Minutes of a briefing by World Bank staff on the WBG's six strategic themese
Climate change
Environment
News
World Bank climate funds: "a huge leap backwards"
The recently proposed climate investment funds to be administered by the World Bank are under heavy fire for proposing a governance structure that replicates the inequities of the Bank's board and undermines the UN climate framework.
Environment
News
Forest carbon facility: "more harm than good"?
As details emerge of the World Bank's new facility to pay countries for preventing deforestation, concerns about its operations and governance mount.
Environment
News
World Bank strategic review kicked into long grass
Since president Robert Zoellick announced his six "strategic themes" for the Bank at the annual meetings in 2007, Bank watchers have been trying to decipher what this means for a planned strategic review.
Land
News
The Bank, Brazil and biofuels
The World Bank has become a major financial and political supporter of Brazil's campaign for sugar-cane based ethanol and a free market for bio-fuels.
Accountability
News
Parliamentary committee scolds DFID for its World Bank infatuation
The UK's International Development Committee has sharply reprimanded the Department for International Development for its decision to hand over a fifty per cent increase in funding for the World Bank without sufficient analysis of whether or not this is good value for money.
Accountability
Background
BWI-UK / UKAN workshop on World Bank strategic review
Highlights of a 13 February 2008 UK NGO workshop discussing elements of the World Bank's long-term strategic review.
Environment
Background
Highlights of BWI-UK network meeting with Caroline Sergeant, 7 February 2008
Highlights of NGO meeting with alternative executive director to the World Bank, Caroline Sergeant
Environment
Analysis
Is the Bank's carbon markets approach an effective way to address climate change?
The World Bank's involvement in the carbon market is under hot debate: Janet Redman from the Institute for Policy Studies opposes its approach while Jon Sohn, from Climate Change Capital argues that there is a role for the Bank to play.
Rights
Commentary
Whoever loses, the Bank always wins
The World Bank developed its campaign to 'combat' climate change through curbing carbon emissions from deforestation in tropical countries, but nobody noticed that the Bank, through its lending and development policies, has been promoting deforestation in tropical countries like Indonesia.
