IEG

Climate change threatens to derail development, even as development pumps ever-greater quantities of carbon dioxide into an atmosphere already polluted with two centuries of Western emissions.

This Evaluation Brief brings attention to World Bank investments at risk.

In November 2006 the World Bank, the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) held a conference in Paris to discuss recent disaster operations of multilateral and bilateral development aid institutions and NGOs, highlighting aspects that would facilit

The purpose of this review by the Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) of the World Bank is to inform the efforts to scale up the Bank's support for renewable energy by evaluating the performance of the Bank's current portfolio and the extent to which strategic objectives were achieved.