Managing Pollution for Poverty Reduction and Green Development
The World Bank Group (WBG) has been active in public and private sector pollution management for the past several decades. The Bank has mainstreamed environmental health concerns into its rural and urban services through projects that improved the...
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| Format: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/275631468161365228/Managing-pollution-for-poverty-reduction-and-green-development http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27461 |
| Summary: | The World Bank Group (WBG) has been
active in public and private sector pollution management for
the past several decades. The Bank has mainstreamed
environmental health concerns into its rural and urban
services through projects that improved the management of
solid and hazardous waste and wastewater, and controlled
pollution related to a large variety of sectors including
transport, industry, energy, and mining, with each decade
having its flagship issues and projects. The changing global
context illustrated by the wave of global crises, the rising
acknowledgement in different countries of the impacts of
climate change and the necessity to address greenhouse gas
mitigation, the challenges in reaching the Millennium
Development Goals pertaining to environment and poverty, and
the voices calling for new approaches through green new
deal, green growth, and green development require that
pollution management be addressed within a new context. |
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