The development bank announced that it will give equal weight to curbing emissions and helping poor countries deal with "disastrous effects" of global warming.
Despite its claims of being green, most BRI money is still flowing into fossil fuel projects and traditional transport, evidence from a new WRI study shows.
The NutriFish1000 campaign aims to improve family nutrition in the first 1,000 days of life by getting pregnant women and children to eat small fish grown in ponds and rice paddies.
Joe Athialy
and Marco Simons –
Indian farmers and fishermen are suing the World Bank Group over the environmental and health impacts of a coal-fired power plant project.
Tomoo Ueda –
Big-scale sanitation projects don't necessarily benefit the poor, writes ADB's Tomoo Ueda. How can development banks ensure benefits trickle down to this segment of society?
Tao Zhang and Mary Anne Ocampo –
As floods in cities become more frequent, urban designers can purposefully design landscapes to withstand flooding while maintaining a community connection to water, say Sasaki's Mary Anne Ocampo and Tao Zhang.
Inadequate land rights perpetuate poverty and marginalisation, as numerous cases around the world have shown. What is the link between land tenure and achieving the aims of the Sustainable Development Goals?
To solve the global refugee crisis, it's time to begin allocating more funding to peace-keeping and building stronger societies, writes OECD's Jorge Moreira da Silva.
In an era when the world is turning its back on multilateralism, an equitable and cooperative approach to globalisation is more necessary than ever. Here are 4 ideas for changing our approach to achieve this.
Biofuels are becoming big policy and big business as countries around the world look to decrease petroleum dependence, reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the transportation sector, and support agricultural ...
In a previous articles titled "Economic Feasibility of Sustainable Non-Food Feedstock Based Biodiesel Production: Part 1 and Part 2 ",we have covered how Pongamia Pinnata and Moringa oleifera are going ...
As the world hurtles toward its urban future, the amount of municipal solid waste (MSW), one of the most important by-products of an urban lifestyle, is growing even faster than ...
The Little Green Data Book is a pocket-sized ready reference on key environmental data for over 200 economies. Key indicators are organized under the headings of agriculture, forestry, biodiversity, energy, ...
