Kenya’s biggest and most polluting pulp and paper mill, which is partly owned by the IFC, is set to expand.
Entries Tagged as ‘World Bank’
22 September 2006
Indonesia: World Bank/WWF experts look for new ways to subsidise plantations
The World Bank/WWF Forestry Alliance is supporting the massively destructive pulp and paper industry in Indonesia, by looking for new financial mechanisms to subsidise industrial tree plantations.
28 June 2005
“Open for business”: How the International Finance Corporation subsidises the pulp and paper industry
IFC uses tax-payers’ money to support pulp and paper companies, with little pretence of even attempting to relieve poverty.
14 April 2005
Laos: World Bank finances the Nam Theun 2 dam regardless of its own policies
On 31 March 2005, the World Bank’s board approved US$270 million in guarantees and loans for the Nam Theun 2 dam. It did so in breach of its own policies.
21 March 2005
Brazil: World Bank loan to Aracruz is in breach of bank forest policy
The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation gave a US$50 million loan to Aracruz in November 2004. The loan is in breach of the World Bank’s forest policy.
19 March 2005
Laos: Nam Theun 2, the World Bank and corruption
The World Bank claims that it has investigated corruption in the Nam Theun 2 project. If everything is so squeaky clean, why won’t the Bank release the reports of its investigations?
1 December 2004
Does the World Bank have a position on GM trees?
Do World Bank policies allow the Bank to fund GM tree plantations? No one at the Bank seems to know.
16 July 2004
The carbon spin doctors: How the World Bank explains emissions trading to journalists
At a workshop at the Carbon Expo in Cologne, the World Bank explained why it is creating a new commodity: carbon.
24 July 2003
Laos: French company pulls the plug on Nam Theun 2
In July 2003, Electricité de France announced that it was pulling out of the Nam Theun 2 dam project in Laos.
24 February 2003
Laos: Nam Theun 2 dam – Fighting corruption World Bank style
Where has the money that a Lao military logging company made from logging the reservoir area of the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam? The World Bank doesn’t seem to care.
25 September 2002
Laos: The impact of the Nam Theun 2 dam on Indigenous Peoples
More than 130,000 people would see their livelihoods destroyed if the Nam Theun 2 dam were built. The project has already had a serious impact on indigenous communities living in the reservoir area.
25 November 2001
Vietnam: Shrimps, mangroves and the World Bank (2)
Christopher Gibbs of the World Bank office in Hanoi, requested that WRM publish his response to article on Vietnam in WRM Bulletin 51. Mr Gibbs’ letter is reproduced in full below, followed by my reply.
25 October 2001
Vietnam: Shrimps, mangroves and the World Bank
The World Bank is funding a mangrove reforestation project in the south of Vietnam. Rather than looking at the root causes of deforestation, however, the Bank blames villagers.
25 September 2001
Laos: Planned Nam Theun 2 dam leads to increased logging
Instead of providing independent advice on the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam, the International Advisory Group has become a promoter of the project, despite documenting the impacts that project-related logging is having on the forests nearby.
25 March 2001
Laos: Cutting the trees to save the forest
For the last decade a military run logging company has been logging the 450 square kilometre reservoir area behind the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam.
25 March 2001
Laos: Correspondence with the World Bank about Nam Theun 2
How the World Bank avoids giving straight answers to straight questions.
