Finanza Pubblica Internazionale e centrali elettriche a carbone: una rassegna ed un’analisi dal 1994 al 2009, con un aggiornamento alla primavera del 2011
Journal title RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'
Author/s Bruce Rich
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/2
Language English Pages 45 P. 119-163 File size 725 KB
DOI 10.3280/RISS2011-002008
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The World Bank and other international public financial institutions are continuing an eighteen year trend of supporting coal-fired power plant construction throughout the developing world and economies in transition. By financing this new carbonintensive infrastructure, multilateral development banks (MDBs) and export credit agencies (ECAs) are hamstringing the fight against global warming and setting back longer term efforts to alleviate poverty in the world's poorest countries. From 1994 through early 2009, the World Bank, other MDBs and ECAs financed new construction or expansion of 88 coal-fired power plants. These plants will generate roughly 791 million tons of CO2 emissions per year, or more than 75% of the 2008 annual emissions for coal-fired power in the entire European Union. According to the International Energy Agency, without a decisive reorientation of energy investment from carbon-intensive sources in developing and emerging economies, atmospheric CO2 will overshoot the point of no return for dangerous global warming, even if the OECD countries were to reduce their CO2 emissions to zero by 2030. Scarce public international financial resources in the energy sector should go to renewable technologies and energy efficiency, which will help countries grow and alleviate poverty while reducing the impacts of global warming on the poor.
Keywords: Cambiamenti climatici; carbone; Finanza; Banca Mondiale; Agenzie per il credito all’esportazione
Bruce Rich, Public International Finance and Coal Fired Power: An Overview and Analysis 1994-2009, with a Spring, 2011 Update and Postscript in "RIVISTA DI STUDI SULLA SOSTENIBILITA'" 2/2011, pp 119-163, DOI: 10.3280/RISS2011-002008