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button January 21, 2002, final version of the letter sent to Emil Salim on the World Bank Extractive Industries Review
button December 20, 2001, Issues Analysis: The World Bank Group’s Extractive Industries Review; Actions Speak Louder than Words
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November 2001, A civil society rebuttal to the World Bank's "Response to Four Demands from the Mobilization for Global Justice"

button October 18, 2001, Letter from James Bond, Director, World Bank Mining Department, in response to October 8 letter from SEEN
button October 8, 2001, SEEN letter to World Bank Group President concerning extractive industry support
button June 2, 2000, SEEN's Bulletin on Fossil Fuel Projects and Development Aid, Business as Usual at the World Bank
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March 21, 2000: SEEN's Bulletin on Fossil Fuel Projects and Development Aid, Burning Bright in India: Tigers or Coal?

button March 20, 2000, Climate Action Network (CAN) sign on letter to the World Bank on the Prototype Carbon Fund (PCF)
button March 9, 2000, Sign-on letter to President Clinton during his delegation to India asking that he help protect  the tigers and their habitat in India from the invasion of coal mining that is being promoted by the World Bank
button The Jharkand Declaration
button February 14, 2000, NGO Recommendations Regarding Climate Change Issue
for the OECD Working Party on Export Credits and Credit Guarantees
button December 9, 1999: SEEN comments on the draft Energy Operations Policy of the  European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) by the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network at the Institute for Policy Studies Comments on the process of public consultation
button December 3, 1999: Letter from Dennis J. Kucinich to James Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank
button A letter presented in Buenos Aires to Melinda Kimble, Acting Assistant Secretary, US State Department by a coalition of NGOs; November 5, 1999
button November 4, 1999, SEEN's Bulletin on Fossil Fuel Projects and Development Aid, Sink or Swim, Last day of Bonn climate negotiations for COP-5
button October 13, 1999: A letter to President Clinton From Congresswoman McKinney on Secretary Albright's trip to Nigeria
button "Oil for Nothing," A report from a delegation of U.S. NGO's in Nigeria in September 1999.
button The World Bank and the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline:   Leaked Memos
button July 21, 1999:  Access leaked World Bank documents
button Representative Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) circulated a letter in Congress requesting hearings on the role of Chevron and other U.S. multinationals in human rights abuses in the countries they operate; March 5, 1999
button "Putting the ETHIC into EFIC" (this is a .pdf file)
A new report by the Mineral Policy Institute and AID/WATCH. It exposes the sorry record of EFIC, Australia's Export Credit Agency, compares it to other ECAs and calls for some timely and substantial reforms: to be open and accountable, and socially, economically and environmentally sustainable.
button Documents leaked in November 1998 at Buenos Aires from the Business Roundtable
button November 1998, SEEN's Bulletin on Fossil Fuel Projects and Development Aid,
Profiting from pollution: International lender leads developing world toward 
fossil fuels and global warming
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button Aarhus Declaration
button August 26, 1998: World Bank response to SEEN's action alert on China and Coal
button June 19, 1998: Letter from Congressmen Kucinich and Waxman to President Clinton on the World Bank and climate change
button June 3, 1998: Senator Lieberman's letter on the World Bank and climate change
button April 6, 1998: SEEN letter to World Bank
button 1998 G-8 statement on International Financial Institutions and Climate Change
button World Bank's Kyoto statement on climate change
button U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation guidelines on greenhouse gas emissions
arrow IPS comments on OPIC's guidelines
button Oilwatch Declaration on climate change, fossil fuels and public funding
button Wolfensohn's 1997 Earth Summit statement on the World Bank and climate change
button World Bank's rebuttal to 1997 SEEN report
button SEEN's 1997 response to World Bank's rebuttal
button SEEN's fact sheet on World Bank's carbon backcasting study
button The Climate Action Network statement delivered at Buenos Aires, which includes references to international financial institutions, flexibility mechanisms, and climate change.
button Microcredit Under The Microscope
Wanted: microlenders who empower the poor rather than maintain them on the treadmill of debt. Feature, Himal South Asia
button Wolfensohn's 1995 speech on climate change

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