Talking to the UN Security Council about Climate Change
This morning, I had the honor of speaking to the UN Security Council about an increasingly dangerous threat facing cities and countries around the world, a threat that, more and more, is influencing...
View ArticleQuick Guide to International Women’s Day: Live Chat, Data, a Contest, Videos...
International Women’s Day 2013 comes at a time of heightened concerns globally about women’s safety in society—hence the day’s theme: “A promise is a promise: Time for action to end violence against...
View ArticleEnhancing Women’s Voice & Empowerment
On March 5, just before International Women’s Day, we mark the launch of On Norms and Agency: Conversations about Gender Equality with Women and Men in 20 Countries. This book is the result of an...
View ArticleThe Fight to End Wildlife Crime Is a Fight for Humanity
Available in ไทยElephant ivory is on the march. Not elephants, but their ivory. The elephants are left bloodied and dead on the range. So are many rangers who work to protect a country’s natural...
View ArticleTalking to 4,000 Women & Men about Gender: What Surprised Us Most
In a new study on gender equality, researchers asked 4,000 people in 20 countries to describe the gender norms in their communities and the influence those norms have on their lives and their every-day...
View Article10. BM Orman Forumuna Duygusal Başlangıç
Genellikle diplomatların ve teknokratların doldurduğu Birleşmiş Milletler etkinlikleri, bazı istisnalar olsa da normal olarak çok fazla duygusal toplantılar değildir. Özellikle birkaç yıl önce UNFCC...
View ArticleAn Emotional Start to the 10th UN Forum on Forests
United Nations events, usually crowded with diplomats and technocrats, aren’t normally those which raise a lot of emotion – though there have been exceptions. I remember in particular the admonition...
View ArticleOn the Path to Resilient Development – 2015 & Beyond
Available 日本語These are exciting days at the World Bank Group. We are getting ready to receive delegates from our 188 member countries, who will gather in Washington for the WBG-IMF Spring Meetings.It...
View ArticleWhy Finance Ministers Care About Climate Change & Sustainable Development
If you want to fundamentally change how countries use energy, value their natural environments, or combat climate change, you have to talk to the people who hold the purse strings. That’s what we’re...
View ArticleAn Accounting System Worthy of Earth Day: Natural Capital Accounting
When presidents, prime ministers, and government ministers of more than 60 nations put their countries’ names behind natural capital accounting last year at Rio+20, something shifted. Countries wanted...
View ArticleFighting Black Carbon as Oceans & Temperatures Rise
Last week, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography released data showing that CO2 atmospheric levels had briefly passed 400 parts per million (ppm) and were close to surpassing that level for sustained...
View ArticleThe Landscape for Forests after the Forum
A couple of weeks ago, I blogged about the opening of the 10th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests, in Istanbul, and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s impassioned challenge to...
View ArticleForum sonrası ormanların görünümü
Birkaç hafta önce İstanbul’da gerçekleştirilen Birleşmiş Milletler Orman Forumu’nun 10. Oturumunun açılışı ve Türkiye Başbakanı Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’ın orman kaybının durdurulması konusunun ciddiye...
View ArticleTo End Extreme Poverty, Learn from a Small Village in India
Photo: Nandita Roy / World Bank"Five years ago, I was no one," said Kunti Devi to me, sitting up straight against the wall of her one-room mud hut in Bara, a small village in India's eastern state of...
View ArticleStunting: The Face of Poverty
Globally, 165 million children under age 5 suffer from chronic malnutrition – also known as stunting, or low height for age. Much of this damage happens in pregnancy and the first two years of a...
View ArticleA Lesson from Malala: Girls’ Education Pays Off
When I heard the news last autumn that 15-year-old Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan had been shot simply for standing up for her right as a girl to get an education, I was horrified. It also reminded me...
View ArticleWomen at the Forefront of Climate Action
Mussarat Farida Begum runs a small teahouse in Garjon Bunia Bazaar, a rural community in Bangladesh. As part of a program which has helped Bangladesh reach more than 2 million low-income rural...
View ArticleGood Practices for Engaging with Citizens for Greater Development Impact
Last week I was a panelist at a civil society organization seminar during the World Bank Annual Meetings on the topic of “Engaging with Citizens for Greater Development Impact.” The task for the panel...
View ArticlePulling the Tablecloth Out From Under Development Efforts - Without Breaking...
When Cyclone Phailin struck the Indian states of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh last week, the predictions were dire. In 1999, a cyclone of comparable strength took 10,000 lives. While Phailin affected up...
View Article¿De qué color le gustaría la letrina? Marketing sanitario en Bangladesh
Las organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG), los organismos de crédito y el sector público están trabajando duro para cumplir la meta mundial de saneamiento. ¿Pero qué ocurre con el sector privado?, ¿y...
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