The Green Climate Fund should remain fully independent from the World Bank. Its design committee should engage experts from UN agencies and all regions of the world.
Bjorn Stigson | Posted 05.25.2011
The need for traditional sources of energy for growth in developing countries combined with the ambitions to reduce global carbon emissions presents the world with a dual challenge.
Erich Pica | Posted 05.25.2011
What would you do with $3.75 billion -- that is, if you had to use it to fund a project that alleviates poverty and mitigates climate change, and not to, say, purchase a personal tropical island?
Mother Jones | Kate Sheppard | Posted 05.25.2011
The World Bank yesterday approved a $3.75 billion loan to South African public utility Eskom to fund what will become the world's seventh-largest coal...
Jake Schmidt | Posted 05.25.2011
We support the efforts of developing countries to alleviate their energy poverty, but dirty coal power is not the pathway to a sustainable economy. The World Bank must do much more to help.
Khadija Sharife | Posted 05.25.2011
The Beijing dragon breathes, and as it does - given that China has since become the world's major emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2), overtaking even the...
Chad Dobson | Posted 05.25.2011
More than one hundred participants attended the consultation as part of an open dialogue with the World Bank as they continue to shape their Energy Strategy Approach Paper.
Janet Redman | Posted 06.07.2011