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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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• Foreclosing the Future: Examining 20 years of the World Bank's Environmental Performance

  Foreclosing the Future: Examining 20 years of the World Bank's Environmental Performance

  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...

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• Amazon, Climate Change, and China

  Amazon, Climate Change, and China

  Climate change mitigation faces the powerful forces of a deregulated, voracious globalized economy fed by increasing demand for energy and resources....A seminal 2012 article by P...

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• Bank: Waiting for Real Leadership,

  Bank: Waiting for Real Leadership,

  World Bank President Kim praised the Bank International Finance Corporation, its private sector investment branch, as a model, despite environmental and social conflicts in IFC ext...

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• Carbon Bombing the Future: The World's Largest Offshore Oil Project

  Carbon Bombing the Future: The World's Largest Offshore Oil Project

  The world’s largest new oil and gas project is taking place 120 miles offshore from Guyana. Exxonmobil (45 percent share) together with Hess (30 percent), and the Chinese company...

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• accountability
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• Agency for International Development AID (see also: U.S.AID)
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• agrobusiness
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• Amazon
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• Cayman Islands
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• Certified Emissions Reductions (CERs)
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• Chad-Cameroon oil development and pipeline project
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• Daniel Kammen
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• David Kammen
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• Deepwater Horizon
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• Dr. Jim Yong Kim
• Dr. Jim Yong Kim
• drilling
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• Dying for Growth
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• Emil Salim
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• Foreclosing the Future
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• Heller Dr. Thomas
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• Hess
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• Human Development Report (UNDP)
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• Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
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• Inter-American Development Bank IDB
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• James Wolfensohn
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• Kammen Daniel
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• Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW)
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• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kyoto Protocol
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• large dams
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• lignite
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• loan approval culture
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• Lonmin corporation
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• low-carbon energy lending
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• mainstreaming
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• Markana massacre
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• Markana platinum mine
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• Medupi coal power plant
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• Mekong River Commission
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• Michael Wara
• Michael Wara
• micro hydropower
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• Millenium Development Goals
• Millenium Development Goals
• mini-grid
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• mining
• mining
• Mongolia
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• National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
• National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
• natural gas
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• neoliberalism
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• Newmont Mining
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• nitrous oxide
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• non-project lending
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• no regrets policy
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• Obama President Barack
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• off-grid
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• oil
• oil
• oil projects
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• oil spills
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• Oxfam
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• Paris climate summit (2015)
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• particulate matter
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• Partners in Health
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• Paul Volcker
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• Paul Wolfowitz
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• Performance Standards (IFC)
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• Peru
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• perverse incentives
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• petroleum
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• Plantar project (Brazil)
• Plantar project (Brazil)
• plastic feed stock
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• pollution
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• poverty
• poverty
• poverty alleviation
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• premature mortality
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• Pristina (Kosovo)
• Pristina (Kosovo)
• Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
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• public health
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• Quality Assurance Group (World Bank)
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• renewable energy
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• renewables
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• resettlement
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• resource curse
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• Rio Earth Summit (1992)
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• roadbuilding
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• Robert Zoellick
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• Royal Dutch Shell
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• Sasan coal plant (India)
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• sequencing
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• shadow price
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• solar
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• South Africa
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• South Africa Council of Churches
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• soya
• soya
• 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)
• Strategic Climate Fund
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• 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)
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• Tata Mundra coal plant
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• tracking (CO2 emissions)
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• Transparency International
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• trickle down aproach
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• tropical deforestation
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• tropical moist forests
• tropical moist forests
• Turn Down the Heat (World Bank)
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• U.S. Congress
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• U.S. Export-Import Bank
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• U.S. Federal Reserve
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• U.S. Government Accountability Office
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• Uganda
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• Umbrella Carbon Facility (World Bank)
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• UNCED
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• UNDP
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• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
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• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
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• universal energy access
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• University of California Berkeley
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• unsustainable development
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• UN System
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• Urgewald
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• Viet Nam
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• Wapenhans report
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• Wapenhans Willi
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• water pollution
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• West Africa
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• wind
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• Wolfensohn James
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• Wolfowitz Paul
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• World Bank Quality Assurance Group
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• World Commission on Dams
• World Commission on Dams
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Economic Forum
• World Economic Forum
• Yanacocha mine
• Yanacocha mine
• Zoellick Robert
• Zoellick Robert

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