A New Green Order?, livre ebook

The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a publicly funded, multi-billion dollar experiment in global resource management. It was set up in 1991 by the World Bank to fund international conventions on climate change and biodiversity.
Investigating the workings of this little known aid fund, Zoe Young takes a critical look at the conflicts involved, focusing on how the GEF's agenda relates to questions of globalisation, knowledge and accountability in the United States and the World Bank.
As our landscapes, fertility, cultures and ecosystems are being destroyed every day, Zoe Young gives a disturbing account of the complex issues that must be addressed before the world's environment can be managed more democratically - and effectively.
1. GREENING THE NEW WORLD ORDER

‘The Future Of The Earth… In Our Hands’

The GEF in Practice

The GEF in Context

2. GLOBAL ENCLOSURES AND THEIR DISCONTENTS

Globalisation and its Institutions

Aid and Development, Enclosing the Commons?

Environmental Movements

Multilateral Environment Agreements

3. CREATION OF A GLOBAL GREEN FUND

A Global Environment Fund is Conceived

The Institutional Arrangement Created

Overview of GEF’s Spending in the Pilot Phase

GEF Climate Project: Spreading Solar Energy in Zimbabwe

Unced and After

Interests in the GEF After Rio

4. GETTING THE NEW FACILITY IN ORDER

Review and Restructuring

The New Governance Structure

The New Operational Structure

The New Issues Emerging

5. PUTTING PLANS INTO PRACTICE

Raising the Money

Sources of ‘GEFable’ projects

Allocating the Money

Distributing the Money

Devolving Finance

6. COMPETITION, CO-OPERATION AND DISTORTED FEEDBACK

Inside GEF

Relations in the GEF Family

Participation and Feedback

Democracy, Science and Knowledge

7. CAN ANYONE SAVE THE WORLD?

Revisiting assessments

Saving Worlds. Within Limits

Possible alternatives to spending on a GEF

References

Index