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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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• 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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