How the World Bank's energy framework sells the climate and poor people short

Friends of the Earth International, September 2006: For many decades the World Bank's energy lending has focused on centralized, large-scale, grid-based thermal and hydropower projects and on the privatization of public power utilities. This report shows that the World Bank's energy portfolio still fails to reap the double dividend of renewable energy technologies that would fight both poverty and climate change.

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