Pollution - World Bank Group
2023年9月19日 · Air pollution is the leading environmental risk to health, causing 7 million premature deaths each year. This is equivalent to the number of people that have died from …
Climate Explainer: Climate Change and Air Pollution - World Bank …
Air pollution is the world’s leading environmental cause of illness and premature death. Fine air pollution particles or aerosols, also known as fine particulate matter or PM 2.5 , are …
Environmental Taxes - World Bank Group
Environmental tax reforms can have multiple co-benefits beyond climate (Heine and Black, 2019). For example, the reduction in fossil fuel consumption induced by excise taxes on fuels or …
Environment Overview: Development news, research, data | World …
2024年10月8日 · Addressing environmental degradation and the loss of nature is essential to ending poverty on a livable planet. A healthy environment is also key to ensure that people …
Getting to Green - A Sourcebook of Pollution Management Policy …
2012年2月1日 · 2.2.6 Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility Programs . 2.3 Financial Institutions 2.3.1 Environmental and Social Policy for Financial Intermediaries . 2.4 Judiciary …
How is India Trying to Address Air Pollution? - World Bank Group
2024年6月5日 · Air pollution poses a major health risk globally, weighing on economies and people. In 2017, an estimated 4.13 to 5.39 million people died from exposure to PM2.5 …
Pollution Management and Environmental Health Program
2020年9月4日 · Pollution Management and the Development of Prosperous Cities. This research aims to investigate the linkage between environmental pollution and the prosperity and …
What is Gas Flaring? - World Bank Group
Gas flaring is the 160-year-old oil industry practice of wastefully burning associated gas, a common by-product that is extracted from reservoirs together with oil, typically from a flare …
Addressing Environmental Pollution is Critical for Bangladesh’s …
2024年3月28日 · Environmental pollution is taking a heavy toll on children. Lead poisoning is causing irreversible damage to children’s brain development, resulting in an estimated annual …
Climate Explainer: Abatement Costs and Decarbonization - World …
2023年4月20日 · Abatement costs have emerged as a key tool to drive the decarbonization of economies, reduce its cost, and to assess the efficiency of a technology, an investment or a …