International Law & World Order: Weston's & Carlson's Basic Documents V.A.7 UNDP-UNEP World Bank Directors’ Resolution (No 91-5) on the Creation of a Global Environment Facility (GEF) (with Annex A) (14 March 1991)

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
World Bank ◽  
World Order ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Global Environment Facility ◽  
The Creation

Global Environment Facility Support for Sustainable Transport: Early Lessons from World Bank–Assisted Projects in Mexico City, Mexico; Santiago, Chile; and Lima, Peru

2003 ◽  
Vol 1846 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Graftieaux ◽  
Walter Vergara ◽  
Todd Johnson
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Demand Management ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
Sustainable Transport ◽  
Modal Shift ◽  
Global Environment Facility

Global Environment Facility (GEF) support for World Bank sustainable transport activities is described. An overview is presented of current GEF strategy for sustainable transport, which reflects a shift beyond individual technology interventions toward broader objectives, including modal shift, demand management, and land use planning. Ongoing GEF projects that exemplify this shift are reviewed by examining projects in Latin America and Asia whose aim is improving public transport, nonmotorized programs, and institutional capacity related to sustainable transport. The major lessons that can be drawn from these projects, most of which are still at an early stage, is that local authorities are often enthusiastic about getting involved in programs that simultaneously address key transportation concerns in their cities (such as access, safety, congestion, local air quality) and result in less overall energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. Much can be achieved as long as project communications and promotion are addressed and carefully targeted at decision makers and potential beneficiaries.

scholarly journals The Development of International Law in the Field of Renewable Energy

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Imam Mulyana
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
World Order ◽  
Energy Resources ◽  
Global Environment ◽  
The World ◽  
Oil Gas

Energy plays a pivotal role in ensuring economic growth, social equity and live-able environment. In this regard, the non-renewable or conventional source of energy such as oil, gas and coal continue to supply the energy demand throughout the world. Nevertheless, as the awareness of the international society towards the protection and preservation of the global environment is rapidly growing, the utilization of energy resources has been gradually shifted from the non-renewable to renewable ones. Observing the international developments in the field of energy, further international legal instruments is required to be able to regulate renewable energy activities undertaken by the countries today. Although there have been a number of rules in international law, but until recently, most of these regulations is still not legally binding. Moreover, to achieve world order that uses renewable energy, international law also had to resolve some fundamental issues, namely the issue of state sovereignty and energy security.

Recent Practice of the Inspection Panel of the World Bank

1997 ◽  
Vol 91 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard E. Bissell
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
International Development ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Actual Practice ◽  
International Development Association ◽  
International Bank ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation

The creation of the independent Inspection Panel in 1993 by identical resolutions of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association (World Bank or Bank) has been well analyzed elsewhere. What has not been noted is the actual practice of the Inspection Panel, as well as the evolving impact on international law of the cases brought before this innovative institution associated with the World Bank.

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