July 22, 2013

The World Bank Cuts Off Funding for Coal.How Big an Impact will that Have?

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

The Center on Global Development’s Scott Morris and the Nicholas Institute's Billy Pizer think through when the World Bank should and shouldn’t fund coal. The bottom line: “The bank should be ambitious in working toward clean energy approaches in its development strategies, but it would be a mistake to definitively rule out coal in all circumstances.”