The World Bank and sustainable development : legal essays

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The World Bank and sustainable development : legal essays

by David Freestone

(Legal aspects of sustainable development, v. 14)

Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013

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The World Bank and Sustainable Development: Legal Essays collects works from the past ten years by David Freestone, former Deputy General Counsel and Senior Adviser at the World Bank. The essays offer a unique perspective founded on the author's years of experience at the World Bank. They cover a wide-range of topics, including the Bank's Sustainable Development and its Climate Change agendas as well as its project based Environmental and Social Safeguard policies, highlighting the evolution of the pioneering role of the Bank's Inspection Panel.

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Preface Roberto Danino: former General Counsel, The World Bank Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. The World Bank and Sustainable Development Postscript by Dr Siobhan McInerney-Lankford 2. The Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies of the World Bank and the evolving Role of the Inspection Panel Postscript by Alberto Ninio 3.The World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund: Mobilising New Resources for Sustainable Development. 4.The World Bank's Extractive Industries Review (with Roberto Danino) 5.The Establishment, Role and Evolution of the Global Environment Facility: Operationalising Common but Differentiated Responsibility? 6.The Role of the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility in the Implementation of the Regime of the Law of the Sea Convention. 7.The World Bank and Climate Change. Appendices: The Instrument of the Global Environment Facility The World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies The Inspection Panel Resolution and the 1996 and 1999 'Clarifications. List of Cases before the Panel Resolution establishing the Prototype Carbon Fund

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