Refers to the Bank's failure to adequately and explicitly address human rights in its policies, as well as the causality between Bank supported extractive projects and the exacerbation of conflict. Looks at case studies from Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala and Chad and Camerooon.
IFC
Environment
News
Climate change and the World Bank: dubious green credentials
Critique of the new role assigned to the World Bank by the G8 in tackling climate change by creating a framework for clean energy and development. Summary of recent documents examining the Bank's perpetuation of fossil-fuelled economic expansion and false claims made in relation to the Clean Development Mechanism
Environment
News
Slow progress on World Bank’s oil, gas and mining commitments
Update on the World Bank Group’s progress on the management response to the Extractive Industries Review. Problems relating to the BTC pipeline on its inauguration. Summary of the book The risks we run, on political risk insurance and the mining industry.
Accountability
News
From bad to worse: IFC safeguards
The serious inadequacies of the IFC's environmental and social safeguards in light of a number of IFC-supported projects
Environment
News
World Bank breaks promises on forests
The Bank has failed to comply with its own operational policy on forests. An inspectional panel request was authorised by the Bank regarding a forest project in Cambodia. NGOs are disappointed at the Bank's draft principles for a code of conduct for mangrove management
Infrastructure
Background
IFC consultation with civil society on the safeguard review
Highlights of the IFC consultation with civil society on its revision of the WBG environmental and social safeguards
Environment
Background
EIR Update: highlights of civil society meeting with World Bank Group
Civil society meeting with the World Bank Group on the Extractive Industries Review update
Accountability
News
IFC oil field in Kazakhstan flouts disclosure, safeguards policies
Summary of environmental health problems and human rights violations related to the Karachaganak oil and gas condensate field
Accountability
News
Further violations at IFC-backed mine
A summary of anti-mining activity in Guatemala and an update on the Marlin mine investigation by the CAO.
Environment
News
IFC safeguard review integrity in question
Summary of concerns on process and substance of the IFC's on-going review of its safeguard policies
IFI governance
Background
The World Bank board of executive directors (archive)
A summary of the structure and workings of the World Bank Group's board of executive directors.
Environment
News
Italian bank dumps troubled World Bank Caspian pipeline
Italian bank pulls out of IFC-backed oil pipeline in the Caspian
