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ADVISORY: Transforming Transportation 2022: Climate-centered Mobility for a Sustainable Recovery

  • Urban Mobility
  • Health & Road Safety
  • congestion
  • GHG emissions
  • public transit
  • road safety
Two people riding bikes together in masks
  • Urban Mobility
  • Health & Road Safety
  • congestion
  • GHG emissions
  • public transit
  • road safety
Initiatives

Beijing Low-Emission Zone

Roads with buses, cyclists and pedestrians in Beijing.
Research

Carsharing

A New Strategy to Improve Water Quality—One Targeted Watershed at a Time

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
More than 15,000 streams, rivers, and lakes are too polluted with nutrient runoff to support wildlife, be enjoyed recreationally, or serve as a drinking water source. Photo credit: USDA
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
  • Water Quality
Initiatives
This website serves as an information portal about eutrophication—the over-enrichment of water by nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorus—a leading threat to water quality around the world. Explore our interactive map and learn more.

Can Nutrient Trading Shrink the Gulf of Mexico's Dead Zone?

  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
Dead fish resulting from toxins or oxygen depletion in Lake Binder, Iowa. Photo credit: Dr. Jennifer L. Graham, U.S. Geological Survey
  • water pollution
  • hypoxia
  • Freshwater
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Greener IFC Lending Standards

  • Finance
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Women working in Sri Lankan field
  • Finance
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes
Taku River in British Columbia
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Men in Indian field
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Brazil nut harvesters
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes

Indonesia’s Ambitious Forest Moratorium

  • Top Outcome: 2011
Workers in Indonesian forest
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes
People in city center
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Outcomes

A New Open Approach to Resource Management in Gabon

  • Top Outcome: 2011
Forest road in Gabon
  • Top Outcome: 2011
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Jaipur Takes First Steps Towards World-Class Transport System

  • Top Outcome: 2011
  • Health & Road Safety
Car window view of people in Indian street
  • Top Outcome: 2011
  • Health & Road Safety
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Improving the Effectiveness of Climate Financing

  • Top Outcome: 2011
Protests at the Durban climate talks
  • Top Outcome: 2011
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Fairer and Cleaner Energy in South Africa

  • Top Outcome: 2011
Thermal power station workers in Ghana
  • Top Outcome: 2011
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset