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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...
Specialized environmental courts have proliferated around the world, growing from 350 in 2009 to over 1,200 in 44 countries by 2017. India’s National Green Tribunal is an innovati...
The World Bank is doing its best to present itself as a born-again friend of the earth. Bruce Rich separates fact from fancy.
In 1987 the World Bank made sweeping commitments to environmental reform, but deep seated institutional problems made real progress difficult.
A description and analysis of the strategy of civil society organizations to promote environmental reforms in World Bank in the 1980s.
First of two essays summarizing my analysis of the World Bank's record in addressing climate change, including managing global carbon trading funds, in the web blog and discussion...
Drawing on in depth institutional knowledge, hundreds of case studies, and scores of internal and external reports and evaluations, Bruce Rich paints a picture of a Bank still infl...
Turkey, the world’s 17th largest economy, plans to as much as quadruple coal-fired electric capacity, building as many as 80 new plants by 2030. It could become the world’s third-l...
The United Nations Green Climate Fund is the principal international mechanism to channel finance from richer nations to developing countries for climate change mitigation and adap...
The Rio Conference agreement, The Future We Want, pledged to “renew our commitment to sustainable development...” Meanwhile, hundreds of Brazilian Amerindians, from several threate...
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...
The World Bank has become the main financial administrator of “climate investment funds as well as for 12 different "carbon funds." A growing literature has documented the lack of...
The Barefoot College has trained hundreds of poor villagers as grassroots solar power installation workers and engineers. Founder Bunker Roy writes that “any goal that is driven fr...
Carbon capture and storgage would greatly increase the capital and operating costs of new plants. The cost of CCS is such that rapidly maturing technologies such as wind and solar...
Ninety-seven percent of the increase in energy-related CO2 emissions through 2030 will occur in developing nations. Without major changes in international energy investment, the in...
The scope of the Indian RTI (Right to Information) law exceeds that of similar laws in most industrial countries, applying to states, municipalities and other local bodies, as well...
The world’s richest nations are preparing to deliver as much as $12 billion in extra funds to the World Bank to fight global warming. At the same time, the bank is accelerating len...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation as well as other international organizations are not totally immune from lawsuits in the US. Af...
In the midst of accelerating global warming, tens of billions of dollars continue to flow from private and public international banks into financing new coal fired plants, especial...
"Foreclosing the Future," Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: I discuss the findings of my then recently published new book on the World Bank, "...
