Table of contents

The World Bank and Forests: a tissue of lies and deception
Ricardo Carrere, World Rainforest Movement & Marcus Colchester, Forest Peoples Programme

The Great ‘Community Forest Management’ Swindle: critical evaluation of an ongoing World Bank-financed project in Andhra Pradesh
Tom Griffiths, Forest Peoples Programme and Ravi Repprabagada & Bhanu Kalluri, Samata

Democratic Republic of Congo – after the war, the fight for the forest
Simon Counsell, The Rainforest Foundation UK

Box: Forestry Projects: Certification
Forest Peoples Programme and Rainforest Foundation UK

World Bank Shenanigans in Cambodia
Global Witness

Investing in Disaster: the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Palm Oil Plantations in Indonesia
Liz Chidley, Down to Earth

Box: A fig leaf of false transparency: the “External Advisory Group”
Marcus Colchester, Forest Peoples Programme and Simon Counsell, The Rainforest Foundation UK

The International Finance Corporation: luring increased private sector investment into forestry and other sectors at any price?
Korinna Horta, Environmental Defense

World Bank and International Finance Corporation (IFC) investment in the company Aracruz Celulosa S.A.
Letter to the President of the World Bank: Mr James D. Wolfensohn

Roads of Deforestation in Brazil: How soya and cattle are destroying the Amazon with the help of the IFC
Emily Caruso, Forest Peoples Programme

The Natural Habitats Policy: institutionalised derogation
Marcus Colchester, Forest Peoples Programme

Forests and Structural Adjustment: The World Bank’s steamrolling of stakeholders and its own Board
Korinna Horta, Environmental Defense

Box: The Invisible Sourcebook: a ‘critical’ omission
Forest Peoples Programme

The World Bank’s role in the creation of the carbon market: helping the rich become richer, and the poor grow poorer as fossil fuel subsidies keep flowing
Jutta Kill, Sinkswatch and Ben Pearson, CDMWatch

The GEF and Indigenous Peoples: some findings from a recent critical study
Tom Griffiths, Forest Peoples Programme

 

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