TckTckTck: From the leaked World Bank report:
[The World Bank] will cease providing financial support for greenfield [new] coal power generation projects, except in rare circumstances where there are no feasible alternatives available to meet basic energy needs and other sources of financing are absent.
As a powerful funder of global energy projects--the Bank spent $8.2 billion on energy projects in the 2012 fiscal year--this decision is pivotal for shifting global investments away from coal, one of the...