Environment

Environment

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Board accepts management response to report on oil and mining

The management response to the Extractive Industries Review (EIR) - described by development and environment campaigners as "completely inadequate" - was accepted by the board of the World Bank at the beginning of August. The management response rejected calls in the review for a phase-out of support for oil and coal, made merely symbolic gestures towards increasing support for renewables, and watered down language on the rights of indigenous peoples to oversee extractive developments on their l

21 September 2004

Environment

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Two decades of environmental and social protection policies at risk

Bank watchers fear that a new plan to harmonise Bank environmental and social safeguard policies with national rules will sacrifice years of hard-won policy provisions "in one big sweep".

21 September 2004

Rights

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Bank board accepts status quo in oil and gas

The management response to the Extractive Industries Review (EIR) - described by development and environment…

4 August 2004

Environment

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Georgia puts BP pipeline project on hold

The Georgian government has put a two week halt on BP's controversial Caspian oil pipeline project citing a breach of the environmental permit and other security concerns

28 July 2004

Environment

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Environment safeguards bypassed in Poland

A group of NGOs has called for a halt to Bank support for a highway modernisation project which threatens serious environmental impacts.

27 July 2004

Rights

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Guatemalan gold project gets financing

Campaigners worry that community rights will be disregarded by a Guatemalan gold mine backed by the IFC.

27 July 2004

Environment

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Wolfensohn meets with Congolese groups

A videoconference was held in July to bring together Congolese organisations, international forest activists and Bank President James Wolfensohn to discuss a Bank-supported forest zoning plan for the Democratic Republic of Congo.

26 July 2004

Infrastructure

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Bank response to oil, gas and mining review “completely inadequate”

The Bank management response to the recommendations of the Extractive Industries Review was released 18 June to widespread criticism.

26 July 2004

Environment

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Baku Ceyhan human rights activist arrested

Activist Ferhat Kaya was arrested by the Turkish authorities in early May following his work…

28 May 2004

Rights

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Concerns about Brazil soya project

Brazilian NGOs challenge proposed World Bank Group support for soya farming in the Amazon region.

28 May 2004