While most of the world was sheltering in place due to the pandemic in March, a hundred families were uprooted from their lush, centuries-old village in western Guinea and relocated to a hilltop to make way for a bauxite mine, backed by the IFC.
When news broke in Asheville that the New Belgium Brewing Company was being sold to a multinational beer giant, local reporting noted the sizable pay-off the employee owners would receive.
The implications are terrifying. The global assessment report on biodiversity released by the United Nations In May warned that human economic activities, including those driving global warming.
Since the early 2000s, Chinese overseas investment has been driven by its formidable state machinery, financed by policy banks and developed in large part by state-owned enterprises (SOEs). China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) continues this trend
This week the world’s biggest sugar producers, traders and buyers are gathering at a luxury hotel in Bangkok for “Bonsucro Global Week” to celebrate their journey to social and environmental sustainability.
Bonsucro, an industry-dominated multi-stake
This week the world’s biggest sugar producers, traders and buyers are gathering at a luxury hotel in Bangkok for “Bonsucro Global Week” to celebrate their journey to social and environmental sustainability.
The World Bank is having an existential crisis.
For decades, the bank was the premier development finance institution, doling out loans to developing countries without rival.
The World Bank was also a pioneer – though not always willingly – in cr
In October, Bonsucro, the world’s largest association promoting responsible sugar production, presented its annual sustainability award. At a banquet and cocktail reception attended by industry insiders, the association honored Thai sugar producer
Last week, the World Bank released a draft of its proposed new environmental and social safeguards.
While over a hundred civil society groups, development practitioners and professional associations denounced the draft as a significant roll-back
Every year around the world some 15 million people are uprooted from their land and homes to make way for “development.” This slow tsunami of human misery does not attract much media attention, but forced displacement for development projects — such
