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		<title>Kenya: Pan Paper plans to expand its polluting operations</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2007/10/29/kenya-pan-paper-plans-to-expand-its-polluting-operations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenya&#8217;s biggest and most polluting pulp and paper mill, which is partly owned by the IFC, is set to expand. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 123, October 2007. Earlier this year, in an attempt to discourage the use of plastic bags, the Kenyan government slapped a 120 per cent tax on plastic.[1] While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=662&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indonesia: World Bank/WWF experts look for new ways to subsidise plantations</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2006/09/22/indonesia-world-bankwwf-experts-look-for-new-ways-to-subsidise-plantations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 110, September 2006. Wherever industrial tree plantations are planted in the South, governments provide a range of subsidies to investors. In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=228&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Open for business&#8221;: How the International Finance Corporation subsidises the pulp and paper industry</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2005/06/28/open-for-business-how-the-international-finance-corporation-subsidises-the-pulp-and-paper-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2005 14:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IFC uses tax-payers’ money to support pulp and paper companies, with little pretence of even attempting to relieve poverty. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 95, June 2005. Since it was founded in 1956, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) has committed more than US$44 billion of its own funds and arranged a further US$23 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=460&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laos: World Bank finances the Nam Theun 2 dam regardless of its own policies</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2005/04/14/laos-world-bank-finances-the-nam-theun-2-dam-regardless-of-its-own-policies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2005 07:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 93, April 2005. Back in 1989, when Australian company Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation was hired to produce a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=535&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laos: German NGO letter to State Secretary Erich Stather about Nam Theun 2</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2005/03/22/laos-german-ngo-letter-to-state-secretary-erich-stather-about-nam-theun-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Click here for German language version] Date: 19 Mar 05 From: Chris Lang To: erich.statherATbmz.bund.de Subject: Nam Theun 2 State Secretary Erich Stather German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Europahaus, Stresemannstr. 94 10963 Berlin Frankfurt, 19th March 2005 Dear State Secretary Stather, We, the undersigned German social and environmental organisations working on forest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=537&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brazil: World Bank loan to Aracruz is in breach of bank forest policy</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2005/03/21/brazil-world-bank-loan-to-aracruz-is-in-breach-of-bank-forest-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 92, March 2005. The world&#8217;s largest producer of bleached eucalyptus pulp has plans to become even bigger. Last year, Aracruz Cellulose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=462&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Laos: Nam Theun 2, the World Bank and corruption</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2005/03/19/laos-nam-theun-2-the-world-bank-and-corruption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2005 07:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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? By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 92, March 2005. On 31 March 2005, the World Bank&#8217;s Board of Directors will decide whether to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=536&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State Secretary Erich Stather&#8217;s reply to German NGO letter about Nam Theun 2</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2005/03/13/state-secretary-erich-stathers-reply-to-german-ngo-letter-about-nam-theun-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2005 08:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Click here for German language version] State Secretary Erich Stather German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) Stresemannstr. 94 10963 Berlin 13 April 2005 Dear Mr. Lang, The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) tested intensively and very critically the Nam Theun 2 project proposal in the run up to the World [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=539&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the World Bank have a position on GM trees?</title>
		<link>http://chrislang.org/2004/12/01/does-the-world-bank-have-a-position-on-gm-trees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do World Bank policies allow the Bank to fund GM tree plantations? No one at the Bank seems to know. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 88, November 2004. Perhaps I&#8217;m being naïve, but I really thought that the World Bank would have a position on GM trees. The first field trial of GM [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=512&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The carbon spin doctors: How the World Bank explains emissions trading to journalists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2004 13:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Lang</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a workshop at the Carbon Expo in Cologne, the World Bank explained why it is creating a new commodity: carbon. By Chris Lang. Published in WRM Bulletin 84, July 2004. &#8220;Carbon emission trading, a vehicle for development. Is this a story that&#8217;s worth telling? I think it is,&#8221; Sergio Jellinek, a communications advisor at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=chrislang.org&amp;blog=99550&amp;post=565&amp;subd=chrislang&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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