Environmental groups demanding an end to fossil energy investments

A group of activists with white masks and charcoal-stained today protested to the Ministry of Finance to demand an end to World Bank investments made in renewable energies with the support of the Spanish Government and the end to fossil energy.

Organizations, Ecologists in Action, InspirAction and Friends of the Earth have expressed their displeasure against the Minister of Economy and Finance, Elena Salgado, "for contributing to the financing of fossil fuels in poor countries by 116% over the previous year ".

Under the slogan "World Bank climate criminal, accomplice Spanish government" and a basket full of coal and deposited outside the Ministry, environmentalists have moved to the head of the Environment his concern for the future implementation of the new energy strategy World Bank from 2011 and the ecology.

Financing of fossil energy and the ecology

In a statement read during the ceremony, the group's spokesperson InspirAction, Isabel Ortigosa, explained that the World Bank's energy policy "is to finance private sector projects to large scale fossil fuels, an approach that has clearly failed to to provide energy for impoverished communities. ".

The head of Ecologists in Action Tom Kucharz criticized in recent years, "World Bank financing for coal power plants has increased by 40", to a record 3,300 million euros in 2010.

The ecology and the end to fossil energy

Also, the spokesman for Friends of the Earth, Alejandro González, has warned about the "inconvenience" to stand by while the World Bank borrows the South, making it totally dependent on fossil fuels in coming decades and the fossil energy.

Protests like these will be carried out throughout the day in various parts of the world as Zagreb, Paris, Berlin, Rome, Johannesburg, Washington or London.