Potential opportunity to influence the World Bank away from financing factory farms: The UK Parliament is currently holding an open consultation on the future of UK aid and development assistance, closing on November 14, 2025. It includes the question, “Where is reform needed in multilateral agencies and development banks the UK is a member of, and funds?”. This would include the World Bank, which finances factory farms,[1][2] so could this consultation be a way to push it away from doing that, via the UK government?
Are any organisations planning on submitting responses? If so, should there be an effort to co-ordinate more responses on this?
Several people working on climate issues out of World Bank HQ are involved in the local EA community. It may be worth a conversation with them around feasibility and bureaucratic pathways / challenges to shifting strategy on major funding areas. Your second footnote focused on climate impacts, so I assume you’re not opposed to arguments from that perspective.
Potential opportunity to influence the World Bank away from financing factory farms: The UK Parliament is currently holding an open consultation on the future of UK aid and development assistance, closing on November 14, 2025. It includes the question, “Where is reform needed in multilateral agencies and development banks the UK is a member of, and funds?”. This would include the World Bank, which finances factory farms,[1][2] so could this consultation be a way to push it away from doing that, via the UK government?
Are any organisations planning on submitting responses? If so, should there be an effort to co-ordinate more responses on this?
“Why the World Bank Must Stop Funding Factory Farms”, 30 Apr 2024 https://www.worldanimalprotection.us/latest/blogs/why-the-world-bank-must-stop-funding-factory-farms/
“The World Bank has a factory-farm climate problem”, 20 Nov 2024 https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/world-bank-development-banks-factory-farm-climate-industrial-agriculture/
Several people working on climate issues out of World Bank HQ are involved in the local EA community. It may be worth a conversation with them around feasibility and bureaucratic pathways / challenges to shifting strategy on major funding areas. Your second footnote focused on climate impacts, so I assume you’re not opposed to arguments from that perspective.