Description
The Environment Strategy of the World Bank - Making Sustainable Commitments: An Environment Strategy for the World Bank – published in 2001 sets the Bank’s vision, objectives and actions in tackling the environmental challenges in the Bank’s client countries. The strategy also includes the methods that the World Bank should include to integrate environmental sustainability in its programs and projects. The strategy has three main pillars that touch upon the concept of environmental security:
· Enhancing livelihoods where ‘the World Bank will help protect the long-term productivity and resilience of natural resources and ecosystems on which people’s livelihoods depend’.
· Reducing health risks where the Bank ‘will focus on cost-effective measures to reduce environmental health risks, including reducing people’s exposure to indoor and urban air pollution, waterborne diseases, and toxic chemicals’.
· Reducing vulnerability to natural hazards where the Bank ‘will aim to reduce vulnerability by helping to prevent and mitigate the impacts of natural disasters; supporting upland resource management and payments for environmental services; improving weather forecasting and the dissemination of weather-related information; managing land and coastal-zone resources’
Information
- Author(s)
- Ronald A. Kingham
- Publisher
- Institute for Environmental Security
- Place published
- The Hague
- Date / journal vol no.
- 2006
- Pages
- 4
