Stories: International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE)

This piece originally appeared on the World Bank Climate Change Blog.

An update on the role of climate finance in the international climate negotiations.

The World Bank must systematically address issues of environmental and social sustainability in its mainstream investments.

Extractive industries explore the benefits of acquiring consent for their projects.

Read WRI’s formal comments to the World Bank Group on its Energy Strategy Review.

Despite the increase in sustainable energy initiatives by Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs), a limited number of loans financed by the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) consistently support sustainable energy investments in developing countries.

The World Bank, MDBs, and Low Carbon Development

Multilateral Development Banks can play a leading role in promoting more sustainable energy options.

Thousands of finance ministers and central bankers from around the world descend on D.C.

South Africa’s plans for a new coal power plant bring up difficult decisions for the World Bank.

On 23-25 February 2010, the World Resources Institute International Financial Flows and Environment project hosted a civil society climate finance strategy session at the Airlie Conference Center in Warrenton, Virginia.