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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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10/11/2012 Forest, Trees, and Woodlands in Africa: An Action Plan for World Bank Engagement
The purpose of this paper is to outline an approach for Bank engagement in forests, trees, and woodlands ... 		The World Bank

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25/07/2012 Wildlife and Forest Crime Analytic Toolkit
The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) is the collaborative effort by five ... 		The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC)

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05/06/2012 Toward a Green, Clean, and Resilient World for All: A World Bank Group Environment Strategy 2012-2022
The World Bank Group's Environment Strategy 2012-2022 lays out an ambitious agenda to support 'green, ... 		World Bank

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12/12/2011 Approach Paper - Managing Forest Resources for Sustainable Development: An Evaluation of the World Bank Group’s Experience
This paper sets out the proposed approach to evaluating the Workd Bank's activities in promoting ... 		World Bank Independent Evaluation Group (IEG)

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13/06/2011 World Bank: Catalysing Catastrophic Climate Change
This report is highly critical of what the authors see as the role of the World Bank in continuing to ... 		Friends of the Earth International

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03/12/2009 The World Bank and the Forest Sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo: REDD Future or Greenwash?
This is an open letter send by Greenpeace, Global Witness, and the Rainforest Foundation to Michael Wormser, ... 		The Rainforest Foundation, Global Witness & Greenpeace

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27/11/2009 Global Climate Politics in the Congo Basin: Unprecedented Opportunity or High-risk Gamble?
This report discusses the challenges and opportunities of forest carbon schemes and management in the ... 		Heinrich Boell Foundation (Korinna Horta)

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23/04/2009 Forests Sourcebook: Practical Guidance for Sustaining Forests in Development Cooperation
The Forests Sourcebook is divided into two parts. The first contains an introduction to the book plus ... 		World Bank

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31/08/2007 Final Report of World Bank Inspection Panel Investigation of Forest Sector Operations in DRC
The present Report presents the findings of the Inspection Panel in response to a Request for Inspection ... 		World Bank

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01/08/2006 Strengthening Forest Law Enforcement and Governance: Addressing a systemic constraint to sustainable development
This report arises from the need to take stock of both the Bank's efforts in the arena of forest ... 		World Bank

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16/05/2006 World Bank Inspection Panel Investigation Report into Cambodia Forest Concessions
Reports documenting the World Bank's review of its work on a forest concession project in Cambodia. ... 		World Bank

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01/01/2004 Sustaining Forests: A Development Strategy
In 2002 the World Bank adopted a new Forest Strategy. The Strategy presents an integrated approach to ... 		World Bank

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16/06/2003 Forests Monitor AFLEG Briefing
Position statement on the AFLEG process from the Forests Monitor NGO. ... 		Forests Monitor

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28/08/2000 Indonesia Country Paper on Illegal Logging - Prepared for the World Bank-WWF Workshop on Control of Illegal Logging in East Asia
This paper was prepared for the World Bank-WWF workshop on Control of Illegal Logging in East Asia, held ... 		WWF and DFID (Neil Scotland)

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NEWS

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27/11/2012 The World Bank And UN-REDD: big names, narrow focus
The World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility and Forest Investment Programme, together with ... 		Ecosystem Marketplace

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10/11/2012 Managing Africa’s forests for economic growth and climate resilience
Washington - Forest areas cover 23 percent of Africa’s surface area, an estimated 675 million hectares ... 		The World Bank

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20/09/2012 Forest Fire Response Project: World Bank continues its support to sustainable forestry management and effective protection of the environment in Russia
Washington - The World Bank’s Board of Directors today approved a US$ 40 million loan to co-finance ... 		The World Bank

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11/09/2012 WB expresses concern over increasing deforestation in Bangladesh
... 		Energy Bangla, Bangladesh

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25/07/2012 ICCWC launches wildlife and forest crime toolkit
Geneva – The International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime (ICCWC) today launched its Wildlife ... 		CITES

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07/06/2012 World Bank, GEF awarded U.S. Department of Treasury honor for helping protect Amazon
World’s largest rainforest conservation initiative credited with helping Brazil achieve a four-year ... 		The World Bank

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07/06/2012 World Bank, GEF awarded U.S. Department of Treasury honor for helping protect Amazon
World’s largest rainforest conservation initiative credited with helping Brazil achieve a four-year ... 		The World Bank

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05/04/2012 Cameroon: GEF grant to achieve sustainable development for local communities in the Ngoyla-Mintom forest
Washington – Today the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$3.5 million grant ... 		The World Bank

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24/06/2011 WB donates $3.6m to reduce carbon
Jakarta - Indonesia’s Forestry Ministry has received a US$3.6 million grant from the World Bank ... 		The Jakarta Post

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22/06/2011 World Bank loans Madagascar $52 million to protect biodiversity
There are few places on earth with as much biodiversity as Madagascar -- in fact, 615 new species have ... 		TreeHugger

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21/06/2011 Norway, Germany give $90 mln to slow deforestation
Oslo - Norway and Germany announced aid of more than $90 million on Tuesday for World Bank programmes ... 		Reuters

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23/03/2011 World Bank’s forest climate fund slammed
World Bank’s forest climate fund slammed for sidelining indigenous peoples’ rights and failing ... 		Scoop Independent News, New Zealand

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11/01/2010 World Bank, European governments finance illegal timber exports from Madagascar
While Madagascar's current government has drawn sharp criticism from the international community ... 		WildMadagascar.org (part of Mongabay.com)

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09/09/2009 World Bank's IFC suspends lending to palm oil companies
The World Bank has agreed to suspend International Finance Corporation (IFC) funding of the oil palm ... 		Mongabay.com

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13/06/2009 World Bank revokes loan to Brazilian cattle giant accused of Amazon deforestation
The Work Bank's private lending arm has withdrawn a $90 million loan to Brazilian cattle giant Bertin, ... 		Mongabay.com

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19/04/2009 REDD and the rights of Indigenous Peoples: ensuring equity and participation in World Bank funds
One of the most contentious issues under discussion in current climate change debates is how to reduce ... 		Bretton Woods Project

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06/03/2009 World Bank okays $1.3 billion for Brazil environment
Washington - The World Bank on Thursday approved a $1.3 billion loan to help Brazil's environmental ... 		Reuters, featured on Planet Ark

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05/03/2009 Indonesia applies for World Bank forest CO2 scheme
Indonesia has applied to join a World Bank program that supports developing nations' efforts to ... 		Reuters, featured on Planet Ark

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24/07/2008 14 countries win REDD funding to protect tropical forests
Fourteen countries have been selected by the World Bank to receive funds for conserving their tropical ... 		Mongabay.com

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26/02/2008 World Bank develops practical guidance for sustaining forests in development cooperation
Washington, USA ' To begin to tackle the complexity of issues surrounding forests role in poverty ... 		World Bank (USA)

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10/01/2008 World Bank aims to scale up in Congo forest sector
Washington, USA - The World Bank said on Thursday it would scale up its involvement in reorganizing Congo's ... 		Guardian Unlimited (UK)

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18/12/2007 World Bank to work with China in Africa
The World Bank has agreed to work with Chinese development bodies on aid programmes in Africa and elsewhere ... 		Financial Times (UK)

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07/12/2007 World Bank admits Congo omissions
The World Bank has acknowledged a series of "omissions" in reforms it supported to promote ... 		Financial Times (UK)

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30/08/2007 How the World Bank and HSBC are investing in deforestation
DRC Back in April, at the World Bank's spring meeting, there was much talk about the plight of ... 		Greenpeace

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29/08/2007 World Bank Group's role in illegal African rainforest destruction is exposed: company implicated in Congo forest plunder posts rising profits
Washington, USA - The World Bank's International Finance Corporation (IFC) is financing a Singapore-based ... 		Common Dreams (USA)

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07/08/2007 If a tree falls, does the World Bank hear it?
Bangkok, Thailand - For all its talk of good governance, the World Bank continues to choose its words ... 		Asia Times Online (Hong Kong)

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04/05/2007 Ecological Internet's "End Ancient Forest Logging" campaign targets World Bank, WWF and Greenpeace for their role in promoting ancient primary rainforest logging
(Press Release) Do WWF and Greenpeace members realize they are supporting industrial logging of the world's ... 		rainforestportal.org (USA)

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14/04/2007 Greenpeace: Germans involved in illegal logging in DR Congo
Greenpeace has called for urgent action to prevent illegal logging in DR Congo. The environmental group ... 		Deutsche Welle (Germany)

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19/03/2007 A rainforest in danger
In 2004, more than 100 environment, development, and human rights groups in the Democratic Republic of ... 		Guardian Unlimited (UK)

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23/02/2007 Environmental groups attack Indonesian government, World Bank
Environmental groups have criticized the World Bank for a forest management plan in Indonesia that they ... 		Voice of America (USA)

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22/11/2006 Finland's Botnia gets World Bank financing for paper mill in Uruguay
Oy Metsa-Botnia said the World Bank has approved 520 mln usd in financing for its pulp mill project in ... 		Forbes (USA)

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02/11/2006 World Bank still pursuing questionable forestry agenda
Papua New Guinea - About three years ago, executives flew into Port Moresby from various provincial cities ... 		The National (Papua New Guinea)

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23/10/2006 World Bank advises better forest governance
Washngton D.C., USA - Preserving the world's rapidly shrinking tropical forests and improving the ... 		World Bank (USA)

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17/10/2006 World Bank units to recommend pulp mills project
Washington, USA - The World Bank's private-sector lender and guarantee agency said on Tuesday they ... 		Reuters (UK)

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29/07/2006 World Bank praises Cambodia's punishment for illegal logging
The World Bank on Friday praised the Cambodian government for its prosecutions of 11 people in illegal ... 		People's Daily Online (China)

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13/07/2006 Has the World Bank learned lessons from forestry fiasco in Cambodia?
Global Witness today welcomed the commitment of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz to improve forest ... 		Global Witness (UK)

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01/07/2006 World Bank to improve Cambodian forest plan
The World Bank has vowed to improve its much-criticized forestry program in Cambodia, after an internal ... 		ABC Asia Pacific (Australia)

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29/06/2006 World Bank slams its Cambodian program
BANGKOK, Thailand - A World Bank program to reform Cambodia's corrupt forestry industry instead ... 		MSN Money (USA)

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28/05/2005 Global Witness dubious over anti-deforestation plan in Cambodia
International environmental group Global Witness has said that it remains dubious about the ability of ... 		Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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25/05/2005 WWF/World Bank forest alliance launches ambitious program to reduce deforestation and curb illegal logging
New York - WWF and the World Bank (WB) today announced an ambitious global program aimed at reducing ... 		World Bank Group

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05/05/2005 World Bank ombudsman investigates forestry fiasco in Cambodia
(Press Release) UK - Global Witness warmly welcomes the recent decision by the World Bank board to authorise ... 		Harold Doan and Associates (USA)

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05/08/2004 World Bank's nod for forest concessions angers watchdog
The World Bank stands accused of recommending to the Cambodian government that the forest concession ... 		Inter Press Service News Agency

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30/01/2004 Anti-illegal logging project in Latvia wins World Bank prize
Danish NGO NEPCon was one of the winners of the recent World Bank's Development Marketplace (DM) ...

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PRESENTATIONS

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DATE TITLE AUTHOR
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23/10/2009 Forest Carbon Partnership Facility: Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment Proposal for comments Benoit Bosquet, World Bank

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08/07/2009 UN-REDD, FCPF, FIP: Creating precedents & standards Mark Cackler, World Bank

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25/01/2007 FLEG initiatives supported by the World Bank World Bank (Tapani Oksanen)

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21/07/2006 The World Bank Inspection Panel in Cambodia and the Forest Concession Management and Control pilot project Global Witness (Eleanor Nichol)

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LINKS

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World Bank Forests and Forestry The World Bank says "Forest resources are crucial to the World Bank’s mission of eradicating poverty because of their contribution to the livelihoods of the poor, the potential they offer for sustainable economic development, and the essential global environmental services they provide". This link takes you to the Forests and Forestry page of the World Bank website. Broken link

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