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A New Green Order? by Zoe Young, Pluto, £12.99, ISBN 0745315488 Reviewed by Fred Pearce

SURPRISE, surprise, the Global Environment Facility probably won’t save the planet. If you have never heard of the agency, this book won’t persuade you that you have been missing much.

Its friends say the GEF is a fund administered by the World Bank to carry out green works around the globe. Its enemies say the GEF is a billion-dollar sticking plaster to protect the planet from the bank’s worst excesses, and to protect the bank from its critics.

But if the inner workings of climate…

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