Campaign update Spring 2016. on Food Speculation and the Africa Alliance
Join us in fighting for justice for the poor by ensuring big agribusiness corporations do not grab their land and seeds and make them their own through greed and by their international trade deals.
http://www.globaljustice.org.uk/campaigns/food
The above link is where you will get all the information you need to support our campaign
Help Global Justice Merseyside and GJN put pressure on governments and corporations to stop speculating on food.
Go to:
http://action.globaljustice.org.uk/ea-action/action
Sign the campaign petition to strengthen and show solidarity with our neighbours who are in of our support and not our exploitation for greed
CARBON CAPITAL
The UK finance sector is bankrolling climate change. Banks, pension funds and other finance companies are funding dirty energy projects that are destroying people’s lives and pushing the planet to the brink of catastrophe. Yet millions of people have no access to electricity. Across the world, people are resisting dirty fossil fuel projects affecting their communities, and looking for better ways to ensure people have access to energy.
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ministers have links with big finance and big oil? Find out how many executives at UK banks are also working for big oil.
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Food Speculation
Banks, hedge funds and pension funds are betting on food prices in financial markets, causing drastic price swings in staple foods such as wheat, maize and soy.
These markets were originally developed for the benefit of those involved in the production of food, yet over the last 10 years they have changed almost beyond recognition. Deregulation has enabled speculators to dominate, causing drastic spikes and crashes in prices.
The main WDM site has a whole host of resources on our food speculation campaign, including briefings, reports and videos here. To take action visit therealgeorgeosborne site, which is currently hosting a comedy mini-series commissioned by WDM to raise awareness of the issue.
Climate Debt
WDM is campaigning in solidarity with our allies in the global south to ensure the UK fairly pays the compensation it owes for causing climate change, instead of using it to reinforce existing global inequalities, by propping up the World Bank and forcing new loans onto developing countries.
We are calling on development secretary Andrew Mitchell to stop pushing climate loans on developing countries, loans that will only lock countries into new debt and increased poverty. The UK must end its support for the discredited, undemocratic and unaccountable World Bank, and instead support funds through more democratic institutions such as the UN Adaptation Fund. Finally, we are also calling that the UK uses new money, rather than diverting money from the aid budget as they are currently doing.
Again, see the campaign page on the main site for resources, and take action here and here
