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.
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World Bank: Climate Profiteer
- Released April 10, 2008
After years of waning global influence, the World Bank has attached itself to the climate crisis like a patient on life support. Facing a crisis of legitimacy over its failed economic policy proscriptions and long track record of boondoggle projects, the aging institution is attempting to give itself a makeover. No longer is it just the Bank whose “dream is a world free of poverty.” Now it is the Bank that can solve the climate crisis. The facelift includes a $2 billion portfolio of trust funds that channel carbon finance – money used to buy cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from projects in developing countries – from polluting industrialized countries in the global North to some of the most ecologically destructive industries in the global South.
This report exposes the World Bank for what it is – and names it as such – a “climate change profiteer.” The World Bank irresponsibly and recklessly continues to perpetuate the world’s dependence on climate-altering fossil fuels while profiting from carbon trading, which is a dubious remedy to climate change.
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En Sentido Contrario desde Rio
- Released December 3, 2004
This report is the Spanish translation of our report, "Wrong Turn from Rio: The World Bank's Road to Climate Catastrophe." See below for summary.
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Wrong Turn from Rio
- Released December 1, 2004
SEEN's researchers conduct their most comprehensive review to date of the role of the World Bank in sabotaging every attempt over more than a decade by actors inside and outside the Bank to address its disproportionate impact on the global climate.
Janet Redman
Daphne Wysham
Oscar Reyes
