Kenya’s biggest and most polluting pulp and paper mill, which is partly owned by the IFC, is set to expand.
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Kenya: Pan Paper plans to expand its polluting operations
29 OctIndonesia: World Bank/WWF experts look for new ways to subsidise plantations
22 SepThe 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.
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“Open for business”: How the International Finance Corporation subsidises the pulp and paper industry
28 JunIFC uses tax-payers’ money to support pulp and paper companies, with little pretence of even attempting to relieve poverty.
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Laos: World Bank finances the Nam Theun 2 dam regardless of its own policies
14 AprOn 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.
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Brazil: World Bank loan to Aracruz is in breach of bank forest policy
21 MarThe 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.
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Laos: Nam Theun 2, the World Bank and corruption
19 MarThe 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?
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Does the World Bank have a position on GM trees?
1 DecDo World Bank policies allow the Bank to fund GM tree plantations? No one at the Bank seems to know.
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The carbon spin doctors: How the World Bank explains emissions trading to journalists
16 Jul At a workshop at the Carbon Expo in Cologne, the World Bank explained why it is creating a new commodity: carbon.
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Laos: French company pulls the plug on Nam Theun 2
24 JulIn July 2003, Electricité de France announced that it was pulling out of the Nam Theun 2 dam project in Laos.
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Vietnam: Unique biodiversity threatened by World Bank-funded cement plant
25 JunIFC is funding a cement plant, partly owned by Swiss company Holcim, in Hon Chong in the southwest of Vietnam. The EIA makes almost no mention of the plant’s impact on biodiversity.
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Laos: Nam Theun 2 dam – Fighting corruption World Bank style
24 FebWhere 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.
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Laos: The impact of the Nam Theun 2 dam on Indigenous Peoples
25 SepMore 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.
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Vietnam: Shrimps, mangroves and the World Bank (2)
25 NovChristopher 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.
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Vietnam: Shrimps, mangroves and the World Bank
25 OctThe 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.
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Laos: Planned Nam Theun 2 dam leads to increased logging
25 SepInstead 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.
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Laos: Cutting the trees to save the forest
25 MarFor the last decade a military run logging company has been logging the 450 square kilometre reservoir area behind the proposed Nam Theun 2 dam.
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Laos: Correspondence with the World Bank about Nam Theun 2
25 MarHow the World Bank avoids giving straight answers to straight questions.
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