New on SEEN.org

July
20, 2001 -- New Study: U.S. Government is #1
Banker for Fossil Fuels
Abroad

ECA-Watch Calls
on G8 to Adopt Renewable Task Force Report and Reform
Export Credit Agencies.

Update -- IFC
IGNORES NIGERIAN COMMUNITY CONCERNS, APPROVES LOAN WITH
SHELL

May 24, 2001-- World
Bank Plans to Fund ‘Risky’ Project Involving Shell
in Nigeria.

Read
Press release
See
leaked documents

May 17, 2001- The World Bank
backs new coal mine development in China.  Read our
Press
Release or Background
Paper

The $2 billion dollars per
year the World Bank Group has invested in oil, gas, and
mining projects in poor and developing countries
presents a “clear and
present danger” to the global environment, according
to an internal Bank memo obtained by SEEN.  Read press
release and see documents.

US
Environmental Groups Protest Bush Retreat on
Kyoto

Scientists Warn of Climate
Catastrophe:
Shanghai, 20 January
2001: IPCC Working Group I accepts
its contribution to IPCC Third Assessment Report,
"Climate Change 2001: The Scientific
Basis"

Featuring

Sign
onto the Jharkhand Declaration for a
fossil-fuel free, clean energy
future.

SEEN Report
Concerning World Bank Project Approved in June
2000:  Chevron’s
Alleged Human Rights Abuses in the Niger Delta and
Involvement in Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Consortium
Highlights Need for World Bank Human Rights
Investment Screen

Read
Press on the Chad- Cameroon Pipeline World
Bank Decision

The Niger
Delta:
A
U.S. NGO Delegation Trip Report:

"Oil for Nothing, Multinational
Corporations, Environmental Destruction, Death and
Impunity in the Niger Delta"

January 27, 2000
InterPress
Service Article: "Oil Giants Once again
Accused of Abuses", draws from the report: "Oil
for
Nothing"

Click
here for more information on the state of
environmental and human rights in the Niger
Delta.

SEEN
Report:
As featured in the New York Times,
Wed. April 12th, 2000, and at:

"The World Bank and the G-7,
Still Changing the Earth's Climate for Business,
1997-1998"

More new additions to
SEEN.org

Highlights

November
26,
2000
New SEEN
Report -  Biggest Loophole in Climate Treaty May Come from World
Bank, Export Credit Agencies: Carbon
Emissions from Fossil Fuel Investments Will
Outstrip Gains Under Clean Development
Mechanism.

Click
here for press coverage on the report

SEEN's Carbon Watch Bulletin:

June 28, 2000, "Business
as Usual at the World Bank"

March 21, 2000,
"Burning
Bright in India: Tigers or Coal?"
This Carbon Watch ran in the
Ventura County Star April
18, 2000, and the Washington Times, April 19,
2000

March 9, 2000,
NGO
letter to President Clinton on coal mining
threat to wildlife corridors in Eastern
India

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people dwelling in oil-, gas- and coal-bearing
communities globally in advancing their human,
economic, and environmental rights; promoting
sustainable, equitable solutions to meet the
energy needs of the poorest; and greening
international investments for a fossil fuel-free,
clean energy
future.

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Communications

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Studies, Washington, DC and the Transnational Institute,
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