The World Bank and the G-7:
Still Changing the Earth's Climate for Business
1997-98

Authored by the Sustainable Energy and Economy Network (Institute for Policy Studies, USA) and the International Trade Information Service (USA)

Version 1.3, December 1998

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Key Findings

II. About the Authors, Acknowledgments

III. Glossary of Common Terms

IV. Executive Summary
V. From Rio to Buenos Aires: World Bank Fossil Fuel Lending

• The Byrd Resolution
• The Global Climate Coalition
• The World Bank's Rebuttal
• Conflict of Interest? (View Leaked World Bank Documents)
• World Bank Fossil Fuel Investments: 1997-98
• Conclusions and Recommendations

VI. Summary Tables

a. Recently Approved or Pending Fossil Fuel-oriented World Bank Projects

b. Estimated Lifetime Emissions from World Bank-financed projects since the Earth Summit.

c. World Bank Financing of Fossil Fuel Extraction, Distribution and Power Projects since the Earth Summit

VII. Case Studies (Recent and pending World Bank fossil fuel loans)

a. China Coal-Fired Power

b. India Solar Thermal Power Power Plant

c. Nigeria to Ghana Gas Pipeline

d. Thailand Power Plants

VIII. Inventory of Recent and Pending World Bank Fossil Fuel Projects (Sector overviews, and project summaries and discussions)

a. Oil and Gas Production (includes detailed discussions of Caspian Sea pipeline and Chad oil development)

b. Coal Mines

c. Fossil Fuel Power Plants

d. Fossil Fueled Power Sector Reforms

APPENDICES

A. Index of G-7 Corporations Involved in Recent and Pending World Bank Fossil Fuel Projects

B. Emissions estimates methodology

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