The Inspection Panel, the World Bank's independent accountability mechanism, has released the third report in its Emerging Lessons Series. The latest report identifies lessons from Panel cases related to environmental assessment (EA) issues. The Panel is an impartial fact-finding body,...

The World Bank's Operational Directive 4.01 on Environmental Assessments (EA) calls for consulting the public on environmental impacts in Bank-financed projects. The operational directive (OD) requires borrowers to prepare environmental assessments in those categories of projects that have...

Climate change is the world’s greatest challenge today, reason why it is urgent to optimize industrial processes and find new renewable energy sources. One of the Waste-to-Energy (WTE) technologies with greater projections due to its operative advantages is hydrothermal carbonization (HTC),...

This paper presents general equations of environmental issues, environmental quality and environmental destruction. The paper employed the concepts of the Ideal Gas equation, Malthus model, IPAT model and population dynamics to relate human population and resource depletion in order to estimate...