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
Extractives
Environment
News
The G8, the World Bank and climate change
Environmentalists expressed dismay at the G8’s failure to make progress on the issue of climate change. What will be the World Bank’s involvement in the follow-up programme?
Environment
Background
Highlights of meeting between Tom Scholar and UK NGOS
Highlights of meeting between Tom Scholar and UK NGOS
Finance
News
Ecuador stands ground
Ecuador's new president has claimed he will not back down on oil revenues
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.
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
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
Environment
News
Italian bank dumps troubled World Bank Caspian pipeline
Italian bank pulls out of IFC-backed oil pipeline in the Caspian
Rights
News
IFC-backed mine violates Guatemalan law
One person was killed and ten were injured when the Guatemalan police and military took action to disperse protesters blocking a convoy of mining equipment destined for an IFC-funded gold mine.
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IMF surveillance and climate change transition risks
New briefing by ActionAid USA and the Bretton Woods Project highlights research showing that IMF policy advice has undermined a just energy transition since the Paris Agreement was signed.