Business
meeting
to vote on various nominations, most of which are from a October 26
hearing.
The World Bank has not committed to aligning its financing with limiting
warming to 1.5C. And the Financial Times
reports that the Trump-appointed president of the World Bank, David
Malpass, pushed for the joint statement by development banks at the
UN COP26 climate summit to be shortened and
weakened. The Bank is governed by a 25-member Board of Directors, of
which Dr. Kugler is nominated to be the U.S. member, replacing the
acting U.S. director Lea
Bouzis.
The State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs includes
the Division for International Finance and
Development.
Nominations:
- Dr. Adriana Debora Kugler, of Maryland, to be United States Executive
Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
the lending arm of the World Bank, for a term of two years
- Ramin Toloui, of Iowa, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Economic
and Business Affairs)
- Marc R. Stanley, of Texas, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Argentine
Republic
- Rashad Hussain, of Virginia, to be Ambassador at Large for
International Religious Freedom
- Thomas Barrett, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Grand Duchy of
Luxembourg
- Erik D. Ramanathan, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador Extraordinary
and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Kingdom of
Sweden
- Scott Miller, of Colorado, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and
Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Swiss
Confederation, and to serve concurrently and without additional
compensation as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the
United States of America to the Principality of Liechtenstein
8. Ms. Jamie L. Harpootlian, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador
Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the
Republic of Slovenia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
106 Dirksen
15/12/2021 at 10:00AM
The World Bank’s mission is to alleviate poverty and encourage economic
growth by providing low-cost loans for worthy development projects. But
the Bank has come under fire recently from some developing country
critics for placing environmental policy concerns ahead of poverty
reduction goals. For example, according to one critic writing recently
in the New York Times, “the bank’s loans for plantation agriculture in
sub-Saharan Africa and other developing regions – some $132 million of
which have gone to palm oil cultivation – have been humanitarian and
economic triumphs. Yet now, under misguided pressure from environmental
groups, the Bank is turning its back on the program.” Furthermore,
questions have been raised over the World Bank’s recent tendency to give
greater weight to input from environmentalist NGOs than from private
businesses or even sovereign nat! ions.
Join us for a larger policy discussion about the World Bank’s mission
and its environmental objectives. Panelists will discuss how effective
World Bank aid policies have been in alleviating poverty when they are
linked to environmental or other social policies. What should the Bank’s
role be in the 21st century? And how should the Congress of the United
States, the Bank’s biggest funder, shape the Bank’s priorities?
Hosted by James Roberts, Research Fellow for Economic Freedom and Growth
Speakers
- Ron Bailey, Science Correspondent, Reason Magazine
- Nick Schulz, Editor-in-Chief, American.com, and Author of From Poverty
to Prosperity Intangible Assets, Hidden Liabilities and the Lasting
Triumph over Scarcity
- Richard Tren, Director, Africa Fighting Malaria, and Co-Author of The
Excellent Powder: DDT’s Political and
Scientific History
Heritage Foundation
Lehrman Auditorium
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington DC
Heritage Foundation
District of Columbia
27/01/2011 at 02:00PM
With the launch of the Climate Investment Funds, the World Bank has
positioned itself as a major player in international climate funding and
policy. Speakers on this panel will discuss the World Bank’s past,
current, and potential future role in climate change, including
examinations of the Bank from Southern country perspectives. The
implications of the World Bank’s role for both U.S. climate policy and
the financing mechanism of the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change will also be discussed.
Speakers may include:
- Elena Gerebizza, Campagna per la Riforma della Banca Mondiale (Italy)
- Lidy Nacpil, Jubilee South Asia Pacific Movement on Debt and
Development (Philippines)
- Chima Williams, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the
Earth-Nigeria
- Vice Yu, Global Governance for Development Programme, South Centre
Moderator: Karen Orenstein, Friends of the Earth-US
Sponsored by ActionAid USA, Campagna per la
Riforma della Banca Mondiale, Friends of the Earth International,
Jubilee USA, Oil Change International, and
Sustainable Energy and Economy Network.
Location: Friends of the Earth-US, 1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite
600, Washington, DC
For more information, please contact Karen Orenstein, International
Finance Campaign Coordinator, Friends of the Earth US,
[email protected], 202-222-0717.
Friends of the Earth
District of Columbia
09/10/2008 at 10:00AM