WRI Stories Feed: International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE)

Strengthening Ownership and Effectiveness of Climate Finance

Milap Patel — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:43:20 -0400

The Climate Investment Funds (CIFs), one of the world’s largest dedicated funding facilities for climate change mitigation/adaptation projects,…

How Are China’s Overseas Investments Affecting the Environment?

Denise Leung — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:13:04 -0400

Chinese overseas investments are rapidly increasing. As of 2011, China’s outward foreign direct investments (OFDI) spread across 132 countries and regions…

The End of Poverty? The World Bank and the Shared Prosperity Agenda

Milap Patel — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:09:11 -0400

Within our lifetimes, the world could be free of widespread, extreme poverty, replaced instead with shared prosperity and environmental and fiscal balance. That was the vision World Bank President Jim Yong Kim outlined at his first…

How Much Did the United States Contribute to International Fast-Start Finance?

Taryn Fransen — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:59:23 -0400

This post was co-authored with Jenna Blumenthal, an intern with WRI’s Climate and Energy program.

As U.S. government officials take stock of…

Climate Finance in East Africa: Stories and Lessons

Louise Brown — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:02:29 -0400

This post originally appeared on the Climate Development and Knowledge Network’s (CDKN) website.

Having recently…

5 Steps to Improve the World Bank’s Social and Environmental Safeguards

Gaia Larsen — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:38:56 -0400

The World Bank’s annual spring meetings take place this week in Washington, D.C….

A Closer Look at the Evolution of Brazil’s Overseas Investments

Roland Widmer — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 15:40:19 -0500

From 2001 to 2011, Brazil’s per capita GDP more than tripled. At the heart of this…

Unlocking Climate Finance: How Can Multilateral Agencies Better Leverage the Private Sector?

Aman Srivastava — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 08:32:37 -0500

The Doha negotiations that just concluded earlier this month have again drawn attention to the urgent need for climate…

Reflections on COP 18 in Doha: Negotiators Made Only Incremental Progress

Jennifer Morgan — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:09:27 -0500

This piece was written with analysis from Athena Ballesteros, Edward Cameron, Yamide Dagnet, Florence Daviet, Aarjan Dixit, Heather McGray, and Clifford Polycarp.

Expectations…

A Closer Look at China’s Overseas Investment

Tao Hu — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 11:58:43 -0500

When it comes to overseas development finance, China is definitely a country to watch. Due to the country’s unprecedented economic growth, China’s overseas…