Cs must self-insure against shocks #SDRsPlaybook agreed at #FfD4 must change this! @ceprdc.bsky.social @latindadd.bsky.social @aausa.bsky.social www.actionaidusa.org/insight/ffd4...

🚨 My next book, EXTRACTION: THE FRONTIERS OF GREEN CAPITALISM is out 9/23 with @wwnorton.com Today and tomorrow, you can pre-order it at 25% off 😊 Use code PREORDER25 at www.barnesandnoble.com/w/extraction...

As children are swept away in flash floods supercharged by climate change resulting from fossil fuel use, Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ is Loaded with Oil and Gas Company Gifts.

Global North have failed to deliver the reforms & actions required to make #SDRs more fit for purpose for the Global South, argue @jonsward.bsky.social & Niranjali Amerasinghe of @aausa.bsky.social #FfD4 must mark the start of a new chapter #SDRsPlaybook www.actionaidusa.org/insight/ffd4...

Buckle up for even higher prices for your morning coffee. Coffee futures surge on news of potential 50% US tariff on Brazil on top of the US tariff on Vietnam of 20% - putting more fuel on the fire of financial speculation in coffee and pushing up prices. www.ft.com/content/67de...

MEDIA STUDIES: How the Times bungled its coverage of the OBR report on climate change & UK govt debt Yesterday's newspaper reported a major shift: "The OBR now thinks…net-zero will have a far more damaging impact on borrowing…" In fact, the OBR had said the opposite! 1/6

Our NEW report with @greenpeaceusa.bsky.social + @earthworks.bsky.social finds that further investments in exports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) are incompatible with a liveable climate. Learn more: www.greenpeace.org/usa/failing-the-climate-test/

I talked to @ninalakhani.bsky.social about some issues related to the Texas flood response and about how this is what disasters are going to look like in a world where climate action is banned and our emergency management system is dismantled. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Our latest study reveals how the World Bank is using its Development Policy Finance (DPF) instrument to push energy sector reforms that promote a private-led energy transition – while counting these policy changes as ‘climate finance’. 🔗 tinyurl.com/ClimateFinan...

"But while hawks frame BRICS as trying to overthrow global order, this year's summit is in many ways a strong defense of multilateralism. In the communique, there's strong commitment to the WTO, UNFCCC/Paris Agreement, IMF,UN" Thread www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri... bsky.app/profile/timh...

This Day in Labor History: July 7, 1903. Mary “Mother” Jones launched the Children’s Crusade in support of a Philadelphia textile strike and to raise awareness about the need to end child labor!!!! They wanted to meet Theodore Roosevelt, but of course the cowardly president chickened out!

Great piece by @ifresnillo.bsky.social from @eurodadnews.bsky.social on #FfD4 debt outcome 👇 www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/who...

On the last day of #Ffd4, #CivilSociety have a message for Delegates.. 📢🪧 The job is not yet done. The fight for #EconomicJustice continues! #EraOfJustice #FfD4People #SystemChangeNow