Analysis of the investment figures from the most recent fiscal year once again cast doubt on whether the World Bank Group is willing to give up its addiction to fossil-fuel projects that spur climate change.
Energy
Environment
News
Pipe dreams shattered in Georgia
The World Bank and others have tried to convince the region's poor that oil pipelines in the Caucuses would bring economic prosperity and strengthen democracy in the region. However, this Caspian oil game is partly to blame for the increased poverty, conflict and misery that now plagues the thousands of citizens displaced in the August conflict in Georgia.
Environment
News
Voluntary transparency not enough in IFI extractive operations
A recent NGO assessment of World Bank and IMF operations in over 55 resource-rich countries finds that the IFIs have lacked consistency in insuring transparency of the revenues generated from extractive industries.
Environment
Background
Highlights: Meeting of UK NGOs with UK Alternate Executive Director to the World Bank
Meeting between UK NGOs and UK Alternate Execituve Director to the World Bank -Caroline Sergeant- on July 22, 2008.
Infrastructure
News
Agribusiness vs. food security
The causes of and remedies for the food crisis are hotly contested; how this rupture in the status quo is resolved will have decisive implications for the roles of the IFIs as well as more broadly for global food security and ecological sustainability.
Environment
News
New African dams to power mining
Two dam projects are being rushed to power the mining booms in Africa.
Accountability
News
Lots of rhetoric, few specifics: DFID defends its policy on the World Bank
The UK's Department for International Development (DFID) has sheepishly defended itself in its government response to the International Development Committee's (IDC) report DFID and the World Bank.
Environment
World Bank and climate change, NGO briefing
Civil society meeting on the latest developments of the World Bank's involvment in climate change and energy.
Environment
Background
Towards a World Bank Group Strategic Framework on Climate Change and Development
Towards a World Bank Group Strategic Framework on Climate Change and Development
Environment
Background
Dialogue with NGOs and Lars Thunell, Executive Vice President and CEO, IFC
Dialogue with NGOs and Lars Thunell, Executive Vice President and CEO, IFC
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