The Challenge of Sustainable Development
Lewis T. Preston, President of the World Bank, reviewed WRI and Bank collaboration to address global poverty issues. The Rio Consensus added impetus to the work on sustainable development, highlighting the environmental problems faced by the world’s poorest people. The World Bank has integrated these concerns into its work, adding environmental assessment for projects financed and supporting national environmental action plans. He concluded that poverty is at the root of both development problems and environmental problems. To protect the environment we must reduce poverty.
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| Format: | Speech biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
1992-12-15
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| Subjects: | ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, POVERTY REDUCTION, SANITATION, BIODIVERSITY, NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY, ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT, POLLUTION CONTROL, CLEAN WATER, SOIL DEGRADATION, ENERGY SUBSIDY REFORM, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/852641545154580125/The-Challenge-of-Sustainable-Development-Keynote-Address-by-World-Bank-President-Lewis-T-Preston-at-the-World-Resources-Institute https://hdl.handle.net/10986/31124 |
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