Development banks threaten to unleash an infrastructure tsunami on the environment
Laurance, Bill (2016) Development banks threaten to unleash an infrastructure tsunami on the environment. The Conversation, 6 April 2016. pp. 1-4.
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[Extract] Major development banks are funding logging, mining and infrastructure projects that are having enormous impacts on nature. Here, forests are being razed along a newly constructed road in central Amazonia.
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| Keywords: | AIIB, development banks, environmental impacts, infrastructure, World Bank |
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