In May, over 30 NGOs worldwide issued a letter telling IFIs, bilateral development agencies, and export credit agencies to stop investing in the Ethiopian hydropower project Gilgel Gibe III.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure
News
World Bank clings to fossil fuels, stumbles on clean energy
The World Bank's energy lending suggests that it remains wedded to fossil fuels, as independent evaluators and civil society groups raise serious concerns about its approach to energy efficiency and renewables.
Infrastructure
Analysis
Clean energy targets for the World Bank
This paper questions what the World Bank counts as clean energy and whether it reports on its energy lending in an accountable way. The concerns it highlights demonstrate the need for a far more rigorous and transparent approach, subject to independent monitoring.
Infrastructure
Background
Meeting on the World Bank with DFID
Notes of a meeting between Rachel Turner of DFID and UK NGOs, April 2010
Infrastructure
Background
Launch of Bank Information Center's (BIC's) model energy strategy
Civil society event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 24 April
Accountability
Background
A sustainable World Bank energy strategy: perspectives from various stakeholders
Civil society event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 23 April
Accountability
Background
Evaluation as a critical tool for accountability
Civil society event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 23 April
Infrastructure
Background
Roundtable on post-crisis economic recovery
World Bank event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 22 April
Infrastructure
Background
Governance challenges in financing green and sustainable energy policies
Freidrich-Ebert-Stiftung event at the World Bank spring meetings 2010, 22 April
Infrastructure
Analysis
Fuelling contradictions: the World Bank's energy lending and climate change
The World Bank's energy and infrastructure lending is undermining its credibility as an institution committed to combating the impacts of climate change for the world's poor, and its attempts to play a central role in managing global climate funds.
