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Environmental Transformation Fund: Sustainable Development

Volume 469: debated on Tuesday 11 December 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how he plans to ensure that projects funded by the Environmental Transformation Fund—International Window meet sustainability standards. (172600)

The £800 million Environmental Transformation Fund International Window (ETF-IW) will support development and poverty reduction through better environmental protection and help poor countries respond to climate change. We want to make the ETF-IW part of a wider multilateral effort and we are working with the World Bank, recipient countries, implementing agencies and key stakeholders on the design of a new multi-donor trust fund.

During this design process, criteria will be agreed to ensure that all the investments made from the fund are sustainable, support poverty reduction and maximise environmental transformation. All investments made from the multi-donor fund will also need to meet the Equator Principles as well as the safeguard standards of the World Bank and the respective implementing agencies.