http://uk.oneworld.net/article/archive/1943 en_GB_uk http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/164015/1/1943 Industrialised countries must give at least 1.5 per cent of their gross domestic product to help developing countries onto a low-carbon economic path, a conference of climate-vulnerable countries agreed today. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85958 After a further multi-billion bail-out this week, the UK government now owns 84% of the failed Royal Bank of Scotland. Surely the High Court's refusal to allow a judicial review of the bank's unfriendly environmental policies should be overturned. Letter to Guardian http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163962/1/1943 Climate change and food security negotiations are stumbling over the reluctance of rich countries to stump up the costs. They have thrown all their resources at a bunch of bankrupt banks. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85826 The International Monetary Fund should withdraw its plan for a multi-million-dollar loan to Angola unless there are "stringent conditions" that require the opening up of the country's oil industry to public scrutiny, an anti-corruption watchdog said ahead of the IMF's annual meeting in Turkey. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163671/1/1943 Big polluting companies in US and Europe are threatening to relocate if the terms of carbon trading schemes meet their disapproval. This is the unacceptable face of corporate blackmail. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85732 Owen Barder takes a close look at the idea of a currency transaction tax. Lord Turner's resurrection of the proposal has stirred up a hornet's nest in the City of London. Owen Abroad http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163211/1/1943 The new sliding roof over the Wimbledon Centre Court represents an extreme and expensive example of adapting to climate uncertainties. Low cost index insurance is a valuable tool for poor farmers but can it work if climate becomes even less predictable? http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162796/1/1943 Governments are responding to public disgust at financial greed by increasing taxes for high earners. But it's a reminder that becoming a little less rich does not address extreme global inequalities. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162557/1/1943 The G20 London summit is unrepresentative of the poorest countries who will be most affected by decisions about the world economy. Here's a selection of what African leaders have to say. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85121 A tough-talking but constructive assessment of the economic crisis facing Africa. Speech by the president of Tanzania at the IMF-Africa High Level meeting in Dar es Salaam. allAfrica.com http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162493/1/1943 Anger is brewing amongst African governments as their economies are undermined by a crisis for which they are not responsible. They lack the monetary tools available to countries attending the G20 London Summit. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85090 A new site which aggregates civil society opinion about the global financial crisis, based on the premise that the political response so far is wholly inadequate. from Bretton Woods Project http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85062 I don't normally look to religious leaders for enlightenment but the Archbishop of Canterbury makes a good fist of interpreting our economic ruins. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162397/1/1943 Our sense of values continues to rotate in the spin-dryer. On the same day that Gandhi's spectacles sell for millions, the Bank of England decides that money is worthless. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85011 If any lesson is to come out of the current financial crisis, it is that the pipedream of corporate social responsibility needs to be shelved, argues Marcin Bondarowicz.