Daniel Willis
@djw14.bsky.social
Climate justice and human rights campaigner with @re-course.org, holding DFIs accountable for their actions. PhD in History + Latin American Studies. In my Leeds era.
An excellent and insightful report by my colleague Marj Pamintuan 👇
World Bank Group guarantees — not as "green" as they seem?⚠️
New research shows how MIGA guarantees are boosting big banks’ ability to invest in fossil fuels, including
🇲🇿 🇨🇦🇻🇳 LNG in Mozambique, Canada, Vietnam
🇦🇷 Oil & gas in Argentina
Find out more: bit.ly/MIGA25
#FfD4People #FfD4 #WorldBank
New research shows how MIGA guarantees are boosting big banks’ ability to invest in fossil fuels, including
🇲🇿 🇨🇦🇻🇳 LNG in Mozambique, Canada, Vietnam
🇦🇷 Oil & gas in Argentina
Find out more: bit.ly/MIGA25
#FfD4People #FfD4 #WorldBank
July 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
An excellent and insightful report by my colleague Marj Pamintuan 👇
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A new "Tropical Forest Forever Facility" is expected to launch at #COP30.
But can the #TFFF really protect forests & the rights of those who call them home?
40+ orgs sent these concerns👉 rainforestfoundationuk.org/a-new-multi-billion-dollar-fund-could-be-a-lifeline-for-the-worlds-besieged-forests/
But can the #TFFF really protect forests & the rights of those who call them home?
40+ orgs sent these concerns👉 rainforestfoundationuk.org/a-new-multi-billion-dollar-fund-could-be-a-lifeline-for-the-worlds-besieged-forests/
A new multi-billion dollar fund could be a lifeline for the world’s besieged forests. But it will only succeed if concerns surrounding it are addressed. - Rainforest Foundation UK
In 2024, the world lost almost 6.7 million hectares of tropical primary forest: the fastest rate ever recorded. The world’s forests are still falling prey to mining, logging and agriculture, but as th...
rainforestfoundationuk.org
June 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
A new "Tropical Forest Forever Facility" is expected to launch at #COP30.
But can the #TFFF really protect forests & the rights of those who call them home?
40+ orgs sent these concerns👉 rainforestfoundationuk.org/a-new-multi-billion-dollar-fund-could-be-a-lifeline-for-the-worlds-besieged-forests/
But can the #TFFF really protect forests & the rights of those who call them home?
40+ orgs sent these concerns👉 rainforestfoundationuk.org/a-new-multi-billion-dollar-fund-could-be-a-lifeline-for-the-worlds-besieged-forests/
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Annual Report drop!
In 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣, we worked with partners and coalitions around the world to advocate for stronger accountability mechanisms, call for better climate finance, and influence international financial institutions.
Read about all this and more in our Annual Report 👉 bit.ly/A-R-2024
In 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣, we worked with partners and coalitions around the world to advocate for stronger accountability mechanisms, call for better climate finance, and influence international financial institutions.
Read about all this and more in our Annual Report 👉 bit.ly/A-R-2024
May 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Annual Report drop!
In 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣, we worked with partners and coalitions around the world to advocate for stronger accountability mechanisms, call for better climate finance, and influence international financial institutions.
Read about all this and more in our Annual Report 👉 bit.ly/A-R-2024
In 2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣, we worked with partners and coalitions around the world to advocate for stronger accountability mechanisms, call for better climate finance, and influence international financial institutions.
Read about all this and more in our Annual Report 👉 bit.ly/A-R-2024
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Why is our aid money *still* invested in fossil fuel assets? No wonder the government is trying to keep this secret.
As I argue here, this is trapping poorer countries into a type of energy which is on its way out, all the while profiting fossil fuel companies.
As I argue here, this is trapping poorer countries into a type of energy which is on its way out, all the while profiting fossil fuel companies.
NEW – Revealed: UK development body still has $700m invested overseas in fossil-fuel assets | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from @nataliejones.bsky.social @nickdearden.bsky.social
Read here buff.ly/4OOzhf1
Read here buff.ly/4OOzhf1
May 16, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Why is our aid money *still* invested in fossil fuel assets? No wonder the government is trying to keep this secret.
As I argue here, this is trapping poorer countries into a type of energy which is on its way out, all the while profiting fossil fuel companies.
As I argue here, this is trapping poorer countries into a type of energy which is on its way out, all the while profiting fossil fuel companies.
"Willis tells Carbon Brief that these investments and the continued payments from existing commitments “clearly go against the spirit of the UK government’s fossil fuel policy”."
Very pleased to speak to @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social about this fantastic investigation into BII's fossil fuel assets 👇
Very pleased to speak to @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social about this fantastic investigation into BII's fossil fuel assets 👇
NEW – Revealed: UK development body still has $700m invested overseas in fossil-fuel assets | @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social w/ comment from @nataliejones.bsky.social @nickdearden.bsky.social
Read here buff.ly/4OOzhf1
Read here buff.ly/4OOzhf1
May 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"Willis tells Carbon Brief that these investments and the continued payments from existing commitments “clearly go against the spirit of the UK government’s fossil fuel policy”."
Very pleased to speak to @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social about this fantastic investigation into BII's fossil fuel assets 👇
Very pleased to speak to @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social about this fantastic investigation into BII's fossil fuel assets 👇
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⭐ Join our remote team ⭐
We are hiring a Campaign Manager to focus on sustainable renewables in the just energy transition.
It's an exciting & challenging role involving research, advocacy, teamwork, and collaboration with partners around the world.
Details👉 re-course.org/jobs-at-reco... #NGOjobs
We are hiring a Campaign Manager to focus on sustainable renewables in the just energy transition.
It's an exciting & challenging role involving research, advocacy, teamwork, and collaboration with partners around the world.
Details👉 re-course.org/jobs-at-reco... #NGOjobs
May 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
⭐ Join our remote team ⭐
We are hiring a Campaign Manager to focus on sustainable renewables in the just energy transition.
It's an exciting & challenging role involving research, advocacy, teamwork, and collaboration with partners around the world.
Details👉 re-course.org/jobs-at-reco... #NGOjobs
We are hiring a Campaign Manager to focus on sustainable renewables in the just energy transition.
It's an exciting & challenging role involving research, advocacy, teamwork, and collaboration with partners around the world.
Details👉 re-course.org/jobs-at-reco... #NGOjobs
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Despite the Asian Development Bank's commitment global climate goals, its technical assistance is still supporting #FossilGas — a highly polluting fossil fuel that is risky for economies, communities and the environment.
📽️ Rajneesh Bhuee #ADBAnnualMeeting @adb.org
📃Read the briefing bit.ly/ADB-TA25
📽️ Rajneesh Bhuee #ADBAnnualMeeting @adb.org
📃Read the briefing bit.ly/ADB-TA25
May 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Despite the Asian Development Bank's commitment global climate goals, its technical assistance is still supporting #FossilGas — a highly polluting fossil fuel that is risky for economies, communities and the environment.
📽️ Rajneesh Bhuee #ADBAnnualMeeting @adb.org
📃Read the briefing bit.ly/ADB-TA25
📽️ Rajneesh Bhuee #ADBAnnualMeeting @adb.org
📃Read the briefing bit.ly/ADB-TA25
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Technical assistance: A small share of Asian Development Bank financing, but a huge influence on economic policies and energy pathways in developing countries
It's time the @adb.org excluded #FossilGas from all forms of financing
Read the briefing 📑 bit.ly/ADB-TA25 #ADBNews
More 🧵
It's time the @adb.org excluded #FossilGas from all forms of financing
Read the briefing 📑 bit.ly/ADB-TA25 #ADBNews
More 🧵
May 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Technical assistance: A small share of Asian Development Bank financing, but a huge influence on economic policies and energy pathways in developing countries
It's time the @adb.org excluded #FossilGas from all forms of financing
Read the briefing 📑 bit.ly/ADB-TA25 #ADBNews
More 🧵
It's time the @adb.org excluded #FossilGas from all forms of financing
Read the briefing 📑 bit.ly/ADB-TA25 #ADBNews
More 🧵
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The Asian Development Bank has committed substantial funding to renewables 💰, but much of this is high-risk or unclear projects, and may prolong fossil fuel reliance ⚠️
A new assessment of the bank's progress on the just energy transition is available now: bit.ly/BoR-25
#ADBNews
More in thread 🧵
A new assessment of the bank's progress on the just energy transition is available now: bit.ly/BoR-25
#ADBNews
More in thread 🧵
May 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
The Asian Development Bank has committed substantial funding to renewables 💰, but much of this is high-risk or unclear projects, and may prolong fossil fuel reliance ⚠️
A new assessment of the bank's progress on the just energy transition is available now: bit.ly/BoR-25
#ADBNews
More in thread 🧵
A new assessment of the bank's progress on the just energy transition is available now: bit.ly/BoR-25
#ADBNews
More in thread 🧵
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"Cruelty is the central tenet of right wing ideology. It is at the heart of everything they do. They are now quite willing to lose money or their lives in order to make the world a crueller place, and AI is a part of this"
newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.
newsocialist.org.uk
March 27, 2025 at 5:38 PM
"Cruelty is the central tenet of right wing ideology. It is at the heart of everything they do. They are now quite willing to lose money or their lives in order to make the world a crueller place, and AI is a part of this"
newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
newsocialist.org.uk/transmission...
💰 A new review of @ifcorg.bsky.social's Sustainability Framework can help make trillions of $ of finance more responsible.
📖 @kategeary.bsky.social and I wrote for @devex.com on why IFC must use this opportunity to introduce a new safeguard on financial intermediary lending 👇
tinyurl.com/aw4h3dx3
📖 @kategeary.bsky.social and I wrote for @devex.com on why IFC must use this opportunity to introduce a new safeguard on financial intermediary lending 👇
tinyurl.com/aw4h3dx3
Opinion: IFC standards review is chance for more responsible global finance
A review of the International Finance Corporation’s sustainability standards offers a chance to improve trillions in development funding, making global finance more socially and environmentally respon...
tinyurl.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
💰 A new review of @ifcorg.bsky.social's Sustainability Framework can help make trillions of $ of finance more responsible.
📖 @kategeary.bsky.social and I wrote for @devex.com on why IFC must use this opportunity to introduce a new safeguard on financial intermediary lending 👇
tinyurl.com/aw4h3dx3
📖 @kategeary.bsky.social and I wrote for @devex.com on why IFC must use this opportunity to introduce a new safeguard on financial intermediary lending 👇
tinyurl.com/aw4h3dx3
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The IFC is reviewing its Sustainability Framework, a move that could impact $4.5 trillion in financial flows. Kate Geary and @djw14.bsky.social from @re-course.org argue the review could help ensure investments are more environmentally and socially responsible.
#finance #investment #opinion
#finance #investment #opinion
Opinion: IFC standards review is chance for more responsible global finance
A review of the International Finance Corporation’s sustainability standards offers a chance to improve trillions in development funding, making global finance more socially and environmentally respon...
www.devex.com
March 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The IFC is reviewing its Sustainability Framework, a move that could impact $4.5 trillion in financial flows. Kate Geary and @djw14.bsky.social from @re-course.org argue the review could help ensure investments are more environmentally and socially responsible.
#finance #investment #opinion
#finance #investment #opinion
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Today, civil society groups will meet with the Asian Development Bank to discuss critical minerals for the #EnergyTransition
These minerals (eg lithium, nickel, bauxite) are vital components of clean energy technologies. But how they are mined, and who benefits, matters.
#JustMinerals 💎🧵
These minerals (eg lithium, nickel, bauxite) are vital components of clean energy technologies. But how they are mined, and who benefits, matters.
#JustMinerals 💎🧵
February 13, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Today, civil society groups will meet with the Asian Development Bank to discuss critical minerals for the #EnergyTransition
These minerals (eg lithium, nickel, bauxite) are vital components of clean energy technologies. But how they are mined, and who benefits, matters.
#JustMinerals 💎🧵
These minerals (eg lithium, nickel, bauxite) are vital components of clean energy technologies. But how they are mined, and who benefits, matters.
#JustMinerals 💎🧵
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The brilliant Anna Marriott on the scandal of aid money (including British aid) being used to support profiteering private hospitals which leaves patients untreated, imprisoned and indebted. This must end!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vLSC...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vLSC...
The Hospitals That Won't Let Patients Go Home
YouTube video by Bloomberg Originals
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February 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The brilliant Anna Marriott on the scandal of aid money (including British aid) being used to support profiteering private hospitals which leaves patients untreated, imprisoned and indebted. This must end!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vLSC...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vLSC...
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“Astonishing and, frankly terrifying” - hottest Jan on record shocks scientist as emerging La Niña fails to dampen record temperature on.ft.com/3WQI51X with @janatausch.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
“Astonishing and, frankly terrifying” - hottest Jan on record shocks scientist as emerging La Niña fails to dampen record temperature on.ft.com/3WQI51X with @janatausch.bsky.social
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Thank you @kmilb.bsky.social and Nadia Idle for inviting me onto #ACFM and covering the global south debt crisis. It's the biggest debt crisis in 30 years and the global movement is mobilising for action this year, join us to win debt justice @debtjustice.bsky.social: www.debtjustice.org.uk/2025
February 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Thank you @kmilb.bsky.social and Nadia Idle for inviting me onto #ACFM and covering the global south debt crisis. It's the biggest debt crisis in 30 years and the global movement is mobilising for action this year, join us to win debt justice @debtjustice.bsky.social: www.debtjustice.org.uk/2025
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The World Bank’s IFC has submitted its response to an investigation that found evidence of grave human rights violations at the Salala Rubber Corporation that it funds in Liberia, reports @mongabay.bsky.social: news.mongabay.com/2025/02/no-j... #Socfin #Bolloré
February 5, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The World Bank’s IFC has submitted its response to an investigation that found evidence of grave human rights violations at the Salala Rubber Corporation that it funds in Liberia, reports @mongabay.bsky.social: news.mongabay.com/2025/02/no-j... #Socfin #Bolloré
Shocking vandalism. Incredibly worrying for what the next four years will look like for multilateralism.
BREAKING: All USAID staff cut from agency, marking the end of the world’s largest donor. It’s the final gutting of an agency that two weeks ago, employed more than 10,000 people across the world. www.devex.com/news/all-usa...
All USAID staff cut from agency, marking end of world’s largest donor
It’s the final gutting of an agency that two weeks ago, employed more than 10,000 people across the world.
www.devex.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Shocking vandalism. Incredibly worrying for what the next four years will look like for multilateralism.
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Corporations say they care about climate but are using loopholes to conduct business as usual. The latest loophole: sustainability-linked loans.
$286 BILLION of these loans were given to polluting industries, like fossil fuels, mining, and agriculture.
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
$286 BILLION of these loans were given to polluting industries, like fossil fuels, mining, and agriculture.
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
How mega-polluters take advantage of billions in green loans
Banks poured $286 billion into corporations linked to deforestation and polluting industries like fossil fuels and mining through a lax type of green finance called sustainability-linked loans.
www.theexamination.org
February 4, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Corporations say they care about climate but are using loopholes to conduct business as usual. The latest loophole: sustainability-linked loans.
$286 BILLION of these loans were given to polluting industries, like fossil fuels, mining, and agriculture.
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
$286 BILLION of these loans were given to polluting industries, like fossil fuels, mining, and agriculture.
www.theexamination.org/articles/how...
🚨 Our latest research from @re-course.org on how IFC is financing environmental and social harms in Vietnam 👇
#StopFundingFossils #EndCoalFinance
#StopFundingFossils #EndCoalFinance
🇻🇳 The International Finance Corporation is indirectly facilitating a wave of #coal projects in Vietnam, that will breach the coal capacity limits agreed under the country's just transition deal.
🚨 Yet another case of an IFC financial intermediary supporting new coal.
New research 👉 bit.ly/IFC-coal
🚨 Yet another case of an IFC financial intermediary supporting new coal.
New research 👉 bit.ly/IFC-coal
February 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
🚨 Our latest research from @re-course.org on how IFC is financing environmental and social harms in Vietnam 👇
#StopFundingFossils #EndCoalFinance
#StopFundingFossils #EndCoalFinance
💰 A classic example of the problem with financial intermediary lending, which hands power over development to profit-driven private banks.
Proud of Recourse's work to stand in solidarity with affected communities in the Philippines, to stop IFC sweeping this historic case under the carpet 👇
Proud of Recourse's work to stand in solidarity with affected communities in the Philippines, to stop IFC sweeping this historic case under the carpet 👇
🇵🇭 The World Bank's private sector arm, the IFC, is attempting to bury its own evidence of harms it caused by backing coal in the Philippines via private bank RCBC
Communities + civil organisations are now calling for direct contribution to remedy for communities ✊
tinyurl.com/bxpdzpw7 @devex.com
Communities + civil organisations are now calling for direct contribution to remedy for communities ✊
tinyurl.com/bxpdzpw7 @devex.com
IFC response to problematic Philippine investment lacking, says watchdog
A lack of disclosure and a failure to mitigate the problems communities face from 10 coal power plants backed by RCBC bank are among the key concerns.
tinyurl.com
February 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
💰 A classic example of the problem with financial intermediary lending, which hands power over development to profit-driven private banks.
Proud of Recourse's work to stand in solidarity with affected communities in the Philippines, to stop IFC sweeping this historic case under the carpet 👇
Proud of Recourse's work to stand in solidarity with affected communities in the Philippines, to stop IFC sweeping this historic case under the carpet 👇