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	<description>Bankable. Credible. Sustainable.</description>
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		<title>While BankTrack criticizes Equator Principles, IFC celebrates Community of Learning</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2011/10/25/while-banktrack-criticizes-equator-principles-ifc-celebrates-community-of-learning/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=while-banktrack-criticizes-equator-principles-ifc-celebrates-community-of-learning</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equator Principles]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In advance of the gathering of Equator Banks for the fifth Community of Learning event hosted by the IFC this week, BankTrack published its critical review: The Outside Job -Turning the Equator Principles towards people and planet. As blogged in greater detail previously, the Equator Principles are a derivative of the IFC Performance Standards and form [...]]]></description>
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		<title>European Bank Outreach to US-based Consultants in Chicago &amp; Washington</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2011/10/24/ebrd-outreach-to-us-based-consultants-in-chicago-and-washington-dc/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ebrd-outreach-to-us-based-consultants-in-chicago-and-washington-dc</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Biodiversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consultancy Services Unit of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is conducting an outreach to US-based consultants in Chicago (Nov 30) and Washington DC (Dec 1).  The EBRD is a London-based Multilateral Financial Institution in which the US Government is the largest individual shareholder (about 10%).  An AAA rated public institution, the EBRD provides debt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFC Performance Standards Revisions Entering Final Lap</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2011/01/03/ifc-performance-standards-revisions-entering-final-lap/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ifc-performance-standards-revisions-entering-final-lap</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broad Community Support (BCS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equator Principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFC Performance Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its recent CODE Progress Report on IFC Sustainability Framework Review and Update ( December 1, 2010), IFC notes that, with exceptions (such as the Access to Information Policy), majority of proposed changes are clarifications rather than material changes.  Please visit updated blog post: Remaining Obstacles to Revisions of IFC Performance Standards The IFC Performance Standards, which provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equator Principles – Only Greenwashing?</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/11/25/equator-principles-%e2%80%93-only-greenwashing/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=equator-principles-%25e2%2580%2593-only-greenwashing</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 04:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equator Principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I note that another bank - NIBC - has joined the group of financial institutions which have adopted the Equator Principles, I recalled a friendly request and equally friendly but probing questions prompting this blog entry. As I blogged earlier, the recently formed Equator Principles Association  commissioned a strategic review of the Equator Principles. This seems [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chuckles courtesy of Scotiabank and CBSR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Assurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paging through Scotiabank’s C-Level Sustainability report, two somewhat misleading lines in the CEO Letter (!) about assurance by CBSR caught my attention and made be chuckle - TGIF! The lines read as follows: “For the first time, assurance for this report’s Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) table has been provided by Canadian Business for Social Responsibility. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IFC gets out vuvuzella for sustainability reporting</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/06/19/ifc-gets-out-vuvuzella-for-sustainability-reporting/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=ifc-gets-out-vuvuzella-for-sustainability-reporting</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equator Principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jointly with GRI, the International Finance Corporation (IFC, part of the World Bank Group) published a bridging document showing how strategies, system and data points developed to meet IFC Performance Standards can be used to generate GRI-type sustainability reports. About time to help capital project developers/sponsors to leverage expensive compliance reporting to create more shareholder value! Capital project sponsors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Oil Blowout Revive Trans-boundary EIA Negotiations?</title>
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		<comments>http://prizmablog.com/2010/06/03/will-oil-blowout-revive-trans-boundary-eia-negotiations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Equator Principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFC Performance Standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will BP spill encourage 3 North American governments re-open negotiations on Trans-boundary EIA agreement, and IPIECA seriously scale up oil spill response technology &#038; stockpiles? ]]></description>
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		<title>Moving from Consultation to Consent?</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/03/12/moving-from-consultation-to-consent/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=moving-from-consultation-to-consent</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Broad Community Support (BCS)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFC Performance Standards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mining]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IFC Performance Standards require that projects with potentially significant impacts conduct ‘Free, Prior, Informed Consultation’ (FPIC) and demonstrate ‘Broad Community Support’ (BCS). Will these requirements move towards the concept of ‘Consent’ particularly in the context of Indigenous Peoples? During the March 2010 PDAC exploration and mining convention in Toronto, the Export Development Canada (EDC), hosted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equator Principles: Mining, Oil &amp; Gas Deal Transparency</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/02/04/equator-principles-mining-oil-gas-deal-transparency/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=equator-principles-mining-oil-gas-deal-transparency</link>
		<comments>http://prizmablog.com/2010/02/04/equator-principles-mining-oil-gas-deal-transparency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canadian CSR Strategy for International Extractives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Equator Principles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[IFC Performance Standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Used to more user friendly disclosure practices of multilateral financial institutions like the IFC or the EBRD, advocacy groups lament lack of deal transparency by Equator Banks. Although there is room for improvement, I wonder if the existing market transparency is already being leveraged enough.Take the Canadian Financing Bulletin (CFB) , which describes itself as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bankwatch scoring against EBRD’s Mining Projects</title>
		<link>http://prizmablog.com/2010/01/20/bankwatch-scoring-against-ebrd%e2%80%99s-mining-projects/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=bankwatch-scoring-against-ebrd%25e2%2580%2599s-mining-projects</link>
		<comments>http://prizmablog.com/2010/01/20/bankwatch-scoring-against-ebrd%e2%80%99s-mining-projects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mehrdad Nazari</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[European Bank (EBRD) Performance Requirements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CEE Bankwatch, an advocacy NGO, has been scoring PR points against the European Bank (EBRD) and its involvement in gold mining projects in Armenia, Bulgaria and Kyrgyzstan. Would EBRD’s exit resolve the allegations and concerns raised by Bankwatch - and existing legacies associated with 'brownfield mining'? The report by CEE Bankwatch, carried on human rights [...]]]></description>
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