(May 1, 2007) Ad Melkert, former Chairman of the Ethics Committee of the World Bank’s Board of Directors, disputes statements by Paul Wolfowitz and his legal team.
Notes on a scandal
(May 1, 2007) How ethical are Paul Wolfowitz’s detractors?
Why Wolfowitz should stay
(May 1, 2007) For the past few weeks, the world has been riveted by the difficulties of Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank, regarding a potential conflict of interest involving the salary of his partner, also a senior official there. With the bank’s board deliberating this week over how to handle the charges, the controversy now needlessly and regrettably threatens Wolfowitz’s presidency, which has been largely defined by his energetic support for a new Africa that is struggling to emerge.
Wolfowitz says he’s the victim of smear campaign
(April 30, 2007) “The goal of this smear campaign, I believe, is to create a self-fulfilling prophecy that I am an ineffective leader and must step down for that reason alone, even if the ethics charges are unwarranted.” – Paul Wolfowitz
Submission on behalf of Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank Group to the ad hoc committee
(April 30, 2007) The submission of Paul Wolfowitz’s lawyer, Robert Bennett, to the World Bank’s ad hoc committee.
Statement of Paul Wolfowitz to the World Bank ad hoc committee
(April 30, 2007) “I find it inconceivable that the Ethics Committee did not know the details of the arrangements with Ms. Riza. The information was certainly available to them and I assume they were not negligent in their duties.”
Dutch Rub-Out
(April 30, 2007) Verdict first, trial later: the real disgrace here isn’t Mr. Wolfowitz or Ms. Riza but the World Bank itself and its self-protecting staff and European directors.
From papal indulgences to carbon credits: Is global warming a sin?
(April 28, 2007) In a couple of hundred years, historians will be comparing the frenzies over our supposed human contribution to global warming to the tumults at the latter end of the tenth century as the Christian millennium approached. Then, as now, the doomsters identified human sinfulness as the propulsive factor in the planet’s rapid downward slide.
Chinese government, companies ordered to release pollution figures
(April 27, 2007) China’s State Environment Protection Administration will enact a new measure from May 1, 2008, asking China’s environmental departments and polluters to publish information regarding environmental degradation and pollution.
China’s environment watchdog blocks 12 industrial projects for lack of public support
(April 27, 2007) Twelve industrial projects are denied environmental protection approvals to operation on grounds that the public have not been invited to assess pollution control measures, China’s environment watchdog announced yesterday.
China environment official wants action by citizens
(April 26, 2007) A top Chinese environmental official said on Wednesday that greater citizen involvement was needed to rein in the country’s powerful polluters as he announced new transparency rules.
Carbon Boondoggles
(April 26, 2007) To reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, Canada’s federal government plans to push Canadian corporations into buying carbon credits under the so-called “Clean Development Mechanism” (CDM), a system established under the Kyoto Protocol by which companies in rich countries buy “rights to pollute” from companies in poor countries. The poor-country companies, in exchange, promise to give up their own greenhouse-gas producing activities.
EU lawmakers call for Wolfowitz to step down
(April 25, 2007) Strasbourg, France: The European Parliament on Wednesday called for the resignation of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, adding to the pressure on the head of the poverty-fighting institution to step down.
World Bank faces setback to war on corruption
(April 23, 2007) The actions of World Bank president Paul Wolfowitz have led to allegations of impropriety just when his campaign against corruption had gathered momentum.
New inquiry into BAE scandal
(April 20, 2007) A fresh investigation into the U.K.’s efforts to tackle bribery and corruption is to be carried out by a high-powered international team after the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) expressed "serious concerns" about the British government’s decision to drop an inquiry into a huge arms deal between BAE Systems and Saudi Arabia, reports Michael Harrison for the Belfast Telegraph.
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