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Occasional Paper 7: World Bank & Asian Development Bank: Carbon Trading and Climate Finance in India
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 15:00
India is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, yet it has played a central role in a counterproductive global climate agenda pushed the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and large corporations. India now hosts more registered greenhouse gas emission reduction projects – via the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) – than any nation except China. In theory, these CDM “offset” projects – a form of “carbon trading” – reduce global emissions when developed nations avoid...
Occasional papers 6 : climate change and China : technology, market and beyond
Saturday, June 6, 2009 - 16:16
A report for Focus on the Global South by Dale Jiajun Wen China plays an important role of representing the interests of developing countries in the current climate change negotiations through the mechanism of 77+China. As the most important emitter in developing countries it is facing an enormous challenge to fulfill its international obligations to reduce its CO2 emissions, while at the same time address its domestic responsibilities to meet the human development needs of hundreds of millions of its...
Occasional papers 5 : background paper : investment liberalization in the EU-ASEAN FTA
Monday, March 16, 2009 - 19:44
by Ignacio Jose Minambres With the increasing importance of Investment Flows and the impossibility to get agreements for its liberalization at the multilateral level, the developed economies are pushing for its inclusion in one way or another in the bilateral trade agreements that are being negotiated and signed, more ostensibly since the collapse of the Doha Round of the WTO. Through the study of the agreements already signed by the EU we can foresee what will be the expectations the European bloc has...
Water democracy: Reclaiming public water in Asia
Friday, December 28, 2007 - 14:22
Essay collection presented by the Reclaiming Public Water NetworkNovember 2007
CONTENTS:
INTRODUCTION
1. THE ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK WATER POLICY: PRIVILEGING PRIVATE SECTOR INVESTMENT OVER
PRO-POOR ACCESS
2. LABOUR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION: A PUP IN BENCHMARKING WATER UTILITIES IN ASIA
3. FROM BAD SERVICE TO OUTSTANDING WATER UTILITY: PHNOM PENH’S EXPERIENCE
INTERVIEW WITH DR CHEA VISOTH, GENERAL MANAGER OF THE PHNOM PENH WATER SUPPLY AUTHORITY
4. CHINA’S ROAD TO THE COMMODIFICATION OF WATER.
5. HONG KONG...
Annual Report 2006
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 - 12:56
The Focus Annual Report 2006 has just been released.
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