Fuel for Change: World Bank Energy Policy: Rhetoric vs Reality

Type

Book

Authors

Ian Tellam

ISBN 10

1856497828

ISBN 13

9781856497824

Tags

Development & Growth, Environmental Economics, Environmental, Alternative & Renewable, Technology, European

Description

Written by well-informed thinkers in leading NGOs, this book seeks to add to the pressure on the World Bank to shift policy in favor of sustainable energy. Explaining the historical development of the bank's energy policies, the book outlines promising initiatives within the bank and explains why these are having little impact on mainstream energy lending. The bank's energy policies have actually led to an increase in fossil fuel power plants in the ten lowest income countries. While not engaging in an ideological attack on privatization, the authors are concerned with how the Bank has allowed regulatory processes to be hi-jacked by vested interests. - from Amzon

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