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Fuel for change : World Bank energy policy - rhetoric vs reality / edited by Ian Tellam.
Lippincott Library HD9502.D442 F83 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Energy development--Developing countries--Finance--Case studies.
- Energy development.
- Energy development--Europe, Eastern--Finance--Case studies.
- Renewable energy sources--Developing countries.
- Renewable energy sources.
- Finance.
- Developing countries.
- Renewable energy sources--Europe, Eastern.
- World Bank.
- Eastern Europe.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 208 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- World Bank energy policy
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Zed Books, [2000]
- Summary:
- Written by well-informed thinkers in leading NGOs, this book seeks to add to the pressure on the World Bank to shift policy in favor of sustainable energy. Explaining the historical development of the bank's energy policies, the book outlines promising initiatives within the bank and explains why these are having little impact on mainstream energy lending. The bank's energy policies have actually led to an increase in fossil fuel power plants in the ten lowest income countries. While not engaging in an ideological attack on privatization, the authors are concerned with how the Bank has allowed regulatory processes to be hi-jacked by vested interests.
- Contents:
- I The Burning Issues 1
- 1 Fuelling Change 3
- Biomass for survival in Africa 5
- Diverse energy resources in Asia 7
- Energy inefficiency in Central and Eastern Europe 8
- Increasing urbanization in Latin America 11
- A world of difference 14
- 2 The World Bank and Energy 18
- The shift in the Bank's energy policies 18
- The policies are controversial 20
- No shift towards sustainable energy 32
- The Bank versus civil society 36
- II World Bank Energy Policy in Practice: Country Studies 51
- 3 Cameroon 53
- Energy and economic crisis 53
- Song Loulou hydroelectric plant 55
- The Mape dam 56
- No effective framework for sustainable energy 56
- 4 Kenya 59
- A deteriorating situation 59
- The Energy Sector Reform and Power Development Project 63
- Gaps between policy and practice 65
- 5 Zimbabwe 68
- Energy and development in Zimbabwe 68
- A considerable energy endowment 69
- Alternatives to environmental damage 70
- The Bank's weak link to environmental issues 73
- 6 China 81
- Opportunities for China's power sector 81
- Social and environmental challenges 83
- Sustainable energy options 85
- 7 India 87
- The Indian power sector in crisis 87
- The first and one of the largest borrowers 89
- Recent World Bank projects 92
- The Asian Development Bank in India 93
- The 'energy shortage psychosis' 94
- 8 Indonesia 97
- Indonesia's power sector 97
- Time to restructure? 99
- Besai hydropower plant 101
- Environmental degradation and room for improvement 102
- 9 The Philippines 105
- Energy in the Philippines 105
- The importance of the banks 107
- The Quezon power plant 107
- Changes afoot? 112
- 10 Bulgaria 115
- Energy shortages and high import bills 115
- The World Bank's 'Energy I' project 116
- Price reform is the stumbling-block 119
- 11 Hungary 121
- A high degree of uncertainty 121
- Sustainable energy left on the shelf 123
- The World Bank's key role 125
- 12 Lithuania 127
- Import dependence 127
- The Bank's focus on energy supply 129
- Accelerating towards the market 131
- 13 Ukraine 133
- The highest energy intensity in the world 133
- Sustainable options not fully considered 134
- Electricity Market Rehabilitation Project 135
- Heat Supply and Energy Efficiency Project 136
- 14 Brazil 140
- Energy in transition 140
- A chance for sustainable energy? 143
- The banks and market restructuring 145
- 15 Colombia 149
- Institutions in reform 149
- Lack of effort for the support of sustainable energy 153
- The banks' shift to the private sector 157
- 16 Mexico 159
- Energy sources 159
- New regulatory frameworks 160
- Enterprise and market restructuring 162
- Lack of finance for sustainable energy 163
- Bank failure on social and environmental commitments 167
- 17 Uruguay
- The institutions 170
- Energy sources 171
- Market deregulation, regional integration 171
- Lack of official concern for sustainable energy 173
- Scope for improvement? 175
- Bank focus on expansion 177
- III Energy Policy for the Future 181
- 18 Which Way Forward? 183
- The rhetoric of the World Bank's sustainable energy principles 185
- The reality of the World Bank's energy investments 186
- Fuel for change 188
- Appendix The Multilateral Development Banks and Energy 191
- Boxes
- 2.1 Local communities fight for public power in the USA 24
- 2.2 Controversy surrounds UK energy privatization 25
- 2.3 Integrated resource planning and demand-side management 26
- 2.4 The Climate Convention and Kyoto Protocol 44
- 2.1 World Bank lending for the energy sector, 1980-97 34
- 2.2 Top ten countries attracting private participation in electricity, 1990-97 35.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [201]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 185649781X
- 1856497828
- OCLC:
- 43569148
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