The Biodiversity, Ecosystems, and Landscape Assessment (BELA) initiative, launched in June 2021, promoted the use of ecosystem-services-informed landscape analytics and project planning to enhance the...
Zambia is a country richly endowed with natural resources, and home to a substantial protected area network. Approximately 40 percent of the country’s land area enjoys some form of protection, with globally...
Nature-based tourism (NBT) plays an important role in sustainable development. It can support poverty alleviation, economic growth, and biodiversity conservation and contribute to key global agreements...
Brazil is the most megadiverse country in the world. It is home to one-third of the world’s tropical rainforests, twenty percent of the world’s freshwater, and has the world’s most biodiverse terrestrial...
Protected areas are key to any global effort to conserve biodiversity. While governments see protected areas as key to addressing biodiversity loss, they are often overlooked in economic development plans...
The South Asia Human Capital Plan acknowledges the great strides the region has made in investing in human capital but highlights the deficits that remain. Given current quality, coverage, and effectiveness...
Air pollution presents an increasingly apparent challenge to health and development across the globe. Exposure to PM2.5 is a major health risk and worldwide, an estimated 4.13-5.39 million people died...
Nature-based tourism (NBT) plays an important role in sustainable development. It can support poverty alleviation, economic growth, and biodiversity conservation and contribute to key global agreements...
Fire has been a part of India’s landscape since time immemorial and can play a vital role in healthy forests, recycling nutrients, helping tree species regenerate, removing invasive weeds and pathogens...
This report is meant to inform a joint publication by the World Bank and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) on the economic costs of air pollution. Air pollution is a global challenge and...
Bhutan has recently made significant progress in sustaining economic growth and reducing poverty. Bhutan also has valuable deposits of primary materials including dolomite, lime stone, gypsum, quartzite...
One of the key indicators in the little green data book, Adjusted Net Savings (ANS), allows countries to do just that. Also known as genuine savings, ANS shows whether a country is on the path to sustainable...
This year's edition of the little green data book includes a focus story on oceans and its ecosystem services, as well as estimates of global marine fisheries wealth accounts, a first step in capturing...
In order to inform the 2010 Strategy, and suggest what role the World Bank Group (WBG) can realistically play in strengthening environmental institutions and governance, this paper takes stock of WBG operations...
Even with global emissions of greenhouse gases drastically reduced in the coming years, the global annual average temperature is expected to be two degree C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. A two degree...