18 May 2010
More than 100 civil society organizations from around the globe signed on to a letter demanding an end to all fossil fuel projects at the World Bank with aims other than energy access for the poor. Until the Bank halts the financing of such projects, bringing them into line with the G20 and APEC pledges to phase out fossil fuel subsidies, these CSOs will oppose the Bank's recapitalization ask.
read the letter
Civil society statement on energy access and public financing of fossil fuels, May 6, 2010 (PDF, 124 KB)