Content Tagged: energy access

Articles

• 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...

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• Megadams and Economic Folly

  Megadams and Economic Folly

  A recent review of the economic costs and benefits of 245 large dams by four Oxford professors....found “overwhelming evidence” that the real costs of large dam projects, are for t...

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• Whose Future, Whose Wants?

  Whose Future, Whose Wants?

  The Rio Conference agreement, The Future We Want, pledged to “renew our commitment to sustainable development...” Meanwhile, hundreds of Brazilian Amerindians, from several threate...

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• Locked into a World on Fire?

  Locked into a World on Fire?

  The tragedy is that there already lies a clear path to achieve two thirds of the needed CO2 emission reductions, while supporting poverty-reducing clean energy investments in devel...

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Videos

• "Foreclosing the Future," Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, December, 2014

  "Foreclosing the Future," Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Minneapolis, December, 2014

  "Foreclosing the Future," Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy: I discuss the findings of my then recently published new book on the World Bank, "...

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• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
• agrobusiness
• agrobusiness
• Albras aluminum smelter (Brazil)
• Albras aluminum smelter (Brazil)
• aluminum industry
• aluminum industry
• Amazon
• Amazon
• Amazon forest
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• Angola
• Angola
• Argentina
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• Asian Development Bank
• Asian Development Bank
• Babaquara dam project (Brazil)
• Babaquara dam project (Brazil)
• baseline (CDM)
• baseline (CDM)
• Belem
• Belem
• Belo Monte dam (Brazil)
• Belo Monte dam (Brazil)
• Bertrin (Brazil)
• Bertrin (Brazil)
• BHP Billiton
• BHP Billiton
• binding caps
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• biomass
• biomass
• Brazil
• Brazil
• Brazil Naitonal Insitute for Amazon Research (INPA)
• Brazil Naitonal Insitute for Amazon Research (INPA)
• Brazil National Development Bank (BNDES)
• Brazil National Development Bank (BNDES)
• Bretton Woods
• Bretton Woods
• bribes (CDM)
• bribes (CDM)
• Burkina Faso
• Burkina Faso
• business as usual
• business as usual
• Cambodia
• Cambodia
• Cameroon
• Cameroon
• Camisea project
• Camisea project
• Cancun Climate Negotiations (201o)
• Cancun Climate Negotiations (201o)
• capital-intensive projects
• capital-intensive projects
• carbon capture and storage (CCS)
• carbon capture and storage (CCS)
• carbon dioxide
• carbon dioxide
• carbon finance
• carbon finance
• carbon footprint
• carbon footprint
• Carbon Funds
• Carbon Funds
• carbon markets
• carbon markets
• carbon sink
• carbon sink
• Carbon Trading
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• cattle ranching projects
• cattle ranching projects
• cattle slaughterhouses
• cattle slaughterhouses
• Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs)
• Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs)
• Chad-Cameroon oil development and pipeline project
• Chad-Cameroon oil development and pipeline project
• Chile
• Chile
• China
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• China Export-Import Bank
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• Chinese HFC 22 factories
• Chinese HFC 22 factories
• Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
• Clean Development Mechanism (CDM)
• clean energy
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• Clean Technology Fund
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• Climate Change
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• climate change adaptation
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• climate change mitigation
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• climate change resilience
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• Climate Investment Funds
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• CO2 emissions
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• coal
• coal
• coal-plant financing
• coal-plant financing
• coal phaseout
• coal phaseout
• coal power plants
• coal power plants
• Committee on Development Effectiveness CODE (World Bank)
• Committee on Development Effectiveness CODE (World Bank)
• Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (IFC)
• Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman (IFC)
• conflict of interest
• conflict of interest
• contradictions World Bank
• contradictions World Bank
• copper
• copper
• corruption
• corruption
• cost-benefit analysis
• cost-benefit analysis
• cost of abatement
• cost of abatement
• culture of loan approval
• culture of loan approval
• dams (see also large dams)
• dams (see also large dams)
• Daniel Kammen
• Daniel Kammen
• developing nations
• developing nations
• Development Policy Loans
• Development Policy Loans
• donor country hypocrisy
• donor country hypocrisy
• economic efficiency
• economic efficiency
• Ecuador
• Ecuador
• efficient lighting
• efficient lighting
• Egypt
• Egypt
• El Salvador
• El Salvador
• Emil Salim
• Emil Salim
• end-use energy efficiency
• end-use energy efficiency
• Enenergy Policy (journal)
• Enenergy Policy (journal)
• energy
• energy
• energy access
• energy access
• energy alternatives
• energy alternatives
• energy conservation
• energy conservation
• Energy Czar World Bank
• Energy Czar World Bank
• energy efficiency
• energy efficiency
• energy finance
• energy finance
• energy policy
• energy policy
• energy sector
• energy sector
• energy strategy
• energy strategy
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Environmental Defense Fund
• environmental integrity
• environmental integrity
• Eskom (South Africa)
• Eskom (South Africa)
• European Union
• European Union
• Ex-Im Bank
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• Export Credit Agencies ECAs
• Extractive Industries Review
• Extractive Industries Review
• farmers (India)
• farmers (India)
• farmer suicides
• farmer suicides
• financial intermediaries (IFC)
• financial intermediaries (IFC)
• fisheries
• fisheries
• forced resettlement
• forced resettlement
• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• foreign aid (see also: foreign assistance)
• fossil fuel power
• fossil fuel power
• fossil fuel subsidies
• fossil fuel subsidies
• free trade
• free trade
• G20 Summit 2009
• G20 Summit 2009
• gas
• gas
• geothermal
• geothermal
• Ghana
• Ghana
• global warming
• global warming
• Government Accountability Office U.S. (GAO)
• Government Accountability Office U.S. (GAO)
• greenhouse gas (GHG)
• greenhouse gas (GHG)
• greenhouse gas accounting
• greenhouse gas accounting
• greenhouse gas emissions
• greenhouse gas emissions
• Greenpeace
• Greenpeace
• Green Revolution
• Green Revolution
• Group of Twenty Largest Economies (G20)
• Group of Twenty Largest Economies (G20)
• Heller Dr. Thomas
• Heller Dr. Thomas
• Hermes Guarantee
• Hermes Guarantee
• HFC-23
• HFC-23
• HFC-23 abatement projects
• HFC-23 abatement projects
• HFC-23 offsets
• HFC-23 offsets
• HFC 22
• HFC 22
• HFC 22 factories
• HFC 22 factories
• Human Development Report (UNDP)
• Human Development Report (UNDP)
• hydroelectric projects
• hydroelectric projects
• hydropower GHG emissions
• hydropower GHG emissions
• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
• incentives
• incentives
• inclusive green growth
• inclusive green growth
• Independent Evaluation Group IEG World Bank
• Independent Evaluation Group IEG World Bank
• India
• India
• India Coal Fired Generation Rehabilitation Project (World Bank)
• India Coal Fired Generation Rehabilitation Project (World Bank)
• indigenous peoples
• indigenous peoples
• Indonesia
• Indonesia
• industrial gas projects
• industrial gas projects
• institutional pathologies
• institutional pathologies
• internaliization (of costs)
• internaliization (of costs)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
• International Energy Agency (IEA)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Maritime Organization
• International Maritime Organization
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• International Monetary Fund IMF
• iron
• iron
• Japan
• Japan
• Jim Yong Kim
• Jim Yong Kim
• Kammen Daniel
• Kammen Daniel
• Kosovo
• Kosovo
• Kosovo lignite coal plant
• Kosovo lignite coal plant
• Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
• Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kyoto Protocol
• Kyoto Protocol
• land grabs
• land grabs
• large dams
• large dams
• low-carbon energy lending
• low-carbon energy lending
• Maggi (Brazil)
• Maggi (Brazil)
• McKinsey & Company
• McKinsey & Company
• Medupi coal power plant
• Medupi coal power plant
• megadams
• megadams
• Mekong River Commission
• Mekong River Commission
• methane
• methane
• Mexico
• Mexico
• Michael Wara
• Michael Wara
• micro hydropower
• micro hydropower
• Millenium Development Goals
• Millenium Development Goals
• mini-grid
• mini-grid
• National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
• National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
• neoliberalism
• neoliberalism
• Nepal
• Nepal
• nickel
• nickel
• Nigeria
• Nigeria
• nitrous oxide
• nitrous oxide
• non-project lending
• non-project lending
• no regrets policy
• no regrets policy
• off-grid
• off-grid
• oil projects
• oil projects
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
• Oxfam
• Oxfam
• Pakistan
• Pakistan
• Para
• Para
• particulate matter
• particulate matter
• Performance Standards (IFC)
• Performance Standards (IFC)
• Peru
• Peru
• perverse incentives
• perverse incentives
• Philip Fearnside
• Philip Fearnside
• Plantar project (Brazil)
• Plantar project (Brazil)
• plastic feed stock
• plastic feed stock
• policy loans
• policy loans
• political deception (in investment decisions)
• political deception (in investment decisions)
• political economy
• political economy
• political will
• political will
• poverty
• poverty
• poverty alleviation
• poverty alleviation
• premature mortality
• premature mortality
• Preston Lewis
• Preston Lewis
• Pristina (Kosovo)
• Pristina (Kosovo)
• private sector investment
• private sector investment
• productive investments
• productive investments
• progress narrative of
• progress narrative of
• Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
• Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
• psycihological delusion (in investment decisions)
• psycihological delusion (in investment decisions)
• public health
• public health
• rainforest
• rainforest
• refrigerant
• refrigerant
• renewable energy
• renewable energy
• resettlement
• resettlement
• resource curse
• resource curse
• Rio Plus 20 Conference on Sustainable Development
• Rio Plus 20 Conference on Sustainable Development
• Safeguard Policies
• Safeguard Policies
• Sasan coal plant (India)
• Sasan coal plant (India)
• Saudi Arabia
• Saudi Arabia
• Senegal
• Senegal
• shadow price
• shadow price
• solar
• solar
• South Africa
• South Africa
• South Asia
• South Asia
• staff incentives
• staff incentives
• Stanford University
• Stanford University
• Stategic Framework on Development and Climate Change (World Bank 2008)
• Stategic Framework on Development and Climate Change (World Bank 2008)
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• Stockholm Declaration (1972)
• Strategic Climate Fund
• Strategic Climate Fund
• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sudan
• Sudan
• suicides (Indian farmer)
• suicides (Indian farmer)
• sulfur dioxide
• sulfur dioxide
• supercritical coal plants
• supercritical coal plants
• supervision (World Bank)
• supervision (World Bank)
• sustainable development
• sustainable development
• Tata Mundra coal plant
• Tata Mundra coal plant
• Thayer Schudder
• Thayer Schudder
• The Future We Want
• The Future We Want
• tracking (CO2 emissions)
• tracking (CO2 emissions)
• trade-offs
• trade-offs
• Transparency International
• Transparency International
• trickle down aproach
• trickle down aproach
• tropical forest biome
• tropical forest biome
• Turn Down the Heat (World Bank)
• Turn Down the Heat (World Bank)
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Government Accountability Office
• U.S. Government Accountability Office
• Uganda
• Uganda
• Umbrella Carbon Facility (World Bank)
• Umbrella Carbon Facility (World Bank)
• UNDP
• UNDP
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• universal energy access
• universal energy access
• University of California Berkeley
• University of California Berkeley
• Venezuela
• Venezuela
• Viet Nam
• Viet Nam
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans Willi
• Wapenhans Willi
• Washington Consensus
• Washington Consensus
• wind
• wind
• wind farms
• wind farms
• World Bank
• World Bank
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
• World Bank Carbon Funds
• World Bank Carbon Funds
• World Bank Group (WBG)
• World Bank Group (WBG)
• World Bank Independent Evaluation Group
• World Bank Independent Evaluation Group
• World Commission on Dams
• World Commission on Dams
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Economic Forum
• World Economic Forum
• World Energy Outlook (IEA)
• World Energy Outlook (IEA)
• Xingu River
• Xingu River
• Yemen
• Yemen

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