Sustainable Energy and Economy Network
The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network works in partnership with citizens groups nationally and globally on environment, human rights and development issues with a particular focus on energy, climate change, environmental justice, gender equity, and economic issues, particularly as these play out in North-South relations.
Report
Dirty is the New Clean
October 9 - A Critique of the World Bank’s Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change. By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
World Bank Group Fossil Fuel Financing, 2004-2008
October 8 - From the report "Dirty is the New Clean," new facts about the World Bank Group’s lending to coal, oil, and gas which is up 94% from 2007. By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Commentary
The World Bank Takes the Money and Runs from Chad
September 15 - After funding a predictable boondoggle of a pipeline, the international lender hightails it out of an impoverished African nation. By Daphne Wysham, published in Common Dreams and Foreign Policy In Focus.
Op-Ed
Gore’s Challenge Puts the Heat On
August 16 - Gore's call for the United States to source all its electricity from clean, renewable energy within a decade is truly revolutionary. By Janet Redman, published in Evening Telegram (Herkimer, NY), Evening Times (Little Falls, NY), The Asheville Citizen-Times, The Bemidji Pioneer, The Burlington Record, The Kenosha News, The Medford Daily Mercury, The MetroWest Daily News, The Milford Daily News, The News Messenger, The Wayne Independent, The Wise County Messenger.
Magazine Article
The Waste-Pickers of Delhi
August 4 - The original Delhi recyclers have turned garbage into cash for decades. Now, a carbon-credit-generating incinerator may put them out of business. By Daphne Wysham, published in Mother Jones.
Magazine Article
Why Carbon Offsets Backfire
August 3 - With a city motto of "Exclusively Industrial," the town of Vernon was already a pollution magnet. Then offsets made it worse. By Daphne Wysham, published in Mother Jones.
Op-Ed
Missed Opportunity in Hokkaido
July 13 - G8 leaders' seclusion at the Lake Toyako resort was symbolic of their larger isolation from global public opinion on fighting global warming. By Janet Redman, published in Celsias.
Op-Ed
Brilliant Plans to Destroy the Planet: The World Bank Tackles Climate Change
July 11 - The World Bank's new Climate Investment Funds will do nothing to help the climate; they'll just give the bank more clout. By Janet Redman, published in AlterNet.
Op-Ed
Bush's Last Chance on Climate
July 3 - At the G-8 Summit, Bush can help the developing world bear the brunt of climate damage caused by the developing world. But don't hold your breath. By Janet Redman, published in The Nation.
Letter to Editor
Opportunities for a Low-Carbon Economy
May 21 - Developing countries have long demanded financial resources to deal with a warming planet, and they now have one in the UN adaptation fund, By Janet Redman, published in The Guardian.
Report
Politica Energetica en America Latina: Presente Y Futuro
May 10 - Crticas Y Propuestas de los Pueblos By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
World Bank: Climate Profiteer
April 10 - The World Bank irresponsibly and recklessly continues to perpetuate the world’s dependence on climate-altering fossil fuels while profiting from carbon trading, a dubious remedy to climate change. By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Commentary
The World Bank’s Carbon Deals
April 10 - As it outsources emissions cuts, the World Bank is dealing from both ends of the climate change deck. By Janet Redman, published in Common Dreams and Foreign Policy In Focus.
Commentary
World Bank Climate Profiteering
March 31 - As it tries to paint its image green, the Bank backs an Indian coal plant being built by the Tata Group. By Shakuntala Makhijani and Daphne Wysham, published in AlterNet, Common Dreams, Foreign Policy In Focus, Green Left Weekly, The New York Times Dot Earth Blog.
Op-Ed
Hoodwinked in Bali on Carbon Credits
December 12 - The current climate change framework pits rich against poor, exploits indigenous peoples and benefits industries that are the biggest offenders. By Daphne Wysham, published in The Nation.
Magazine Article
Democracy Rising
June 1 - Grassroots movements change the face of power. By Nadia Martinez, published in YES! Magazine.
Report
En Sentido Contrario desde Rio
December 3 - El Camino del Banco Mundial Hacia La Catastrofe Climatica By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Wrong Turn from Rio
December 1 - The World Bank's Road to Climate Catastrophe By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Tug of War
April 1 - The Winners and Losers of World Bank Fossil Fuel Finance By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Destabilizing Investment in the Americas II
March 2 - The InterAmerican Development Bank Fossil Fuel Financing 1992-2004 By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Pillars of Power
October 30 - How the free trade agenda promotes dirty energy. By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Sustainable Development North and South
October 30 - Climate change policy coherence in global trade and financial flows. By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
The World Bank and Fossil Fuels: At the Crossroad
September 22 - World Bank Group Projects related to fossil fuels from Sept. 1, 2002 to Sept. 15, 2003 By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Crude Vision
August 13 - How oil interests obscured US Government focus on chemical weapons use by Saddam Hussein. By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
The World Bank and Fossil Fuels: A Clear and Present Danger
September 10 - The World Bank group can damage many aspects in sociey as well as climate using its fossil fuels favored way to tackel global warming By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Transnational corporate beneficiaries of World Bank Group fossil fuel projects,1992-August 2002
September 3 - In the globaliztion game of World Bank financing for fossil fuels, the biggest winners are some of the largest transnational corporations. A list about the facts of these fossil fuel welfare kings from 1992 to August 2002 is exposed in this report. By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Enron's Pawns: How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron's Globalization Game
March 22 - Enron's collapse calls into question the policy of energy deregulation and so long as the World Bank, IMF, WTO, U.S. Government and corporations continue to advance this agenda of energy and power deregulation, all signs suggest that future By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Credit Where It's Due
October 2 - The Role of Export Credit Agencies in Supporting Sustainable Energy By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
Chad-Cameroon Pipeline
April 28 - Chevron’s alleged human rights abuses in the Niger Delta and involvement in the Chad-Cameroon pipeline consortium highlights the need for the World Bank to screen for human rights abuses when it makes loans or investments. By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
OPIC, Ex-Im & Climate Change: Business as Usual?
April 28 - An Analysis of U.S. Government Support for Fossil Fueled Development Abroad, 1992-98 By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Fueling Climate Change
December 2 - How the European multilateral development bank is contributing to climate change in the former Soviet Union By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.
Report
The World Bank and the G-7: Changing the Earth's Climate or Business
August 26 - An overview of World Bank fossil fuel financing from 1992-97 By the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network project.