Highlights
IFC Reports on First 18-Month Application of Performance Standards (PDF) (December 2007)
December 13 - IFC's Board of Directors discussed findings of the first 18 months of implementation for IFC's Policy and Performance Standards on Social and Environment Sustainability and Disclosure Policy. Download the report... (PDF, 245kb)
IFC releases its first Annual "Triple Bottom Line" Report (September 2007)
The scope of information contained in IFC's 2007 Annual Report is unprecedented — for the first time combining IFC's Annual Report, Sustainability Report and Report to Donors.
Fulfilling the Corporation's commitment to continuously improve its reporting on sustainability performance, the report includes a special update on implementation of IFC's Environmental and Social Performance Standards, introduced in April 2006, and extensive new information on IFC's developmental impact. It also features best practice reporting elements such as an independent assurance statement, an online Global Reporting Initiative index, and information on the carbon footprint of IFC's headquarter offices.
Meant as a doorway to IFC's complex, ongoing activities, the report is supplemented by online information, including a new Web site showing how the Corporation is managing its direct social and environmental impacts (www.ifc.org/footprint).
World Bank Group Launches Lighting Africa Initiative; Announces Competition for Innovative Lighting Products (September 2007)
The World Bank Group has launched Lighting Africa, an initiative to provide modern lighting to the 250 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa who have no access to electricity. Read more...
IFC Publishes "Selling Solar: Lessons From More than a Decade of IFC's Experiences" (September 2007)
The publication finds that, to be successful, investments in solar photovoltaic (PV) technologies must acknowledge different market segments and adapt their products and financing accordingly. Read more...
IFC Launches Good Practice Handbook on Stakeholder Engagement (May 2007)
The Handbook draws on IFC's own learning as well as the current thinking and practices of our client companies and other institutions to provide the good practice "essentials" for building and sustaining constructive relationships over time as a means of risk mitigation, new business identification, and enhancing development outcomes. Read more...
Clients See Benefits from Adopting Sustainable Banking Practices (March 2007)
Tools to help banking clients implement sustainable practices to create business opportunities and improve competitiveness are the focus of Banking on Sustainability, a new report released this week by IFC. Read more...
ILO Convention 169 and the Private Sector: Questions and Answers for IFC Clients (March 2007)
This publication, produced in consultation with the International Labor Organization (ILO), is intended as a practical guide for IFC clients and broader private sector who operate in countries that have ratified Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples. Read more...
Developing Value 2: In Search of Emerging Markets Excellence (January 2007)
IFC and SustainAbility are launching new research into companies in emerging markets. The hunt is on for emerging-market businesses that have achieved investment-grade status through good environmental, social and governance practices. Read more... (PDF, 53kb)
Good Practice Note: Animal Welfare in Livestock Operations (November 2006)
Animal Welfare in Livestock Operations is the sixth in IFC's series of Good Practice Notes on social and environmental sustainability. It aims to increase awareness among livestock operators in emerging markets on how certain well-established animal welfare principles and practices can improve their business performance. Read more...
IFC Launches Lessons of Experience on BTC and Chad-Cameroon Pipeline Projects (October 2006)
The publications provide key environmental and social lessons and good practices for the benefit of staff, clients, and the wider private sector. For IFC, the process of identifying and sharing lessons of experience from our projects is an important one. Read more...
Equator Banks Adopt New IFC Environmental and Social Standards (July 2006)
The Equator Banks adopted on July 6, 2006 the revised Equator Principles, which are based on IFC's new performance standards. "IFC will continue to support the broad membership of the Equator Principles."
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