Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Environmental Justice--Not!

The BBC News reported that the World Bank is working on a loan to be awarded to the Nepali government in the amount of U.S. $ 110 million (50 m-Grant, 60m-Loan) last week. The news article mentions that there are many NGOs and environmentalist opposed to the plan even though some in the government are in favor of it. Anil Bhattarai wrote an interesting article on The Kathmandu Post pointing out the ethical issues involved with the proposed World Bank loan of $60 million to be used for climate change realted programs.

I was able to find (se below) the total CO2 emission (in metric tons) for Nepal and OECD countries.
 


Data from World Bank


And here is the total loans and credits to Nepal from The World Bank Group over the last 50 years.

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