The World Bank and sustainable development : legal essays / by David Freestone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Freestone, David.

Series:

Legal Aspects of Sustainable Development 14.

Legal aspects of sustainable development ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable development--Law and legislation.

Sustainable development.

World Bank.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (387 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. Other essays look at the establishment and subsequent evolution of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the design and implementation of the innovative Prototype Carbon Fund – now the basis of a billion greenhouse gas reduction portfolio. Updated by current Bank Staff members, together these seven legal essays represent a seminal body of work from a uniquely qualified voice in international environmental law.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

Chapter 1 The World Bank and Sustainable Development

Chapter 2 The Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies of the World Bank and The Evolving Role of the Inspection Panel

Chapter 3 The World Bank’s Prototype Carbon Fund: Mobilizing New Resources for Sustainable Development

Chapter 4 The World Bank’s Extractive Industries Review (with Roberto Dañino)

Chapter 5 The Establishment, Role and Evolution of the Global Environment Facility

Chapter 6 The Role of the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility in the Implementation of the Regime of the Convention on the Law of the Sea

Chapter 7 The World Bank and Climate Change

1. Instrument for the Establishment of the Restructured Global Environment Facility

2. The World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies

3. Resolution Establishing the World Bank Inspection Panel and its 1996 and 1999 Clarifications

4. Summary of Cases before World Bank Inspection Panel

5. Amended and Restated Instrument Establishing the Prototype Carbon Fund

Index.

Notes:

Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 3, 2012).

ISBN:

1-283-85412-0

90-04-20233-1

OCLC:

823386247

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004202337 DOI