Daphne Wysham
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Daphne Wysham is the founder and coordinator of SEEN and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, D.C. This modified excerpt is taken from the report "A Wrong-Turn from Rio: The World Bank's Road to Climate Catastrophe" [PDF], coauthored with Jim Vallette and Nadia Martinez.
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Emission Creep
Critics question World Bank's role as carbon trader, fossil-fuel funder 0
Posted 4 years, 8 months ago
For as long as it's been around, the World Bank has been prone to mission creep. Established 60 years ago to rebuild war-torn Europe, it morphed into an institution whose raison d'etre was to help developing countries advance, then refined its focus on poverty alleviation and sustainable development in the 1980s and '90s. During that time, it took on the role of effectively creating international environmental and social rules for development finance. Now the bank has recast itself to pursue a mission some call its creepiest yet.
Nearly a decade ago, the institution began… Read More