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• 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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• Tax Evasion That Harms the Global Commons: No Problem If It's Legal?

  Tax Evasion That Harms the Global Commons: No Problem If It's Legal?

  “Dirty money” flows totalling over $1.1 trillion a year support human trafficking, global drug mafias, terrorist networks, and arms smuggling, as well as fueling international wild...

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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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• Climate 'Madness':Public Finance Abetting Gas and Oil in Suriname

  Climate 'Madness':Public Finance Abetting Gas and Oil in Suriname

  On March 21, 2022 United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the world is “sleepwalking to climate catastrophe.” An example is the massive international public fin...

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• Climate Finance Will Fail If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Not Eliminated

  Climate Finance Will Fail If Fossil Fuel Subsidies Are Not Eliminated

  Last year the International Monetary Fund reported that the world’s nations in 2022 had nearly doubled since 2020 their subsidization of oil, gas, and yes, still coal, to an all-ti...

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• ocean fisheries
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• oil and gas subsidization
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• Olivier Blanchard
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• Performance Standards (IFC)
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• Plantar project (Brazil)
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