What does it mean to reach “net zero?” A recent report by the Carbon Pricing Leadership 
Coalition (CPLC) explores how the world can decarbonize, and in particular, how carbon pricing can play a role. To learn more about net zero, the report and its findings, we sat down with Chandra Shekhar Sinha, a member of the Task Force on Net Zero Goals and Carbon Pricing and Advisor to the Bank’s Climate Change Group, and Angela Churie Kallhauge, former Head of the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC) Secretariat.
Tag Archives: Sustainable Development Goals
Stagflation Risk Rises Amid Sharp Slowdown in Growth
War in Ukraine leading to higher inflation, tighter financial conditions
WASHINGTON, June 07, 2022—Compounding the damage from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has magnified the slowdown in the global economy, which is entering what could become a protracted period of feeble growth and elevated inflation, according to the World Bank’s latest Global Economic Prospects report. This raises the risk of stagflation, with potentially harmful consequences for middle- and low-income economies alike.
Blended finance can catalyze renewable energy investments in low-income countries
Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals will require massive
investment in developing countries.
Blended finance has grown in the past decade. In 2021 it represented an aggregated financing of over $160 billion, with annual capital flows averaging approximately $9 billion since 2015. With this small infusion of concessional funding, pioneering investments become attractive to private investors.
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Global Water Security & Sanitation Partnership: Working with Country Partners for a Resilient Water Future
As the world faces a triple crisis of climate change, COVID-19, and lack of progress on the 
Sustainable Development Goals, the need for global communities and countries to work together for our shared future is more urgent than ever. The GWSP is an action-oriented think tank that works with countries to help them manage their water better for green, resilient, and inclusive development.
Sustainable Development Goals, the need for global communities and countries to work together for our shared future is more urgent than ever. The GWSP is an action-oriented think tank that works with countries to help them manage their water better for green, resilient, and inclusive development. Turning fecal sludge into a resource: New approaches required to achieve the rural sanitation SDGs
Safely managed sanitation is a focus of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is 
central to stunting reduction and early childhood survival, both identified by the World Bank’s Human Capital Index as critical for humans to develop their full potential. It is widely known that 4.5 billion people lacked access to safely managed sanitation in 2015, according to the Joint Monitoring Programme. Less well understood is that hundreds of millions more people in densely populated rural areas are exposed to significant health risk due to unsafely managed sanitation.
Leveraging technology to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
Billions of people are connected by mobile devices, with unprecedented processing 
power, storage capacity, and access to knowledge — foreshadowing stunning possibilities. 
This potential is multiplied by technologies such as artificial intelligence, robotics, big data processing, the internet of things, autonomous vehicles, 3-D printing, blockchain, etc.
For billions without formal land rights, the tech revolution offers new grounds for hope
Many of today’s increasingly complex development challenges, from rapid urban 
expansion to climate change, disaster resilience, and social inclusion, are intimately tied to land and the way it is used. Addressing these challenges while also ensuring individuals and communities are able to make full use of their land depends on consistent, reliable, and accessible identification of land rights.
Press Releases: World Bank Bond Highlights Investor Focus on Sustainable Development Goals.
Swedish Insurance Group Folksam invests in World Bank bonds to raise awareness for health, gender, responsible consumption and production, and climate.
WASHINGTON, February 12, 2018 – The World Bank (IBRD) has issued a US$350 million bond that raises funds for its development activities around the world, while highlighting four of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The sole investor in the bond is the Folksam Group, one of Sweden’s leading insurance and investment management companies.
Three New Ways to Help Cities Reach Their Climate Goals
Article published on http://www.worldbank.org on November 28, 2016.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- With the Paris climate agreement in full force, countries around the world must now get down to the serious business of addressing climate change.
- Cities – responsible for two-thirds of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and 70 percent of energy consumption – are on the front lines.
- At COP 22, the Bank highlighted three of its newest tools to help cities meet climate challenges.
World Statistics Day (and Why We Need to Invest in Them)
Below a very interesting blog post focusing on Statistics.
Better data leads to better lives.
World Statistics Day celebrates the role of statistics, the institutions and individuals that produce them, and the impact they have in designing and monitoring the policies and services that can improve people’s wellbeing.
So without further ado, my colleages around the Bank have put together 17 statistics that stand out for them – some you may know, some you may not, all of them related to the Sustainable Development Goals: Click here
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