World Bank Group Interactions with Environmentalists: Changing Interna-tional Organisation Identities

摘要

In one of many great scenes in the classic movie, A Lion in Winter, Katherine Hepburn, as Eleanor of Aquitaine, surveys her threatening sons and remarks, "Dear, dear. Whatever shall we do with Mother?" Advocates of sustainable development have often felt the same way about the World Bank. The Bank possesses a mother lode of economic resources, formal mandates, and practical relationships that can help initiate or finance large scale projects that could facilitate sustainable development—from sustainable energy to water conservation to climate adaptation.