Take Action
Support BIC's campaign on the World Bank and Climate Change. You can get involved by:
- Understanding the impact of WBG lending in your country through its policy and investment loans, technical assistance and country strategy. What types of energy projects are the World Bank and the IFC supporting in your country? Are climate change concerns highlighted, or even mentioned in the Country Partnership Strategy?
- Preparing case studies of the negative impacts of WBG energy lending in your country that can be used to influence the WB’s Board of Directors who will decide on the new energy strategy.
- Preparing proposals for what type of energy projects the WBG should be supporting in your country, including renewable energy and energy conservation projects.
- Identifying the Executive Director who represents your country on the Board of Directors at the WB and initiating a dialogue with him or her.
If you would like to get involved with BIC's Energy Strategy Campaign, please contact Mark Rentschler at .
recent Civil Society Analysis
Cancun Climate Chronicles, BIC's blog of the events of the COP-16 meeting in Cancun
World Bank Group Energy Sector Financing Update, by Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, November 2010 (PDF, 372KB)
Energy for Our Common Future, Christian Aid and Aprodev, October 2010
Energy poverty: NGOs question how the World Bank will bring power to the powerless, by Chad Dobson and Rebecca Harris, The Huffington Post, October 11, 2010 (Huffington Post website)
World Bank Group Energy Financing: Energy for the Poor? By Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs and Elizabeth Bast with Stephen Kretzmann, Oil Change International, October 2010 (PDF, 1.24MB)
Investing in renewable energy for Egypt's future, by Amr Mohsen and Amy Ekdawi, Al-Masry Al-Youm, June 22, 2010 (Al-Masry Al-Youm)
Civil society lights the World Bank's path to clean energy at Spring Meetings, by Chad Dobson and Rebecca Harris, May 3, 2010 (Huffington Post website)
BIC's Model Energy Strategy, April 2010 (PDF, 816 KB)
Letter WB Public Consultations Energy Strategy (PDF, 121KB) (Spanish)
COMENTARIOS DE ORGANIZACIONES DE LA SOCIEDAD CIVIL A LA PROPUESTA DE ESTRATEGIA ENERGÉTICA DEL GRUPO DEL BANCO MUNDIAL, CONTENIDA EN SU SÍNTESIS SECTORIAL DE OCTUBRE DE 2009 (PDF, 166KB) (Spanish)
World Bank's Energy Portfolio:Claiming Sustainability amid contradictions (PDF, 751KB) (Spanish)
Investing in sustainable energy futures: Multilateral development banks' investments in energy policy, by Smita Nakhooda and Athena Ballesteros, World Resources Institure, April 2010 (PDF, 2.8 MB)
World Bank Group financing for fossil fuels FY2008-FY2010, by Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, Bank Information Center (PDF, 1.47MB)
Fuelling contradictions: The World Bank's energy lending and climate change, by Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, BWP, CRBM, and Urgewald, April 2010 (PDF, 1.47 MB)
Development Funding Done Right: How to Ensure Multilateral Development Banks Finance Clean and Renewable Energy Projects to Combat Global Warming, by Kari Manlove, Andrew Light, Kate Gordon, and Richard Caperton, Center for American Progress, March 2010 (PDF, 393KB)
Coal for Christmas: The World Bank is still subsidizing one of the world's dirtiest fuels, by Phil Radford, Foreign Policy, December 22, 2009 (Foreign Policy)
The human rights dimensions of the World Bank's energy policy, by Romina Picolotti and Jorge Daniel Taillant, December 14, 2009 (BIC website)
Need for stronger commitment to renewable energy for poverty alleviation, by Frank Muramuzi, National Association of Professional Environmentalists, December 14, 2009 (BIC website)
The World Bank and Eskom: Banking on climate destruction, by David Hallowes, groundWork, December 10, 2009 (PDF, 925 KB)
World Bank Group Energy Sector Lending Trends – FY2009, by Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, Bank Information Center, December 3, 2009 (BIC website)
Climate financing and the World Bank – The IMF and the World Bank to the rescue? by Barbara Unmuessig, Heinrich Boell Foundation, November 6, 2009 (BIC website)
Doubling the Damage: World Bank Climate Investment Funds Undermine Climate and Gender Justice, February 2009 (Gender Action website)
Foreclosing the Future: Coal, Climate and International Public Finance, April 22, 2009 (Environmental Defense Fund website)
World Bank Energy Sector Lending: Encouraging the World’s Addiction to Fossil Fuels (Presentation), By Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, Bank Information Center, March 2009 (PPT, 1,009KB)
World Bank energy sector lending: Encouraging the world's addiction to fossil fuels, By Heike Mainhardt-Gibbs, Bank Information Center, February 2009 (PDF 3055.7 KB)
Gender and Climate Change Finance: Case Study from the Philippines, By Athena Peralta, WEDO and Heinrich Boll Stiftung, November 2008 (PDF, 555KB)
Why the World Bank is Still Far From Being an Environment Bank, by Lies Craeynest and Daisy Streatfeild, World Wildlife Fund, June 2008 (PDF, 466 KB)
Correcting the World's Greatest Market Failure: Climate Change and the Multilateral Development Banks, By Smita Nakhooda, June 2008 (WRI website)
World Bank & climate Links
World Bank Climate Investment Funds page
World Bank Climate Investment Funds Key Documents
World Bank Carbon Finance page
Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) webpage
Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change (SFDCC) page
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) page
World Bank Energy links
World Bank Energy home page
World Bank regional energy pages
Papers and Briefings
Briefing Paper for BIC's World Bank Energy Strategy Campaign (Acrobat pdf 221 KB)
Poverty and Climate Change: Reducing the Vulnerability of the Poor through Adaptation (OECD website)
Worldwatch Institute: State of the World 2009: Into a Warming World (World Watch website)
ActionAid: We Know What We Need: South Asian Women Speak Out on Climate Change Adaption November 2007 (Action Aid website)
NGO Report: World Bank Energy Framework Sells Climate and Poor People Short, September 18, 2006 (BIC website)