International Environmental Law and Policy

International Finance
2000 Developments

11/13/00	Anti-dam environmental protesters in New Delhi demand to meet with visiting Bank president James Wolfensohn
09/18/00	Friends of the Earth issues a report asserting that the International Finance Corporation is failing to respond to the needs of the poor and instead catering to corporations involved in natural resource extraction and fossil fuel development
06/27/00	Asian Development Bank postpones decision on funding of a proposed Se San hydroelectric project in Vietnam to explore potential environmental damage and in light of donor countries' dissatisfaction with the development bank
06/08/00	World Bank agrees to go ahead with the financing of an oil pipeline in West Africa, despite protests by human rights groups and environmentalists
03/31/00	World Bank's Rural Week meeting presented "Poverty or Prosperity: Rural People in a Globalized Economy," recognizing rural as well as agricultural issues and Methanex Corporation Files Submission on Enforcement Matters with the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), awaiting response from U.S.
02/09/00	Greenpeace claims that Japan is conditioning development loans and aid on the export of incinerators to Thailand