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About Us
Protecting the Environment is one of six main principles in the World Bank’s mission to alleviate poverty and to sustain the quality of development. Our strategy focuses on three major goals:
- Improving the quality of life - people's health, livelihood and vulnerability - affected by environmental conditions
- Improving the quality of growth - by supporting policy, regulatory, and institutional frameworks for sustainable environmental management and by promoting sustainable private development
- Protecting the quality of the regional and global commons, such as climate change, forests, water resources and biodiversity
By the middle of fiscal year 2004, the World Bank's portfolio of projects with primarily environmental objectives reached $3.6 billion, with a broader portfolio of projects with environmental objectives or components being worth about $12.1 billion. The core portfolio focuses on natural resource management, pollution/waste management, and institutional development activities. The broader portfolio includes selected projects or project components from agriculture, energy, urban development, and water supply and sanitation sectors.
About 250 professionals, spread across the six operational regions and in a number of sector units and departments, work on Environment-related activities. Our expertise spans a broad range of disciplines and concerns, yet our strategy for environmental protection focuses on three major goals:
The links on the right contain more information about the World Bank's principles, an organization chart of the units within the Environment Family, and descriptions of issues related to environmental work in the organization.
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