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Forests & Climate Change: How Can Mainstreaming Forests Address Challenges of Climate Change and Development?
Notes from the CSPF on 15 October on the World Bank’s Forest commitments and ways forward to address challenges and weaknesses identified.
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Links between Amazon deforestation and World Bank exposed
IFC equity investment linked to development of key Brazilian transport corridor, leading to accelerated deforestation in the area.
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CSOs call on World Bank to prioritise forests in climate action
Civil society organisations call on World Bank Group to do more to prioritise forests and forest peoples’ rights.
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Inspection Panel finds World Bank did not apply safeguards on Kenya forest project
The World Bank board has approved the action plan in response to the Inspection Panel report on the Kenya Sengwer case. The Sengwer indigenous community welcomed the action plan but demanded recognition of their status as “custodians” of the Embobut forest.
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World Bank forests projects under fire
World Bank continues to strongly back REDD+ forest projects, which have been criticised for not consulting indigenous peoples or respecting land rights.
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Forest Investment Program (FIP)
Chapter of CIFs Monitor 8 on the Forest Investment Program (FIP)
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World Bank ignores IEG on logging
The World Bank board’s Committee on Development Effectiveness responded in early February to a December evaluation of its forest strategy by the Bank’s Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), by accepting some recommendations but “disagree[ing] with the IEG’s recommendation regarding timber concession reform in tropical moist forest countries.”
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Nature on the market?
The Bank will showcase new initiatives on oceans and the valuation of ecosystem services at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Brazil in late June, but is attracting criticism from civil society groups for its approach to ‘green growth’.
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Safeguards and climate finance in Indonesia in the context of REDD+
Notes of meeting, Washington DC, September 23, 2011
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IFC investment linked to forest loss
A group of researchers from the American Sociological Association have completed the first cross-national study that examines the impact of International Finance Corporation (IFC) lending on forest loss.
