Stories: International Financial Flows and the Environment (IFFE)

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.

The World Bank and other Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) are revising their environmental strategies for development planning.

Here is a summary of a civil society consultation WRI had with the World Bank Group’s (WBG) Independent Evaluation Group (IEG), on the IEG’s review of the effectiveness of the WBG environmental and social safeguards.

Athena Ballesteros explains how international climate finance could make or break a deal in Copenhagen.

From September to November 2009, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) is conducting an initial scoping of issues to improve in its updated sustainability policies.

WRI submitted comments to the US Treasury on key issues the World Bank must address during its World Bank Energy Strategy review.