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Where Is the Value in the Chain? Pathways out of Plastic Pollution aims to support policy makers in their efforts to … address plastic pollution. By examining the economic and financial implications of plastic management, the report provides key … recommendations on how to create a comprehensive approach to addressing plastic pollution and to help policy makers make informed …
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omnipresence in the environment. Marine litter and plastic pollution have attracted much attention and commitments from governments … and the private sector alike in the past few years. Policies to curb plastic pollution have had limited success in many … address plastic pollution. By examining the economic and financial implications of plastic management, the report provides key …
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-efficiency purposes. The target audience is World Bank staff and stakeholders who are supporting the implementation of a resource … energy-efficiency issues as this is the particular focus of the World Bank's Climate Competitive Industries program, and is …
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El Salvador, a small country with limited national resources, needs to grow through its main comparative advantage, which is its strong culture of competitive businesses. To do so, however, the government needs to ensure that the best affordable environmental management is in place to secure...
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This policy note was prepared in parallel to the report Pakistan at 100, Shaping the Future. The report Pakistan at 100 discusses options to accelerate and sustain growth in Pakistan so that the country becomes an upper middle-income country when it turns 100 years old in 2047. This policy note...
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underpin the development of future World Bank operations in the environment sector; and (iii) to serve as an initial analysis … wide analysis undertaken by the World Bank in 2003, an environment sector policy note prepared by the World Bank in 2010 … carried out by the World Bank in related sectors including governance analyses of the mining and forestry sectors, a national …
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identified and estimated in this report are (1) illness and premature mortality caused by air pollution (indoor and outdoor … pollution, including particulate matter and lead, (2) water supply, sanitation and hygiene, (3) indoor air pollution, (4 …
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Somalia's natural capital is under substantial pressure from inappropriate land uses, conflict, and climate change. In its Ninth National Development Plan (Somalia NDP-9), the government of Somalia has identified vulnerability to environmental shocks as one of the six major causes of poverty....
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The World Bank Group (WBG) has been active in public and private sector pollution management for the past several … improved the management of solid and hazardous waste and wastewater, and controlled pollution related to a large variety of … growth, and green development require that pollution management be addressed within a new context …
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Rural livelihoods in Tajikistan heavily rely on natural resources and the agriculture sector. A large proportion of the rural population depends on agriculture, and weather-related calamities are exerting increasing pressure on natural resources and agricultural sectors, the major contributors...
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