Notes from the virtual Civil Society Policy Forum event on 30 March.
Climate change
Land
Analysis
The World Bank’s investments in the Great Green Wall: A desert mirage?
World Bank commits to invest additional $5 billion in the Great Green Wall over the next five years, despite shortcomings in its existing investments in the initiative highlighted by IEG.
Infrastructure
News
World Bank technical assistance and policy lending lead to Jamaica gas lock-in
Bank support facilitated $1 billion in private investment in LNG on the island, despite the green credentials of natural gas being widely debunked.
Environment
Background
Climate change and the Covid-19 recovery – the role of the IMF in building back better
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum session on 28 September.
Environment
News
IFC’s first Green Equity Approach client backs Indonesian coal plant expansion
CSOs call for IFC to close remaining loopholes in Green Equity Approach, after equity client chosen to pilot the initiative makes investment in coal plant expansion in Indonesia.
Finance
Analysis
Fracking’s false hope: Why fossil fuels won’t help to repay Argentina’s national debt
Argentina’s strategy to increase fossil fuel exports to ease debt burden ignores need for increased state investments and climate commitments.
Environment
News
EIB rules out most fossil fuel funding from 2021, setting new benchmark for MDBs
New energy policy sees European Investment Bank end support for unabated coal, oil and gas from 2021.
Environment
News
IMF joins discussion on greening financial sector, as climate risks threaten macro-stability
Fund and central banks increasingly pondering macroeconomic policies to tackle climate risks.
Environment
Background
World Bank Group Paris Alignment: Governance & private sector participation in the energy sector
Notes from a Civil Society Policy Forum event on 16 October.
Environment
Background
The IMF & climate change: Can the Fund help countries avoid a ‘climate Minsky moment’?
Notes from the Civil Society Policy Forum event on 18 October on the role of the IMF in tackling climate risk.
Featured briefings
30 March 2021
World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings 2021
23 March 2021
The Bretton Woods Observer: Spring 2021
23 March 2021
Tip of the iceberg: How the call for SDRs reveals the urgency for deeper reforms of the global reserve system to address systemic inequalities
Renewed calls for a substantial SDR allocation raise urgency of reforming the inequitable global reserve ‘non-system’.