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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786437203321

Autore

Freestone David

Titolo

The World Bank and sustainable development [[electronic resource] ] : legal essays / / by David Freestone

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013

ISBN

1-283-85412-0

90-04-20233-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (387 p.)

Collana

Legal aspects of sustainable development ; ; 14

Disciplina

343.07

Soggetti

Sustainable development - Law and legislation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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