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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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• 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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• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
• Albras aluminum smelter (Brazil)
• Albras aluminum smelter (Brazil)
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• aluminum industry
• Amazon
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• Asian Development Bank
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• Babaquara dam project (Brazil)
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• BHP Billiton
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• Daniel Kammen
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• Ghana
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• Government Accountability Office U.S. (GAO)
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• Kosovo lignite coal plant
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• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
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• Medupi coal power plant
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• Mekong River Commission
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• Michael Wara
• Michael Wara
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• Millenium Development Goals
• mini-grid
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• National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
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• no regrets policy
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• off-grid
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• Oxfam
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• Performance Standards (IFC)
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• Peru
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• perverse incentives
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• Philip Fearnside
• Philip Fearnside
• Plantar project (Brazil)
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• plastic feed stock
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• Pristina (Kosovo)
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• Rio Plus 20 Conference on Sustainable Development
• Rio Plus 20 Conference on Sustainable Development
• Safeguard Policies
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• Sasan coal plant (India)
• Sasan coal plant (India)
• shadow price
• shadow price
• solar
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• South Africa
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• staff incentives
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• Stanford University
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• Stategic Framework on Development and Climate Change (World Bank 2008)
• Stategic Framework on Development and Climate Change (World Bank 2008)
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• Strategic Climate Fund
• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• sulfur dioxide
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• supercritical coal plants
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• supervision (World Bank)
• supervision (World Bank)
• sustainable development
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• Tata Mundra coal plant
• Tata Mundra coal plant
• The Future We Want
• The Future We Want
• tracking (CO2 emissions)
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• trade-offs
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• Transparency International
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• trickle down aproach
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• tropical forest biome
• tropical forest biome
• Turn Down the Heat (World Bank)
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• Uganda
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• Umbrella Carbon Facility (World Bank)
• Umbrella Carbon Facility (World Bank)
• UNDP
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• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
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• 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
• Viet Nam
• Viet Nam
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans report
• Wapenhans Willi
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• wind
• wind
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• World Bank
• World Bank
• World Bank Board of Executive Directors
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• 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
• Xingu River
• Xingu River

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