Environmentalists and development advocates have decried the World Bank's announcement of support for renewable energy as mere spin. Stating that the proposed increase is marginal at best and does nothing to address the Bank's ongoing bias towards fossil fuels, the groups called on the Bank to adopt the recommendations of its own studies and phase out support for coal and oil while dramatically increasing its support for renewable energy. "Marginally increasing the funding for renewables is not enough because the World Bank's own numbers show that lending for polluting fuels is growing even faster." said Stephan Singer of WWF International.