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But What's $41 Billion? World Bank overstates commitment to environment, says internal watchdog		22 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 2:26 PM on 22 Jul 2008 The World Bank overstates its commitment to financing sustainability-minded projects in developing countries and should greatly improve its efforts, according to an internal review. Official estimates hold that the bank put $59 billion into environment-focused projects between 1990 and 2007; while the bank's coding system makes it difficult to figure out specifics, th ...
Topics: business, news, World Bank (all these topics)

Breaking the Bank World Bank should get out of carbon-offset market, says report		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, " ...
Topics: business, carbon offsets, climate, energy, fossil fuels, news, World Bank (all these topics)

Heads You Lose, Tails I Win World Bank has been OKing illegal logging in the Congo, says Greenpeace study		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 ...
Topics: business, Congo, Greenpeace, news, rainforests, World Bank (all these topics)

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