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Infrastructure serves a community for a long time. The decisions on infrastructure investments that are made now will have impacts over the decades and sometimes centuries to come. However, future...
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"Extend and improve the use of satellite data for the monitoring of the indicators in order to reach Sustainable Development Goal 11"
Learn about Earth Observation data and methods, particularly...
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"Deep-dive into the waste segregation and collection practices being used in South Korea"
The Korean government promotes the separation of wastes into food waste, unrecyclable waste, and...
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"A virtual site visit to the SUDOKWON regional landfill - a state-of-the-art landfill that brings the concept of resource circulation to life"
Experience a virtual site visit to the SUDOKWON...
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"An energy town featuring a 2.4MW biogas power plant, a food waste effluent to biogas facility, a sludge recycling facility, and a combustible waste to energy facility"
The SUDOKWON Landfill...
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Knowledge Note
Coastal erosion is a naturally occurring processes that is accelerated by human impacts. Artificial stabilization of the shoreline, the deterioration of natural formations, the construction of...
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Knowledge Note
Results-Based Financing to Promote Clean Stoves : Initial Lessons from Pilots in China and Indonesia
Past market failures to deliver clean cooking and heating solutions, especially to low-income households, suggest the continued need for subsidies if universal access is to be achieved. To succeed,...
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Knowledge Note
The Guangxi Project is designed to reforest 4,000 ha of multiple-use forests on seriously degraded and remote lands in Guangxi. It aims to achieve multiple environmental and developmental objectives...
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The government established a legal framework on low carbon and green growth, set up a governance structure to implement green growth initiatives systematically, and established fiscal policies and...
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Pensri sells food on the side of the road in Bangkok, and Francesca is a nurse in Santiago. A generation ago both women were suffering from pollution-related illnesses, but now they’re healthy thanks...
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Indonesia is facing an environmental disaster. Fires from drained peatlands have caused massive air pollution, or 'haze', causing respiratory and other illnesses. The disruption in economic...
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A forestry project in China's Guangxi region increased coverage and reduced carbon emissions. More than 215,000 rural families benefited, from additional earnings planting trees to receiving seed...
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Aboard Mission Blue, scientist Greg Stone tells the story of how he helped the Republic of Kiribati create an enormous protected area in the middle of the Pacific — protecting fish, sea life and the...
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The World Bank Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project, or Coremap, helps communities revive damaged reefs and improve conservation efforts. Local fishermen are trained to monitor the reefs...
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"For residents of Xining, soil and water conservation are life-changing."
For residents of Xining in Western China, soil and water conservation efforts brought not only a healthier environment,...
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Many coastal communities in Indonesia find it hard to make ends meet. A project called Coremap has helped revive the coral reefs, and with it the fish population that are crucial to the communities'...
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"Why Jakarta's country logistics costs are so high?"
World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim visited two ports in Jakarta to see why the country's logistics costs are so high –...
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By 2030, up to 70% of the Chinese population--some one billion--will be living in cities. How could China prepare for that? Find the answers in the report "Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive...
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More than 43,000 households in Vietnam received access to low-interest loans and technical support to establish 76,500 hectares of forest planting under the Forest Sector Development Project...
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On August 4, 2016, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved the Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) to help protect people and the environment in the investment projects it...
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