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• Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

  Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the Politics of Environmental Destruction

  Drawing on in depth institutional knowledge, hundreds of case studies, and scores of internal and external reports and evaluations, Foreclosing the Future: The World Bank and the P...

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Articles

• India’s National Green Tribunal and the Future of Environmental Justice

  India’s National Green Tribunal and the Future of Environmental Justice

  Specialized environmental courts have proliferated around the world, growing from 350 in 2009 to over 1,200 in 44 countries by 2017. India’s National Green Tribunal is an innovati...

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• Freeport Mcmoran
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• Government Accountability Office U.S. (GAO)
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• greenhouse gas sink
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• Group of Twenty Largest Economies (G20)
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• Guatemala
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• Hair report
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• Harvard Law School Human Rights Program
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• HFC-23
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• high-risk high-reward
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• Himachal Pradesh
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• Horta Korinna
• hypocrisy
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• IFC Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman
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• ILO Convention 169
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• Independent Evaluation Group IEG World Bank
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• Independent Inspection Panel World Bank
• India
• India
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• indigenous peoples
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• Indonesia
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• industrial gas projects
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• institutional amnesia
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• institutional optimism
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• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IBRD (see also: World Bank)
• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Development Association IDA (see also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Finance Corporation IFC World Bank (See also: World Bank)
• International Labor Organization (ILO)
• International Labor Organization (ILO)
• Issyk-Kul Lake Kyrgyzstan
• Issyk-Kul Lake Kyrgyzstan
• Itaparica dam Brazil
• Itaparica dam Brazil
• James Wolfensohn
• James Wolfensohn
• Jane Loos
• Jane Loos
• Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
• Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
• Jay Hair
• Jay Hair
• Jeffrey Winters
• Jeffrey Winters
• Jim Yong Kim
• Jim Yong Kim
• Joseph Stiglitz
• Joseph Stiglitz
• junk carbon credits
• junk carbon credits
• justice
• justice
• Kammen Daniel
• Kammen Daniel
• Karcher Martin
• Karcher Martin
• Kenya
• Kenya
• Kosovo
• Kosovo
• Kosovo lignite coal plant
• Kosovo lignite coal plant
• Kumtor gold mine (Kyrgyzstan)
• Kumtor gold mine (Kyrgyzstan)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kusile coal plant (South Africa)
• Kyoto Protocol
• Kyoto Protocol
• Kyrgyzstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Küng Hans
• Küng Hans
• Lahmeyer International
• Lahmeyer International
• Laos
• Laos
• large dams
• large dams
• leakage (corruption)
• leakage (corruption)
• Lesotho
• Lesotho
• Lesotho Highlands Water Project
• Lesotho Highlands Water Project
• loan approval culture
• loan approval culture
• logging
• logging
• Lonmin corporation
• Lonmin corporation
• Loos memorandum
• Loos memorandum
• low-carbon energy lending
• low-carbon energy lending
• Madagascar
• Madagascar
• mainstreaming
• mainstreaming
• mainstreaming participation
• mainstreaming participation
• mainstreaming the environment
• mainstreaming the environment
• Mallaby effect
• Mallaby effect
• Mallaby Sebastian
• Mallaby Sebastian
• Markana platinum mine
• Markana platinum mine
• market fundamentalism
• market fundamentalism
• market liberalization
• market liberalization
• Marlin gold mine
• Marlin gold mine
• Martin Karcher
• Martin Karcher
• matrix management
• matrix management
• McKinsey & Company
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• McNamara Robert
• McNamara Robert
• Medupi coal power plant
• Medupi coal power plant
• Meltzer Commission
• Meltzer Commission
• methane
• methane
• Mexico
• Mexico
• Millenium Development Goals
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• Mongolia
• Mongolia
• monitoring
• monitoring
• monitoring and evaluation
• monitoring and evaluation
• Morse Bradford
• Morse Bradford
• Morse Commission
• Morse Commission
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Multilateral Development Banks MDBs
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)
• Nam Theun II dam
• Nam Theun II dam
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Narmada Bachao Andolan
• Narmada dam
• Narmada dam
• Narmada river
• Narmada river
• Narmada Sagar project
• Narmada Sagar project
• National Environmental Action Plans (NEAPs)
• National Environmental Action Plans (NEAPs)
• National Green Tribunal india
• National Green Tribunal india
• natural capital accounting
• natural capital accounting
• Nepal
• Nepal
• networks (World Bank)
• networks (World Bank)
• Newmont Mining
• Newmont Mining
• New Zealand
• New Zealand
• Nigeria
• Nigeria
• non-project lending
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• Okonjo-Iweala Ngozi
• Okonjo-Iweala Ngozi
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• Operations Evaluation Deparment (OED) World Bank
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD
• organized crime
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• Orissa/Odisha
• Orissa/Odisha
• Oxfam
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• Oyu Togoi mine (Mongolia)
• Oyu Togoi mine (Mongolia)
• ozone depletion
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• Pakistan
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• Pangue dam (Chile)
• Pangue dam (Chile)
• Papua New Guinea
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• Paraguay
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• participation
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• Paul Volcker
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• Paul Wolfowitz
• Paul Wolfowitz
• Performance Standards (IFC)
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• Peru
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• perverse incentives
• perverse incentives
• Petronas
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• Pigou Arthur Cecil
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• Plantar project (Brazil)
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• plastic feed stock
• plastic feed stock
• poaching
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• Politics (Aristotle)
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• polluter pays principle
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• pollution
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• POSCO (Korea)
• POSCO (Korea)
• poverty
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• precautionary principle
• precautionary principle
• pressure to lend
• pressure to lend
• Preston Lewis
• Preston Lewis
• private-public partnerships
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• privatization
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• Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
• Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
• public participation
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• Pygmies
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• Qinghai project (Tibet China)
• Qinghai project (Tibet China)
• Quality Assurance Group (World Bank)
• Quality Assurance Group (World Bank)
• Quality Assurance Group Synthesis Report
• Quality Assurance Group Synthesis Report
• Rainforest Action Network
• Rainforest Action Network
• Raymond Baker
• Raymond Baker
• REDD national plans
• REDD national plans
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• refrigerant
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• renewable energy
• renewable energy
• reorganization (of World Bank)
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• Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville)
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• research World Bank
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• resettlement
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• resettlement plan
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• resettlement policies (World Bank)
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• resettlement programs
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• resettlement projects
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• resource curse
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• Richard Lugar
• Richard Lugar
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Declaration Earth Summit 1992
• Rio Earth Summit (1992)
• Rio Earth Summit (1992)
• Rio Plus 20 Conference on Sustainable Development
• Rio Plus 20 Conference on Sustainable Development
• Rio Tinto Zinc
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• risk involuntary
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• risk voluntary
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• Robert McNamara
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• Robert Zoellick
• Robert Zoellick
• Rogoff Kenneth
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• Rosenblum Peter
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• Royal Dutch Shell
• Royal Dutch Shell
• Russia
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• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• Russian Coal Sector Loan
• Safeguard Policies
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• Safeguard Policies (dilution of)
• Safeguard Policies (dilution of)
• Saint Petersburg (Russia)
• Saint Petersburg (Russia)
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• Sardar Sarovar Narmada dam
• Sasan coal plant (India)
• Sasan coal plant (India)
• Schneider Electric S.A.
• Schneider Electric S.A.
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC)
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• sequencing
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• shadow price
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• Shihata Ibrahim
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• Siemens corporation
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• Singh Manmohan
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• Smith Adam
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• social license to operate
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• South Africa
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• South Africa Council of Churches
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• soya
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• Stern Ernest
• Stern Ernest
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment 1972 (United Nations)
• Strategic Compact (Wolfensohn's)
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• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• Strategic Framework on Climate change and Development (World Bank 2008)
• structural adjustment
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• structural adjustment loans
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• Sudan
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• Suharto
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• Sumatra
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• Summers Lawrence
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• supercritical coal plants
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• supervision (World Bank)
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• sustainability
• sustainability
• sustainable development
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• Task Managers (World Bank)
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• Tata Mundra coal plant
• Tata Mundra coal plant
• tax haven capital flows
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• tax havens
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• Tibet
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• tigers
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• Training and Visit (T&V) agricultural extension programs
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• transparency
• transparency
• Transparency International
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• Treasury Department U.S.
• Treasury Department U.S.
• Trust Fund accounts (MDBs)
• Trust Fund accounts (MDBs)
• Trust Funds (World Bank)
• Trust Funds (World Bank)
• Tutu Desmond
• Tutu Desmond
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congress
• U.S. Congressional International Financial Institution Advisory Committee (Meltzer Commision)
• U.S. Congressional International Financial Institution Advisory Committee (Meltzer Commision)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Export-Import Bank
• U.S. Federal Reserve
• U.S. Federal Reserve
• U.S. Government Accountability Office
• U.S. Government Accountability Office
• U.S. Treasury Department
• U.S. Treasury Department
• Uganda
• Uganda
• Umbrella Carbon Facility (World Bank)
• Umbrella Carbon Facility (World Bank)
• UNCED
• UNCED
• UNDP
• UNDP
• UNESCO World Heritage
• UNESCO World Heritage
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• UNFCCC (see also Kyoto Protocol)
• United Kingdom
• United Kingdom
• United Nations
• United Nations
• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
• United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED)
• United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972)
• United Nations Conference on the Human Environment (Stockholm 1972)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
• United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (see also Kyoto Protocol)
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• UN System
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• Viet Nam
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• Volcker Paul
• Volcker Paul
• Wade Robert
• Wade Robert
• Wapenhans report
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• Wapenhans Willi
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• Washington Consensus
• Washington Consensus
• Wen Jiabao
• Wen Jiabao
• Western Poverty Alleviation Project (Qinghai China)
• Western Poverty Alleviation Project (Qinghai China)
• WikiLeaks
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• William Easterly
• William Easterly
• Wolfensohn James
• Wolfensohn James
• Wolfowitz Paul
• Wolfowitz Paul
• 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 charter
• World Bank charter
• World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
• World Bank Forest Carbon Partnership Facility
• World Bank Forest Strategy
• World Bank Forest Strategy
• World Bank Group (WBG)
• World Bank Group (WBG)
• World Bank Independent Evaluation Group
• World Bank Independent Evaluation Group
• World Bank Independent Inspection Panel
• World Bank Independent Inspection Panel
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Operations Evaluation Department
• World Bank Participation Sourcebook
• World Bank Participation Sourcebook
• World Bank Partnership for Market Readiness
• World Bank Partnership for Market Readiness
• World Bank Quality Assurance Group
• World Bank Quality Assurance Group
• World Commission on Dams
• World Commission on Dams
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Development Report (World Bank)
• World Health Organization
• World Health Organization
• World Resources Institute
• World Resources Institute
• World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 (WSSD)
• World Summit on Sustainable Development 2002 (WSSD)
• World Wide Fund for Nature
• World Wide Fund for Nature
• World Wildlife Fund
• World Wildlife Fund
• Yacyretá dam
• Yacyretá dam
• Yamuna River
• Yamuna River
• Yanacocha mine
• Yanacocha mine
• Zoellick Robert
• Zoellick Robert

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