Topic: world bank

WRI submitted comments to the Climate Investment Funds (CIF) Trust Fund Committees suggesting ways to improve the CIFs Results Frameworks.

Can climate financing create transformational change?

Last week at the UN Convention on Biodiversity, the World Bank launched a new program that aims to put a value on a country’s ecosystems in the same way a country measures its national income and product accounts, or GNP and GDP.

After falling behind other development organizations, the World Bank now has a chance to update its environmental and social safeguard policies.

Read WRI’s recommendations for the International Finance Corporation’s (IFC) environmental and social sustainability framework.

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.

An update on climate adaptation efforts in the international climate negotiations.

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.

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.