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Asia: BOP Spending and Population (% of BOP Total)

October 14, 2008

This analysis highlights differences between traditional development approach—focused on the very poor, less than $1/day—and market-based approach focused on the entire BOP.

Africa: BOP Spending and Population (% of BOP Total)

October 12, 2008

“Low income” is not “no income”.

Growing the Wealth of the World's Poor

By Jonathan Lash on October 7, 2008

With Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director, UN Under-Secretary General

The food crises of the present will seem as nothing to those of the future unless the world brings some urgency and intelligence to managing the planet’s nature-based assets.

Climate Change Brings New Urgency to Millennium Development Goals

By Payson Schwin on September 25, 2008

With world heads of state gathered in New York to discuss the status of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), climate change and ecosystem destruction brings added pressure to the fight to end extreme poverty.

When Development Causes Disease: Linking Ecosystems and Human Health

By Richard Waite on September 2, 2008

Ecosystems provide a wealth of services to human populations, among them, disease regulation. But narrowly-focused development projects can threaten these ecosystems and put entire populations at risk.

Unfair Forestry Policies Abet Poverty, Finds New Study

March 13, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Unfair government policies fail to benefit poor people who live in the forests of many developing countries. Those same policies fail even to protect forests, according to a new study.

Leading Companies Responding to Ecosystem Degradation

March 10, 2008
Location: Montreux, Switzerland

Corporate Ecosystem Services Review road-tested by Akzo Nobel,

BC Hydro, Mondi, Rio Tinto, and Syngenta

Ironically, Flood Control is Flooding New Orleans

By Karen Bennett on March 5, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Man-made flood-control systems—such as levees, upstream dams, and canals—continue to be responsible for widespread damage to the New Orleans and Louisiana landscapes.

Ecosystem Services: A Guide for Decision Makers

Janet Ranganathan, Karen Bennett, Ciara Raudsepp-Hearne, Nicolas Lucas, Frances Irwin, Monika Zurek, Neville Ash and Paul West

March, 2008

Presents various methods that use ecosystem services—the benefits of nature such as food, fuel, natural hazard protection, pollination, and spiritual sustenance—to enable decision makers to link ecosystems and economic development.

Weathering the Storm: Options for Framing Adaptation and Development

Heather McGray, Anne Hammill, Rob Bradley, with E. Lisa Schipper and Jo-Ellen Parry

November, 2007

Clarifies the relationship between adaptation and development by analyzing 135 projects, policies, and other initiatives from the developing world that have been labeled by implementers or researchers as “adaptation to climate change.”

Sustainable Development Policies and Measures (SDPAMs)

WRI’s SDPAMs initiative aims to find ways to help major developing countries find policies and measures that meet their own sustainable development goals more effectively, while creating significant benefits for the global climate.

Pesticides and the Immune System: The Public Health Risks

Robert Repetto and Sanjay S. Baliga

March, 1996

Brings together an extensive body of experimental and epidemiological research from around the world documenting the effects of widely used pesticides on the immune system and the attendant health risks.

Global Biodiversity Strategy: Guidelines for action to save, study and use Earth's biotic wealth sustainably and equitably

World Resources Institute, IUCN-The World Conservation Union, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in consultation with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

February, 1992

Offers the most systematic and comprehensive plan ever devised to protect the world’s total stock of genes, species, and ecosystems.

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