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Who's cashing in on the high price of food?
With food riots raging, let's open the books on the finances of Big Ag |
Anna Lappe |
18 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, business, food, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Breaking the Bank
World Bank should get out of carbon-offset market, says report |
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11 Apr 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:48 PM on 11 Apr 2008 Carbon-offset dealings by the World Bank have been criticized (and not for the first time) in a report released Thursday by the Institute for Policy Studies. In the past two years, the report charges, the bank has loaned $1.5 billion to fossil-fuel companies to make minor greenhouse-gas reductions. It then sells carbon credits for those reductions, says coauthor Daphne Wysham, " ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, energy, fossil fuels, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Is the World Bank coal-fused?
Coal still has no place in clean development |
Joseph Romm |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: climate, coal, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, India, insanity, politics, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Question
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David Roberts |
08 Apr 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: coal, energy, India, World Bank (all these topics) |
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World's dumbest project: Tata Ultra Mega
How a twisted definition is setting up a monumental folly in India |
Ted Nace |
20 Mar 2008 |
Gristmill |
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| Topics: World Bank, energy, coal, India (all these topics) |
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Gaffe All the Way to the Bank
World Bank encourages destructive logging in the Congo, says report |
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05 Oct 2007 |
News |
| Posted at 4:21 PM on 05 Oct 2007 The World Bank's encouragement of industrial forestry as a means of economic recovery in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is counter to the organization's legal commitment to protecting the environment, according to a new report. An independent inspection panel charges that the bank overestimated possible export revenue from forestry, leading to a logging scramb ... |
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| Topics: Congo, logging, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Putting the Yeehaw in Hubris
U.S. federal agencies, World Bank help developing countries emit more |
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14 Aug 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Putting the Yeehaw in Hubris U.S. federal agencies, World Bank help developing countries emit more President Bush has made clear his feelings on global-warming mitigation: "We all can make major strides, and yet there won't be a reduction until China and India are participants." So it seems a wee bit hypocritical that the United States is actually contributing to globa ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, United States, World Bank (all these topics) |
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He Also Tried 'Climate Fun Time Happypants'
Wolfowitz deputy allegedly tried to weaken climate-change message |
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26 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| He Also Tried "Climate Fun Time Happypants" Wolfowitz deputy allegedly tried to weaken climate-change message The brouhaha over World Bank head Paul Wolfowitz giving financial favors to his lady friend is spreading into a look at whether he's been pushing the Bush administration agenda on family planning and climate change. The bank's chief scientist, Robert Watson, says Wolfowitz deputy Juan José Daboub t ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, shenanigans, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Heads You Lose, Tails I Win
World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study |
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12 Apr 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Heads You Lose, Tails I Win World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study You've probably developed an immunity to scandal and outrage, but we'll keep plying you with it anyway: a two-year study by Greenpeace International has found that in the past three years, Congolese village chiefs have handed over vast expanses of the world's second-largest rainforest to Eu ... |
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| Topics: business, Congo, Greenpeace, news, rainforests, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Pretty in Sink
Carbon trading market could help save rainforests |
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24 Oct 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Pretty in Sink Carbon trading market could help save rainforests Rainforests are worth far more intact, acting as carbon sinks, than if they're cleared for farmland or pasture, the World Bank said yesterday, and therefore countries should be compensated for keeping trees standing. Enter: the global carbon market, where polluters must pay to offset excessive carbon dioxide emissions. The World Bank's Kenneth Chomitz ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, rainforests, World Bank (all these topics) |
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The World Bunk
World Bank report urges cleantech boost in developing countries |
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24 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| The World Bunk World Bank report urges cleantech boost in developing countries The World Bank is turning its attention to helping developing countries meet their growing energy needs without, you know, frying the globe. At the request of the G8 nations, the World Bank produced a report on the subject, released at this weekend's meeting with the International Monetary Fund. (The G8, IMF, and World Bank ... it's the New Wo ... |
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| Topics: news, renewable energy, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Aral Be There
Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage |
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07 Apr 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Aral Be There Aral Sea coming back to life after decades of draining damage The dramatic diminution and pollution of Central Asia's Aral Sea is one of the 20th century's most stunning eco-disasters -- but its restoration may become an eco-miracle of the 21st. Since the World Bank's $85.8 million Kok-Aral Dam project began in 2001, the Aral has regained millions of cubic feet of water. Long-abandoned v ... |
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| Topics: Aral Sea, environmental restoration, news, World Bank (all these topics) |
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We Mar the World
World Bank study says pollution, climate change hurt millions |
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06 Oct 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| We Mar the World World Bank study says pollution, climate change hurt millions The World Bank is not the first institution that comes to mind when you're looking for hard-hitting environmental analysis. But a new report from the powerful development agency asserts that while alcohol, tobacco, and unsafe sex are still the most common threats to human health in developing nations, millions of deaths and a full ... |
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| Topics: climate, news, pollution and waste, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Oil and World Bank Shouldn't Mix
Report Recommends That World Bank Stop Backing Oil, Coal Projects |
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11 Dec 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Oil and World Bank Shouldn't Mix Report Recommends That World Bank Stop Backing Oil, Coal Projects The World Bank should phase out all investments in oil and coal projects by 2008 because the environmental risks are too high, an independent report has recommended. Now, the bank must figure out how to respond to the Extractive Industry Review, which it commissioned in 2001 following criticism about the bank's backing of natural- ... |
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| Topics: climate, energy, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Camarooned
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18 Jun 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Camarooned By the end of this year, hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil will flow through pipelines in Chad and Cameroon, bringing about $2.5 billion and $500 million to the two countries, respectively. But critics say those profits won't help the region's poorest and neediest, even though the project's major players -- an ExxonMobil-led oi ... |
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| Topics: business, Cameroon, Chad, commercial and industry organizations, United States, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Breaking the Bank
The economic heresy of Herman Daly |
Lissa Harris |
10 Apr 2003 |
Main Dish |
| If economics is a religion, the World Bank is perhaps its grandest church. For the last half century, the venerable institution at 1818 H Street in Washington, D.C., has been dispatching its missionaries around the globe, spreading the theology of the free market to the heathens. And if economics is a religion, Herman Daly is its arch-heretic, a member of the high priesthood turned renegade. From 1988 to 1994, Da ... |
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| Topics: business, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Where Did All the Protesters Go?
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30 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Hey, Hey, Ho, Ho, Where Did All the Protesters Go? Nearly three years after some 20,000 anti-globalization demonstrators all but shut down the city of Seattle, a fraction of that crowd showed up to protest this weekend's meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, D.C. The disappointing turnout (police, of whom there were plenty, placed the numbers at between 3,000 and 5,000) was widel ... |
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| Topics: globalization, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics) |
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My Dear Watson
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03 Apr 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| My Dear Watson Responding to pressure from the energy industry, the Bush administration is seeking to remove the U.S scientist who heads the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Robert Watson, chief scientist at the World Bank, has been the unpaid chair of the IPCC for nearly six years. In that capacity, he has been outspoken in his belief that human activity is contributing to global warming and must be altered to aver ... |
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| Topics: climate, politics, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back
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05 Dec 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Tree? No Thanks, I'm Trying to Cut Back Indonesia said this week that it would tighten its forestry laws to rein in illegal logging. Under the new rules, companies will lose their licenses to log in 2003 unless they can prove they are managing forests sustainably. Enviros cheered the change, though it remains to be seen just how the theory will tr ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, Indonesia, international government agencies, logging, rainforests, wilderness, World Bank (all these topics) |
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I-M-Furious
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17 Apr 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| I-M-Furious Thousands of enviros and other demonstrators hit the streets of Washington, D.C., this weekend to protest corporate globalization, hoping to build on the momentum of last year's demonstrations in Seattle against the World Trade Organization. They have been thwarted in their efforts to shut down meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank by police in full r ... |
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| Topics: fossil fuels, grassroots activism, politics, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Fire on the Mountain
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Ben White |
13 Apr 2000 |
Muckraker |
| Enviros in Washington are apoplectic over what they fear will be a pre-Earth Day cave-in by the Clinton administration over mountaintop-removal mining in West Virginia. This used to be a mountain. Photo: David Miller, www.mountaintopmining.org. Readers may recall this battle from last year's appropriations season, when powerful Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) introduced a rider that would have bypassed a federal judge's ruling against the destructive mini ... |
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| Topics: ... energy, Greenpeace, Idaho, Montana, Muckraker, Nevada, politics, Utah, Washington DC, West Virginia, World Bank, Wyoming (all these topics) |
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Magnificent, Seven!
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11 Apr 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Magnificent, Seven! Enviros and other activists yesterday kicked off more than a week of protests against corporate globalization in Washington, D.C., with the goal of disrupting meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund this Sunday and Monday. Seven protestors were arrested yesterday, including Brent Blackwelder, president of Friends of the Earth, and John Pass ... |
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| Topics: Bill McKibben, fossil fuels, grassroots activism, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics) |
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Action Figures
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06 Mar 2000 |
Daily Grist |
| Action Figures In the wake of the World Trade Organization protest in Seattle last year, environmentalists are strengthening alliances with other progressive movements and helping to plan a series of demonstrations to keep the momentum going. Big protests are planned for April 16 in Washington, D.C., where the World Bank and International Monetary Fund will be holding annual meetings, and for the Democratic N ... |
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| Topics: grassroots activism, Washington DC, World Bank (all these topics) |
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