Ditch Dirty Development: find out more

All the information you need to get totally up-to-speed on the Ditch Dirty Development campaign.

Campaign policy paper

Fueling the Future: why DFID should ditch dirty development and lead the way to a low carbon future

Download the campaign policy paper.

‘Fueling the Future’ explains how funding fossil fuel extraction contributes to climate change, has a negative impact on development, and undermines attempts to promote renewable energy. The report recommends that the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) should address the current incoherence in its approach to climate change by producing a new energy and climate change strategy.

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• Read this campaign summary

• Read these answers to tricky questions to get your head round some of the more controversial aspects of the campaign.

Useful links

• Department for International Development

• Plan B for a sustainable energy future

• Pumping Poverty: report looking at the role of British overseas development aid in facilitating oil development

• Platform: unravelling the carbon web

• Practical Action (previously Intermediate Technology Development Group — ITDG)

• Oil Change International

• Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (SEEN)

• Friends of the Earth International: hands off oil, mining and gas!

Campaign History

P&P students discuss campaign options at P&P´s G8 Summer Festival 2005.

The People & Planet network chose the issue of investment in fossil fuel projects as the focus for our new climate change campaign. The decision was made at P&P´s G8 Summer Festival in 2005, when students chose this campaign from three options.

At the People & Planet Summer Gathering in 2006, an intense and creative session resulted in the choice of the name: Ditch Dirty Development.