IV. 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

A. Recently Approved or Pending Fossil Fuel-Oriented World Bank Projects

POWER PLANTS

FOSSIL FUEL FIELDS, MINES & PIPELINES

NOTES

TBD = To be determined. International procurement of major equipment and/or Ownership are likely.
n/a = Data not available.
T&D = Transmission and Distribution (electricity or heating).
(Proposed board date) - Note: The Bank's MOS and PIDs list tentative board dates for certain projects; however, in many cases, board dates have passed without any decisions being made.
(a) CO2 emissions from the Nigeria to Ghana pipeline project assumes flow rate of 160 million cubic feet per day and consumption by Takoradi power plant. In our previous report (1997), we estimated Takoradi's emissions to be 23,832,000 metric tons, which are deducted here from the pipeline project's estimated 61,188,192 metric tons of ultimate CO2 emissions at the predicted flow rate for 20 years.
(b) - The Bank's pipeline project form key pieces of an archipelago-circling pipeline complex which will tap into all of Indonesia's considerable gas fields. The national proved reserves are thus included in these calculations.
(d) - This recently-financed or pending project follows upon a previous World Bank loan or credit for related or same project. Emissions were tabulated in our previous report, and, to avoid duplication, are not repeated here.
(e) - Given that the Bank is facilitating the privatization of Russia's coal mines, it could be fair to attribute some share of Russia's emissions from its reserves of over 100 billion metric tons of coal to the World Bank. However, since the Bank is not directly financing mining equipment acquisition or foreign direct investment in any particular mines, as far as we can determine, we have chosen not to include the estimated 271 billion metric tons of CO2 that will be released by the burning of Russia's reserves in these calculations.
(f) - While the Bank is proposing support for the management of "viable mines" in Ukraine, it has not specified which mines will be involved, so future emissions can not be calculated at this time.
(g) - Several Bank projects for general support of energy and power sectors are omitted from this table. The omitted projects do not have fossil fuel power generation expansion or privatization within their scope, to our knowledge.
(h) - Based upon five years of burning oil and 15 years of burning gas.
(i) - Rio Tinto, co-owner of the proposed Sengwa power plant, plans to exhaust all of its reserves in the Sengwa coalfield (924 million tons) in this station. Given the stated plans of the plant's owners, we have opted to calculate CO-2 emissions from the company's coalfield reserves, rather than limiting the projection to 20 years of plant operation at initial planned capacity.
(j) - Based upon 1700 MW coal-fired power (Krabi 300MW, Ratchaburi 1400MW, which will generate combined 20-year emissions of 271,945,600 tons) and 2400MW gas-fired power (Wang Noi 600MW and Ratchaburi 1800MW, leading to emissions of 190,761,600 tons). Additional Bank-fueled emissions are likely to flow from independent power producers, which will be linked to the national grid with the assistance of Bank financing under this package, but exact connections are not clear from available Bank documents.
(k) - This pending loan to Vietnam follows upon a 1996 loan to the same power plant. We accounted for 450MW of gas-burning capacity in our 1997 report; the amount in this column accounts for the 250MW balance.

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

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CO2 emissions (million metric tons)

Note: The above table estimates total emissions from World Bank financing for fossil fuel extraction, distribution, and power plants from July 1992 to September 1998. In order to avoid double counting emissions from power projects that probably are fueled by Bank-financed fields, mines or pipelines, the following power plants are not included in the grand total tables: India coal-fired power plants (Balagargh, Ib Valley, Tamil Nadu and Rain Calcining), Uch gas power plant in Pakistan, and Songo Songo gas power plant in Tanzania. The estimated 306,545,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions (of which 71,083,000 is gas-based and 235,462,000 is coal-based) to be produced by these plants over the next 20 years are a subset of the Coal India, Sui gas field, and Songo Songo gas field estimated emissions. Potential double-countings between field production and pipeline projects are avoided in previous tables in this and the initial report.

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

(a) This category includes financing for energy privatization and capacity expansion schemes which are dominated by fossil fuel-burning power plants not included in the carbon dioxide emission calculations.