ListenMARK COLVIN: In a big policy shift, the World Bank says it’ll no longer fund coal fired power stations in poor countries.The board of the World Bank has agreed to a new energy strategy which will limit the financing of coal generation except in...
Parke, who takes over the first such portfolio since 1996, is poised to run her non-cabinet office amid much belt-tightening in foreign aid spending in recent years that has led to a two-year delay of the government’s pledge to set aside by 2015 0.5 percent of...
In a small note on the AusAid website, the Commonwealth government has confirmed a $47 million project to restore 25,000 hectares of peatland on the Indonesian island of Kalimantan will end before most of its major milestones are met.The Kalimantan project was first...
MEDIA RELEASE (For immediate release) AidWatch congratulates Prime Minister Rudd on appointment of a Minister for International Development Australian Aid watchdog AID/WATCH today, came out in support of the appointment of a Minister...
Article appeared in Devex By Johanna Morden The bitter power struggle that has gripped Australia’s Labor Party in recent months has ended with a crushing victory for Kevin Rudd, who on Thursday was sworn into his former office as prime minister three years after...
STT, a local NGO, has released a report saying dozens of households relocated from Phnom Penh are much worse off, as a result of a badly designed resettlement process.Around 1,000 households either have been or will be relocated nationwide by the $142 million dollar...
