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Injecting Urgency into the World Bank's Climate Change Efforts

  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • multilateral development banks
•	Plans for the Metro Colombo Urban Development project in Colombo, Sri Lanka, acknowledge that the metro area is highly vulnerable to flooding. Photo credit: Travlr, Flickr 2006
  • Climate
  • climate change
  • climate finance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • multilateral development banks
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Designed for the Future?

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How Civil Society Groups Can Help Expand Energy Efficiency

  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • energy efficiency
  • public participation
Involving civil society organizations in the energy efficiency standards and labeling process could increase the uptake of energy-efficient appliances. Photo credit: Acumen Fund, Flickr
  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • Energy Access
  • energy efficiency
  • public participation

The World Bank’s New Strategy: A Call for Equity and Sustainability

  • Finance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
The World Bank's two new goals focus on ending extreme poverty and fostering shared prosperity. Photo credit: Jankie, Flickr
  • Finance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks

Global Efforts to Tackle Poverty and Climate Change Must Come Together

  • Climate
  • Food
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
This week, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will address two of the most pressing challenges of our time: poverty and climate change. Photo credit: M. DeFreese/CIMMYT
  • Climate
  • Food
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
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3 Unexpected Ways to Improve Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

  • climate change
  • Food
  • food security
  • Gender
  • poverty
  • world resources report
  • climate change
  • Food
  • food security
  • Gender
  • poverty
  • world resources report
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STATEMENT: World Bank: Promote Clean Energy Sources to End Energy Poverty

  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • development
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
  • Energy
  • fossil fuels
  • development
  • climate finance
  • Finance
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty

Strengthening Cameroon’s Forest Governance: 3 Key Challenges for Cameroon’s REDD+ Process

  • Climate
  • Forests
  • environmental democracy
  • public participation
  • deforestation
  • Climate
  • Forests
  • environmental democracy
  • public participation
  • deforestation
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Land and Resource Rights

A man fishing on a boat in a river surrounded by fields.

The Post-2015 Development Agenda: Linking Sustainability and Poverty Eradication

  • Climate
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Climate
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

Improving Freedom of Information in Uganda

  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • extractive industries
  • freedom of information
  • fossil fuels
  • public participation

4 Issues to Watch: Recommendations for the Post-2015 Development Agenda

  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations
  • Equity & Governance
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • sustainable development goals
  • United Nations

New Jakarta Declaration Aims to Strengthen Rights to Environmental Information in Asia

  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • freedom of information
  • human rights
  • pollution
  • public participation
  • Equity & Governance
  • environmental democracy
  • freedom of information
  • human rights
  • pollution
  • public participation
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On Climate Change Adaptation, Put Local Communities First

  • Climate Equity
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • public participation
  • Climate Equity
  • Climate Resilience
  • climate change
  • Equity & Governance
  • Gender
  • public participation

The End of Poverty? The World Bank and the Shared Prosperity Agenda

  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
  • multilateral development banks
  • poverty
  • low carbon development
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More Transparency Needed to End Kyrgyzstan Energy Crisis

  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • environmental democracy
  • Energy Access
  • public participation
  • Equity & Governance
  • Energy
  • electric grid
  • environmental democracy
  • Energy Access
  • public participation

An Action Plan for Environmental Justice in Latin America and the Caribbean

  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • poverty
  • public participation
  • environmental democracy
  • environmental justice
  • poverty
  • public participation

Without Land, What Would a Farmer Do?

  • agriculture
  • land rights
  • poverty
  • agriculture
  • land rights
  • poverty

5 Lessons for Sustaining Global Forests

  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • public participation
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • illegal logging
  • public participation