Stories: International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE)

Can climate financing create transformational change?

The UN High Level Advisory Group on Climate Change Financing (AGF) released a new report today to mobilize $100 billion in international cli

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.

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.