Showcasing applications, challenges, and achievements of the EO4SD-Urban initiative (2016-2020) and ascertaining the sustainability of the program within the World Bank context.
How to approach sustainability in a post-pandemic world? To achieve long-term recovery, it is key to preserve and even accelerate the climate change and sustainability agenda for a successful post-COVID 19 reconstruction.
Juan Verde, a former advisor to President Obama, the Clinton and VP Al Gore, offers revealing insights into the lessons that the international community must learn from this unprecedented world crisis.
Economic growth is not sufficient to reduce poverty if it does not involve the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social, and environmental
The countries that contained the disease used a combination of stringent mobility restrictions, extensive testing-based strategies, and information programs to encourage precautionary behavior.
Helping countries seize opportunities—while also addressing the ongoing challenges that inhibit broad and inclusive growth—requires close collaboration across the World Bank Group to leverage private sector solutions
It is important to work in an emergency mode to respond to the health impact, but also to keep the focus on the longer term, building resilience and using the 2030 Agenda as a roadmap.
The soybeans sector faces critical sustainability challenges related to deforestation, biodiversity loss, excessive use of herbicides, and human rights violations.