World Bank and Sustainable Development

David Freestone is former Deputy General Counsel and Senior Adviser at the World Bank.

• Preface Roberto Dañino: former General Counsel, The World BankAcknowledgments List of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The World Bank and Sustainable DevelopmentPostscript by Dr Siobhán McInerney-Lankford2. The Environmental and Social Safeguard Policies of the World Bank and the evolving Role of the Inspection PanelPostscript by Alberto Ninio3.The World Bank’s Prototype Carbon Fund: Mobilising New Resources for Sustainable Development. 4.The World Bank’s Extractive Industries Review (with Roberto Dañino)5.The Establishment, Role and Evolution of the Global Environment Facility: Operationalising Common but Differentiated Responsibility?6.The Role of the World Bank and the Global Environment Facility in the Implementation of the Regime of the Law of the Sea Convention.7.The World Bank and Climate Change.Appendices: The Instrument of the Global Environment FacilityThe World Bank Environmental and Social Safeguard PoliciesThe Inspection Panel Resolution and the 1996 and 1999 ‘Clarifications.List of Cases before the PanelResolution establishing the Prototype Carbon Fund