Measured argument showing the democratic unaccountability of the World Bank and Western governments concerning the implementation of ruinous environmental policies.

CHAPTER 1 - GREENING THE NEW WORLD ORDER 'The Future Of The Earth... In Our Hands' The GEF in Practice The GEF in Context CHAPTER 2 - GLOBAL ENCLOSURES AND THEIR DISCONTENTS Globalisation and its Institutions Aid and Development, Enclosing the Commons? Environmental Movements Multilateral Environment Agreements CHAPTER 3 - CREATION OF A GLOBAL GREEN FUND A Global Environment Fund is Conceived The Institutional Arrangement Created Overview of GEF's Spending in the Pilot Phase GEF Climate Project: Spreading Solar Energy in Zimbabwe Unced and After Interests in the GEF After Rio CHAPTER 4 - GETTING THE NEW FACILITY IN ORDER Review and Restructuring The New Governance Structure The New Operational Structure The New Issues Emerging CHAPTER 5 - PUTTING PLANS INTO PRACTICE Raising the Money Sources of 'GEFable' projects Allocating the Money Distributing the Money Devolving Finance CHAPTER 6 - COMPETITION, CO-OPERATION AND DISTORTED FEEDBACK Inside GEF Relations in the GEF Family Participation and Feedback Democracy, Science and Knowledge CHAPTER 7 - CAN ANYONE SAVE THE WORLD? Revisiting assessments Saving Worlds - Within Limits Possible alternatives to spending on a GEF References IndeX