BRUCE RICH | AUTHOR | ENVIRONMENTAL LAWYER - Tags | expert on public international finance and the environment

Books

Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

Drawing on in depth institutional knowledge, hundreds of case studies, and scores of internal and external reports and evaluations, Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the P...

Are International Carbon Offsets Innately Flawed and Unreformable?

Are International Carbon Offsets Innately Flawed and Unreformable?

A look back at the Clean Development Mechanism and at future reduction efforts.....The study [on behalf of the European Commission] identifies inherently contradictory incentives i...
As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

As the World Burns: A Critique of the World Bank Group's Energy Strategy

This article appeared in late 2013, and the World Bank Group has made progress in adopting some of the article's recommendations, namely commitments to end financing of coal power...
The REDD+ Program is in Denial About the Intractable Problem of Governance

The REDD+ Program is in Denial About the Intractable Problem of Governance

Rich describes carbon markets as the “financial cargo cult that had driven much of the early enthusiasm for REDD+.” REDD national plans often tended to focus on the technical compl...
REDD+, Markets, and Corruption

REDD+, Markets, and Corruption

The allure of an market that pays developing countries and forest communities to preserve standing forests as offsets for not reducing emissions in the richer industrialized nation...
An International Regime in Crisis

An International Regime in Crisis

The Kyoto Protocol, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is based on the premise that a ton of greenhouse gas reductions can be purchased more cheaply in a developing country than a r...