Wolfowitz Deputy Doctored World Bank Climate Change Reports

From ThinkProgress:

Wolfowitz Deputy Doctored World Bank Climate Change Reports

Juan José Daboub, a strong advocate of the Iraq war, was rewarded with a managing director post when Paul Wolfowitz took over the World Bank. In that role, Daboub appears to have been Wolfowitz’s designate to drive the conservative agenda.

Daboub has started to come under heavy criticism from the Bank’s executive directors for pushing a hard-right agenda that stands in start contrast to many of the Bank’s long-standing policies. In addition to his efforts to undermine family planning policies, Bank scientists are now disclosing that Daboub also tried to eliminate references to climate change in official reports:

Robert Watson, the chief scientist, said Mr Daboub tried to dilute references to climate change in the Clean Energy Investment Framework, a key strategy paper presented to the bank’s shareholder governments at its annual meeting in Singapore last September.

“He tried to water it down. He tried to take out references to climate change,” Mr Watson said. Two other officials confirmed this account.

The chief scientist said Mr Daboub, who oversees the sustainable development division, tried to remove some references to climate change completely and, in other cases, replace them with the phrases “climate risk” and “climate variability”, which convey greater uncertainty over the human impact on climate.

more:http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/25/daboub-climate-change/

Source: Reuters

STRASBOURG, France, April 25 (Reuters) - The European Parliament on Wednesday called for the resignation of World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, adding to pressure on the head of the lending organisation.

Wolfowitz, a former member of Bush's administration, already faces calls to step down following revelations he approved a high-paying promotion for his bank-employee girlfriend before she was assigned to work at the U.S. State Department.

By 332 votes against 251, the European Union's legislature added a paragraph to a resolution on next week's EU-U.S. summit, calling on Germany, current president of the 27-nation bloc, and the United States to ask Wolfowitz to stand down.

They should "signal to the president of the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz, that his withdrawal from the post would be a welcome step towards preventing the bank's anti-corruption policy from being undermined", the paragraph said.

more:http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L25699468.htm

also LBN Thread:http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2822283

So says think progress.

There is so much wrong. It is amazing how much is wrong and how short a period it took these guys to get here.

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