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Environment Matters, 2001
 | The 2001 issue of the magazine focuses on the World Bank’s Environment Strategy, Making Sustainable Commitments. For the first time, the Bank has consolidated its approach to environmental protection into a single document. |
The mission of the World Bank Group has always been to help reduce poverty and improve the standard of living in developing countries, but the understanding of how best to do that has changed over the years. “We live in a time of both astonishing progress and appalling destruction” begins the magazine’s featured article by Environment Department Director, Kristalina Georgieva. The piece looks at the new Environment Strategy as being an integral part of a comprehensive approach to development. The Strategy builds upon ongoing efforts and programs, lessons from the past, and responds to a changing Bank and a changing global context. New elements of the Strategy include an emphasis on:
- Poverty-environment linkages and local environmental concerns
- Tools that help integrate environment into sectoral programs and policies, and
- Improvement of institutional incentives to mainstream sustainability in projects
Also in this year’s issue a group of staff members from each Region of the Bank has written a Regional overview, taking a close look at the accomplishments, lessons learned, and future challenges with their own work.
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