Sixteen faith groups have sent a letter to World Bank President Jim Yong Kim, calling on the Bank to adopt a Zero Deforestation Policy: The Paris climate agreement is meant not only to begin a transformation of the world’s energy systems, but also to save the world’s forests. Dozens of countries put forests at the center …
BIC recently published two reports analyzing the impact of World Bank and IFC finance on forests and forest peoples around the world. These publications outline the findings of BIC’s review of World Bank Group public and private sector lending from the perspective of investments both within the forest sector, and in the primary sectors that …
A group of Nobel Peace Prize winning women (The Nobel Women’s Initiative) sent a scathing letter to World Bank President Kim detailing concerns they have with Safeguards draft.
Photo: Simone D. McCourtie / World Bank (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) (July 31, 2014) Over widespread objections from civil society, the World Bank’s board of directors gave a green light yesterday to a weak new set of rules to replace its existing environmental and social “safeguard” policies. The proposed policies appear to reverse a generation of …
The Ford Foundation recently investigated the link between forest rights and climate change in Latin America. According to a recent report, stopping deforestation and reforesting could reduce greenhouse gas emissons by 30 percent. Giving forest rights back to the traditional communities, who depend on these forests for their livelihood, would decrease deforesting and thereby reduce greenhouse …
A leaked draft of the World Bank’s proposed new Safeguard Policies appears to reverse a generation of gains.
The Bank Information Center (BIC), in collaboration with the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests (AMPB), held the Second International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards on March 15th and 16th in San Jose, Costa Rica, with broad participation by Mesoamerican indigenous and community leaders. The event was the second workshop held by BIC in …
The Bank Information Center, in collaboration with the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests, will hold the “Second International Workshop on Social and Environmental Safeguards in Indigenous Territories and Forest Communities of Mesoamerica” in San Jose, Costa Rica on March 15th and 16th. The main objective of the workshop is to facilitate discussions of regional safeguards principles …
The Bank Information Center, in collaboration with the Mesoamerican Alliance of Peoples and Forests and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), recently published a case study on indigenous peoples’ participation in REDD+ preparation in Costa Rica. The study, “Facilitating Indigenous Involvement in REDD+: Early Engagement and Consultation in Costa Rica,” presents both original research …
The Mesoamerican Pre-Congress of Areas Protected by Indigenous Peoples, an initiative by the Mesoamerican Alliance of People and Forests, will take place on March 17th and 18th in San Jose, Costa Rica. With the goal of assessing, valuing and projecting the contributions of indigenous peoples to conservation of protected areas in Mesoamerica, the Pre-Congress seeks …