Documents et rapports

Integrating Air Quality Management and Climate Change Mitigation : Achieving Ambitious Climate Action by Cleaning the Air We Breathe (anglais)

Air pollution and climate change are humanity’s biggest environmental challenges, both current and in the future. Mitigating emissions of short-lived climate pollutants (SLCP) offers opportunities to build...

Are All Air Pollution Particles Equal? : How Constituents and Sources of Fine Air Pollution Particles (PM 2.5) Affect Health (anglais)

Global studies of the health impacts of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) have been based on particle mass, but there is evolving evidence indicating that adverse health effects can vary depending on the...

The Global Health Cost of PM 2.5 Air Pollution : A Case for Action Beyond 2021 (anglais)

According to the Global Burden of Disease 2019 study, air pollution from fine particulate matter caused 6.4 million premature deaths and 93 billion days lived with illness in 2019. Over the past decade...

When the Dust Settles : A Review of the Health Implications of the Dust Component of Air Pollution (anglais)

This review of the epidemiological literature on fugitive dust indicates the likelihood of significant public health impacts from both short- and long-term exposure to both fine and coarse dust. These...

Getting Down to Earth : Are Satellites Reliable for Measuring Air Pollutants that Cause Mortality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries? (anglais)

Outdoor air pollution accounts for an estimated 4.2 million deaths worldwide, the majority of which are caused by exposure to fine particulate matter (or PM2.5) air pollution. Most of these deaths occur...

Recycling of Used Lead-Acid Batteries : Guidelines for Appraisal of Environmental Health Impacts (anglais)

Despite robust evidence documenting the tragic and widespread consequences of lead exposure, many environmental and health authorities around the world, particularly in low- and middle-income countries...

Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining : A Framework for Collecting Site-Specific Sampling and Survey Data to Support Health-Impact Analyses (anglais)

Artisanal gold mining occurs informally and therefore relies on low technologies and extraction methods lacking pollution controls. As a result, despite the fact that artisanal gold mining produces only...

World - The Global Cost of Ambient PM2.5 Air Pollution (anglais)

Air pollution is a major cause of death and disease. ‘Ambient air pollution’ refers to contamination of outdoor air; ‘household air pollution’ refers to contamination of indoor air. Ambient (or outdoor)...

Clearing the Air : A Tale of Three Cities (anglais)

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...

Opportunities for Environmentally Healthy, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula (anglais)

Approximately 4.1 million people live in the three states of the Yucatán Peninsula: Quintana Roo, Yucatán, and Campeche. Some 30 municipalities are in a coastal territory of almost 2,000 linear kilometers...

Peru - Peru First Progrmmatic Environmental Development Policy Loan /DDO : P101471 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 10 (anglais)

Sustainability and poverty alleviation : Confronting environmental threats in Sindh, Pakistan (anglais)

Sindh's environmental and climate change problems call for urgent responses. A number of feasible interventions could be carried out to address the categories of environmental degradation that have the...

Legal Framework of Environmental Impact Assessment in Latin America 2015 (anglais)

Comparative analysis of the Environmental Impact Assessment Legislation in 23 countries of Latin America.

Project Information Document (Concept Stage) - Peru: Investments for Environmentally Sustainable Development - P147342 (anglais)

Integrated Safeguards Data Sheet (Concept Stage) - Peru: Investments for Environmentally Sustainable Development - P147342 (anglais)

Cleaning Pakistan's air : policy options to address the cost of outdoor air pollution (anglais)

Pakistan's urban air pollution is among the most severe in the world and it engenders significant damages to human health and the economy. Air pollution, inadequate water supply, sanitation, and hygiene...

Peru - Peru First Progrmmatic Environmental Development Policy Loan /DDO : P101471 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 09 (anglais)

Revitalizing industrial growth in Pakistan : trade, infrastructure, and environmental performance (anglais)

Pakistan’s population is growing and becoming more urbanized. By 2020, Karachi and Lahore will each have a population of well over 10 million people and several other cities will have a population of at...

Peru - Peru First Progrmmatic Environmental Development Policy Loan /DDO : P101471 - Implementation Status Results Report : Sequence 08 (anglais)

Revitalizing manufacturing (anglais)

On a trend decline since 1960, Pakistan's economic growth is highly dependent on financial inflows of aid and worker's remittances. Manufacturing has great potential, though, based on a growing labor force...