World Bank Action Day

World Bank / IMF Annuals in Washington, D.C., 2025

As usual, Directors, Parliamentarians, Lobbyists and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) from all over the world gather in Washington, D.C., in the still sunny mid-October.

And yet, there is nothing usual this year. International CSOs feel that under the Trump administration, Washington is no longer a place where you can walk freely, talk openly, or call to protest. “Shrinking spaces”, right in the US capital.

Therefore, we chose not to throw the usual World Bank Action Day. In past years, we took to the streets on the Friday of the annual meetings, with rallies, speeches and marches. We made sure we were heard in the towering buildings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

So, will everything be silent? No way!

New ideas came up and civil society has a host of actions to put pressure on WB and IMF.

Please join the petition to World Bank and ADB against nuclear finance, watch out for the Digital Day of Action, forward letters from climate groups to governors and executive directors and check for the days of global action Stop the Harm! Cancel the Debt! Also, don’t miss events like the “Indigenous Voices on the Impact of Industrial Animal Agriculture”.

And the big thing: On Saturday, October 18, people across the US are rising up against the Trump administration’s cruelty, corruption, and power grabs. Join them at the #NoKings rally in DC.

What's going on this year?

Hope to see you there!

World Bank Action Days from past years

Protest in front of World Bank building 2025 — Joint Action „Hold the Line on Climate“ with Debt for Climate In front of the World Bank Building April 25, 2025

25 October, 2024: International CSO Groups in front of the White House. Speeches about the use of world bank money to support gas activities and fuel the climate crisis. For more visit our Impressions section.

April 19, 2024: International CSO Groups in front of the International Finance Corporation, IFC - the private sector arm of the World Bank. Speech on the lack of Transparency and Accountability, for which the management is responsible.

Protest at World Bank Meeting in Marrakesh — World Bank Annuals, Marrakech 2023

The Fossil Bank

Since the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Bank has provided at least $14.8 billion to fossil fuel projects. In 2022 alone, an additional $3.7 billion in World Bank trade finance went to oil and gas. The true number is likely much, much higher, considering there are six “Trojan Horses” through which the World Bank continues to smuggle in financing for the fossil fuel industry!

Who Are We?

We are an international coalition of NGOs. The rising temperature of the atmosphere endangers the future of our world. Meanwhile the World Bank, despite the Paris Agreement, still supports the expansion of coal, oil and gas. Through direct and indirect measures, the World Bank creates incentives for many countries to pursue the expansion of fossil energies. Our goal is to get the World Bank and its donors out of all funding for coal, oil and gas NOW.