Making sustainable commitments
Subtitle: an environment strategy for the World Bank
Publisher: The World Bank
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: World Bank; Sustainable development -- Developing countries; Environmental policy -- Developing countries; Developing countries -- Economic policy -- Environmental aspects
Description: Johannesburg 2002 must be about people, planet, and prosperity; by Mohammed Valli Moosa. Making sustainable commitments - an environment strategy for the World Bank; by Kristalina I. Georgieva. The World Bank's environment strategy consultations; by Judith Moore. From strategy preparation to implementation; by Magda Lovei. Focusing on poverty and environmental links; by Kirk Hamilton, and Jan Bojo. Protecting the global commons; by Todd Johnson. The safeguard policies at the core of the environment strategy; by Jean Roger Mercier. Regional reviews; by Agi Kiss, Giovanna Dore, Holt, Jane, Teresa Serra, Maria Sarraf, and Carter Brandon. IFC - building a sustainable development roadmap - IFC's strategy to ensure environmental and social sustainability; by Shawn Miller. News updates. The Bank's environment portfolio; by Anjali Acharya, and Alethea Mariel T. Abuyuan. Environment by the numbers; by Stefano Pagiola, and Kirk Hamilton.

The report outlines the work of the World Bank in addressing client countries with environmental challenges, and, aims to ensure the lending program integrates principles of environmental sustainability. It highlights that the challenge of development assistance lies in working with clients to implement policies, programs, and investments that distribute the gains of development in an equitable manner, by reducing poverty, and avoiding sacrificing the interests of future generations, to meet the needs of the current one, and in addition, it builds on the consensus that natural resources, and environmental assets must be managed sustainably. This environment strategy links environment and development with the qualities of life, growth, and regional and global commons, by enhancing the livelihoods of poor people who are heavily dependent on the productivity of ecosystems, and natural resources; by preventing, and reducing environmental health risks; by supporting policy, regulatory, and institutional frameworks for sustainable environmental management, and, by supporting private sector development, to help improve, and protect the regional, and global environment, i.e., climate change, land degradation, forests, water resources, and biodiversity. The strategy stresses on strengthening analytical, and advisory activities, on country-level environmental analysis, and on strategic sectoral, regional, and policy-focused environmental assessments, through improved project design, performance criteria, and capacity development, while emphasizing on the commitment of countries towards sustainable development.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-234)