New Green Order?

Zoe Young has researched and written about the GEF for several years with the University of Hull, and co-directed the documentary Suits and Savages - Why the World Bank Won't Save the World. She is the author of A New Green Order?: The World Bank and the Politics of the Global Environment Facility (Pluto, 2002).

'By weaving first hand encounters, science and their differing culture perspectives the authors have created an illuminating, heartfelt and highly profound book'

• 1. GREENING THE NEW WORLD ORDER‘The Future Of The Earth… In Our Hands’The GEF in PracticeThe GEF in Context2. GLOBAL ENCLOSURES AND THEIR DISCONTENTSGlobalisation and its InstitutionsAid and Development, Enclosing the Commons?Environmental MovementsMultilateral Environment Agreements3. CREATION OF A GLOBAL GREEN FUNDA Global Environment Fund is ConceivedThe Institutional Arrangement CreatedOverview of GEF’s Spending in the Pilot PhaseGEF Climate Project: Spreading Solar Energy in ZimbabweUnced and AfterInterests in the GEF After Rio4. GETTING THE NEW FACILITY IN ORDERReview and RestructuringThe New Governance StructureThe New Operational StructureThe New Issues Emerging5. PUTTING PLANS INTO PRACTICERaising the MoneySources of ‘GEFable’ projectsAllocating the MoneyDistributing the MoneyDevolving Finance6. COMPETITION, CO-OPERATION AND DISTORTED FEEDBACKInside GEFRelations in the GEF FamilyParticipation and FeedbackDemocracy, Science and Knowledge7. CAN ANYONE SAVE THE WORLD?Revisiting assessmentsSaving Worlds. Within LimitsPossible alternatives to spending on a GEFReferencesIndex