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The European Bank
for Reconstruction and Development:
Fueling Climate Change

An analysis of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development fossil fuel project lending since
the 1992 Earth Summit

A collaborative study authored by the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (Institute for Policy Studies, U.S.) and the International Trade Information Service, (U.S.)

Version 1, November 27, 1997. IPS

 

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the following individuals for their support and contributions to this report: Doug Norlen, Dafna Laurie, Andreas Strotmann, Fiona Dove, Jim Barnes, Daniel Von Moltke, and Ian Tellam.

 

About the Authors

The Sustainable Energy and Economy Network, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies (Washington) and the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), works in partnership with non-governmental organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia on environment and development issues. SEEN has produced three prior reports on multilateral development banks: "The World Bank and the G-7: Changing the Climate for Business;" "The World Bank's Juggernaut: The Coal-Fired Industrial Colonization of the Indian State of Orissa;"and "Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest: Opportunity or Liability for the World's Poorest Women?" Network coordinator Daphne Wysham is co-editor of a book of essays on the World Bank, Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternatives tothe Global Economic Order (Pluto, 1995). In addition to research andadvocacy work, SEEN is working with village women in rural India to develop the "Women's Power Project," a model of sustainable development that incorporates women's empowerment, renewable energy, forest regeneration, and micro enterprise. For more information, please contact:

Daphne Wysham,
SEEN/IPS, 733-15th St., NW, Suite 1020, Washington, DC 20005.
Phone: 202-234-9382.
 Fax: 202-387-7915.
 E-mail: dwysham@seen.org

The International Trade Information Service, a project of the non-profit Tides Center, was formed in 1995 to investigate and expose the social and environmental impacts of international trade. Previous reports involving ITIS research include three ground-breaking reports on the production and trade of ozone-depleting chemicals (two in collaboration with Ozone Action, one with Greenpeace International); "The World Bank's Juggernaut," a collaboration with SEEN which exposes how multilateral and bilateral aid, combined with transnational corporate interests, is turning a region of India into a "toxic colony" designed to provide G-7 countries with cheap commodities; "The World Bank and the G-7: Changing the Climate for Business" also a collaborative effort with SEEN; and "A Day in the Life of U.S.-Indonesia Trade" an independent report on the social and environmental repercussions of a typical day's commerce between two countries. ITIS also provides background reports for numerous non-profit organizations on a wide variety of subjects. For more information, please contact:

Jim Vallette,
ITIS, P.O. Box 658, Southwest Harbor, ME, 04609, USA.
 Phone: 1-207-244-3106.
 Fax: 1-800-861-9611.
 E-mail: itis@igc.apc.org.

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