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Striking a better balance – The World Bank Group and Extractive Industries: the Final Report of the Extractive Industries Review

Publication  |  August 7, 2004

The World Bank Group annonced in 2000 it would conduct a comprehensive assessment of its activities in the extractive industries sector (oil, gas, and mining production EI). This included, the Extractive Industries Review, an independent stakeholder consultation process headed by Dr. Emil Salim (former state Minister for population and Environment, Indonesia). Dr. Salims report produced a number of recommendation for the institutions future involvment in the sector.

Week in Review: Action or Inaction?

Bankwatch in the media  |  July 19, 2024

Governments and citizens across South-east Europe find themselves stuck between action and inaction in choosing whether and how to deal …

A conversation between the mine and the factory: alternatives to the extractive model of the green transition

Event  |  December 22, 2023

Date: Tuesday, 12 December 2023  On 12 December the Debt Observatory in Globalisation held an international meeting altogether with a frontline defender in Colombia and Argentina, and workers of Collectivo Di Fabrica, from Florence (Italy).  The aim wa

Bishkek’s sustainable urban mobility development: A review of current policies and investments with recommendations for enhanced transformative impact

Publication  |  June 26, 2024

As Bishkek’s population grows, public transport in the Kyrgyz capital is clearly lagging far behind demand. A new research paper, produced in collaboration with our Kyrgyz partners Peshcom, maps the situation of sustainable urban mobility development in Bishkek.

Bishkek’s sustainable urban mobility development: A review of current policies and investments with recommendations for enhanced transformative impact (long version)

Publication  |  August 14, 2024

As Bishkek’s population grows, public transport in the Kyrgyz capital is clearly lagging far behind demand. A new research paper, produced in collaboration with our Kyrgyz partners Peshcom, maps the situation of sustainable urban mobility development in Bishkek.

Declaration of Civil Society and Indigenous Participants of the Regional Workshop of the World Bank’s Extractive Industries Review – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil April 16-19, 2002

Publication  |  April 19, 2002

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – April 16-19, 2002 We, the undersigned, would like to express our comments about the Latin American Regional Workshop of the Extractive Industries Review, and to highlight several important issues about the Review, keeping always within an analysis of whether or not the extractive industries have contributed to poverty alleviation in our countries. Limited focus and unequal participation and information

The World Bank Extractive Industries Review: Update and Interim Assessment

Publication  |  April 23, 2003

The Extractive Industries Review (EIR) is an independent consultative process initiated by the World Bank Group (Bank) to consider the Banks future role in the oil, gas and mining industries. Friends of the Earth has been closely monitoring the EIR process since its inception. In November 2002, FoE released a Midterm Assessment of the EIR that described the most critical issues that had arisen during the first year of the Review, and assessed the key challenges that lay ahead in the coming year.

Implementation of the Management Response to the Extractive Industries Review

Publication  |  December 9, 2005

This paper provides a report to the Board on progress in implementing the Management Response to the reports of the Extractive Industries review and the World Bank Groups’s own evaluations. It follows abn interim update to the Board in July 2005. The paper overviews key extractive industries (oil, gas, mining – EI) related developments in the last year, summarizes WBG activities in the sector in the year, and reviews specific progress in implementation of the MR.

Letter to EIB on the Bank consideration of the World Bank Extractive Industries Review in its energy portfolio

Publication  |  October 31, 2003

Mr Philippe Maystadt President European Investment Bank 100, bd Konrad Adenauer L-2950 Luxembourg Re: World Bank Extractive Industries Review Dear Philippe Maystadt,

Grounded in Washington: Extractive Industries Review Implementation in Europe and Central Asia (2004-2005)

Publication  |  December 13, 2005

“Grounded in Washington”, a report from Bankwatch and Bank Information Center, finds that the World Bank Group’s implementation of its Extractive Industries Review (EIR) in Europe and central Asia is neglecting a significant number of commitments which the Bank’s managment signed up to in October last year. Our on the ground investigations into six WBG supported extractive projects has revealed uneven EIR implementation.

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