Climate Change

Photo: Rodrigo Baleia/Greenpeace

 

In April, 2011, we co-authored a report with Groundwork and Friends of the Earth on energy financing at the World Bank, titled "World Bank, Climate Change, and Energy Financing: Something Old. Something New?".  Read the report below, and download the report at the link that follows.

• From September 2010 World Rivers Review    

Exodus in Punjab. (Action Aid)

The floods that are currently ravaging Pakistan have created a human tragedy beyond imagination. At least 1,600 people have lost their lives, 20 million people have been affected, and 4 million people have been left homeless. Many families have lost their whole existence – their homes, fields, crops and cattle – overnight, with no safety net to fall back on. The floods have also washed away schools, health centers, roads and bridges.

Ms. Kathy Sierra
Vice President, Sustainable Development Network
The World Bank
1818 H Street NW
Washington, DC 20433

Dear Ms. Sierra,

Tucuruí dam in Brazil (Andreas Missbach)

In November 2000, the World Commission on Dams published its ground-breaking report, Dams and Development, after an unprecedented multi-stakeholder process. Ten years later, Water Alternatives, an independent academic online journal, revisits the WCD and its impacts in a special issue, and explores the question: Is the WCD still relevant?

International Rivers Submission to the WCI Offset Committee

International Rivers provides the following comments regarding the WCI Offsets Committee's "Offset System Essential Elements Draft Recommendations Paper" issued in April 2010.