Archived Features

Giving Oceans a Fighting Chance

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Mary Barton-Dock, Director, Environment unit of the World Bank, blogs about raising awareness on the threats that oceans face including ocean acidification and warming. She also talks about the growing momentum within the international development community toward mitigating these risks that includes the newly-launched Global Partnership for Oceans. Read More »

Disruptive Innovation - An Approach Based on Real Needs

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Instead of crowdsourcing ideas on innovation, the World Bank is prototyping a unique approach in Indonesia that tries to learn the challenges linked to energy in rural communities in order to radically alter the incumbent technology. Read More »

How to Make Buildings More Energy Efficient?

With help from the World Bank Institute (WBI), capacity building efforts are underway to improve energy efficiency programs especially in the Balkans, where energy efficiency measures can reduce energy costs in public buildings by 40 percent. Read More »

East Asia’s Urban Dwellers Speak Out on Living with Floods

Flooding in Thailand in 2011.
Floods, the most frequent among all natural disasters, are on the increase worldwide. The fast-growing cities of East Asia are particularly vulnerable, with risks on the rise from rapid urbanization, population growth and climate change, says a new World Bank report Read More »

World Bank Supports Vietnam to Tackle its Climate Change Challenges

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The World Bank is providing a US$70 million credit for Vietnam to strengthen its policies, strategies, and institutions needed to respond to Climate Change. Read More »

Planning Ahead: International Workshop Supports Tanzanian Climate Change Strategy

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Tanzanians are increasingly feeling the intense effects of climate change - it impacts most aspects of daily life and the economy in the East African country, which is largely dependent on agriculture. Read More »

Global Organizations to Expand Cooperation on Green Growth for Development

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Four leading global organizations today signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create the Green Growth Knowledge Platform, a cutting edge global initiative that will identify and address major knowledge gaps in green growth theory and practice. Read More »

Turning Trash into Power in Peru

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Read more about how a landfill in Peru is generating power and help to mitigate climate change. Read More »

A View from the Top: Mountain Forests

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Environmental economist Klas Sanders blogs about the need to protect mountain forest ecosystems, particularly now while they are threatened by climate change. Read More »

Bank Sees Durban Conference Making Progress on Climate Agenda

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The two-week UN conference on climate change in Durban ended Sunday with agreement by all countries to adopt a universal legal agreement on climate change by 2015. Read More »