World Bank Rebuffs Experts' Call for Carbon Accounting

Climate policy experts from think tanks and academia have urged the World Bank to begin calculating the social and environmental costs of carbon emissions from the projects it funds and to include these calculations in project assessments. But bank officials rejected the calls, saying that the calculations were too difficult and politically sensitive.

Date of Production: 
Sep 2008
Author: 
GlobalDevelopment
Length: 
6min.

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