January/February 2009: In This IssueClean energy municipal financing, pioneered in a handful of U.S. cities and attracting global attention, can remove the up-front costs of energy-efficiency improvements and solar installations. Aid agencies and development banks have increased aid to projects that benefit or have negligible effects on the environment and given significantly less to those that harm it. But as an evaluation of more than 400,000 development projects shows, donor nations still have a long way to go to meet their commitments. | |||||





