Monitoring Environmental Sustainability

This report presents a concise review of the major environmental and natural resources issues at the global and national level over the coming two decades. The environmental issues reviewed include air pollution and deterioration of air quality, greenhouse gas emissions and climate change, water quality, scarcity and access, land and soil degradation, deforestation and forest degradation, natural disaster, loss of biodiversity and protected areas, and governance and institutions for environmental and natural resource management. Besides providing an environment outlook, the report tackles the issue of monitoring also from the supply side. It identifies the relevant data and indicator sets available at the global level and country level to capture the global and locally relevant environmental issues with the underlying objective of pinpointing at data gaps. It concludes with a set of recommendations for moving forward on the monitoring agenda. Overall, the threats from climate change caused by Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, biodiversity loss, water pollution and scarcity as well as pressure on land as well as worsening ocean's state and biodiversity have to be taken under close observation in the period over the next 20 years. The environment challenges that the world faces are not trivial and some of them require immediate action. Action, in turn, requires reliable and accurate information. The second part of the report looks at information from the supply side. It identifies the relevant data and indicator sets available at the global level and country level to capture the global and locally relevant environmental issues with the underlying objective of informing and advising decision making and to identify the data gaps.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Ruta, Giovanni
Format:	Working Paper biblioteca
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2010-12-09
Subjects:	ACIDIFICATION, AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION, AIR, AIR POLLUTION, AIR QUALITY, AMAZON FOREST, ARABLE LAND, ATMOSPHERE, ATMOSPHERIC MONITORING, BASIC SOCIAL SERVICES, BIODIVERSITY, BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION, BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, BIOMASS, BLACK CARBON, CANCER, CAPACITY BUILDING, CARBON, CARBON DIOXIDE, CARBON EMISSION, CARBON FERTILIZATION, CARBON FOOTPRINT, CARBON MONOXIDE, CARBON SINKS, CLIMATE, CLIMATE CHANGE, CO2, COAL, COMBUSTION, CULTIVATED LAND, DECISION MAKING, DEFORESTATION, DEFORESTATION ACTIVITIES, DEGRADED AREAS, DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, DEVELOPMENT POLICY, DRINKING WATER, DRYLANDS, ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC VALUE, ECONOMIC WELFARE, ECONOMICS, ECONOMISTS, ECOSYSTEM, ECOSYSTEM HEALTH, EFFECTIVE USE, EFFLUENTS, ELECTRICITY, ELECTRICITY GENERATION, EMISSION INTENSITY, EMISSION LEVELS, EMISSION SCENARIO, EMISSIONS, EMISSIONS FROM LAND-USE CHANGE, EMISSIONS FROM SOURCES, EMISSIONS FROM TRANSPORT, EMISSIONS GROWTH, EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, ENERGY CONSUMPTION, ENERGY EFFICIENT TECHNOLOGIES, ENVIRONMENTAL, ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING, ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTS, ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION, ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, ENVIRONMENTAL RISK, ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS, ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, ENVIRONMENTALLY SAFE DISPOSAL, ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTS, EQUATORIAL ZONE, EXTERNALITIES, FARMS, FERTILITY, FERTILITY RATES, FERTILIZERS, FISH, FISHERIES, FISHING, FLOODS, FOOD PRODUCTION, FOREST, FOREST AREA, FOREST AREAS, FOREST CONVERSION, FOREST DEGRADATION, FOREST DIEBACK, FOREST PLANTATIONS, FORESTRY, FORESTS, FOSSIL FUELS, FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE, FUTURE GENERATIONS, GAS FLARING, GASES, GHG, GHGS, GLACIERS, GLOBAL EMISSIONS, GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT, GLOBAL FOREST, GLOBAL FOREST RESOURCE, GLOBAL FOREST RESOURCE ASSESSMENT, GLOBAL POPULATION, GLOBAL WARMING, GLOBAL WARMING POTENTIAL, GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURES, GREENHOUSE, GREENHOUSE GAS, GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS, GROSS NATIONAL INCOME, GROUND LEVEL OZONE, GROUNDWATER POLLUTION, HAZARDOUS WASTE, HUMAN CAPITAL, HUMAN HEALTH, HYDROGEN, INDOOR AIR POLLUTION, INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY, IPCC, IRREVERSIBILITY, LAKES, LAND DEGRADATION, LAND USE, LANDFILL, LANDFILLS, LOGGING, LOSS OF FOREST, METHANE, METHANE EMISSIONS, N2O, NATIONAL ACCOUNTING, NATIONAL GOVERNMENT, NATIONAL INCOME, NATIONAL LEVEL, NATURAL CAPITAL, NATURAL DISASTER, NATURAL GAS, NATURAL RESOURCE, NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, NATURAL RESOURCES, NITRATE, NITROGEN, NITROGEN CYCLE, NITROGEN OXIDE, NUMBER OF PEOPLE, NUTRIENTS, OCEANS, OIL, OLD MINES, OZONE DEPLETION, PARTICULATE, PARTICULATE MATTER, PERFLUOROCARBON, PESTICIDES, PH, PHOSPHATES, PHOSPHOROUS, PM10, POPULATION GROWTH, POPULATION GROWTH RATE, POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTION, POWER GENERATION INDUSTRY, POWER SOURCES, PRECIPITATION, PROGRESS, RAIN, RAINFALL, RECYCLING, REDUCING EMISSIONS, RENEWABLE RESOURCES, RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS, SOIL DEGRADATION, SOIL EROSION, SULFUR, SULFUR DIOXIDE, SURFACE TEMPERATURE, SUSPENDED PARTICLES, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SUSTAINABLE USE, TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE, TEMPERATURE, TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES, THERMAL EMISSION, TIMBER, TRANSPORT SECTOR, TROPICAL DEFORESTATION, TROPICAL FORESTS, TROPICS, TROPOSPHERIC OZONE, UNEP, URBAN AIR POLLUTION, URBAN AREAS, URBAN DWELLERS, URBAN POPULATION, URBAN POPULATION GROWTH, URBANIZATION, VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, WASTE DISPOSAL, WASTE MANAGEMENT, WATER POLLUTION, WATER QUALITY, WATER RESOURCES, WIND, WMO, WOOD FUEL, WOOD PRODUCTS, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, WORLD POPULATION, WORLD POPULATION GROWTH,
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/402141468330904054/Monitoring-environmental-sustainability-trends-challenges-and-the-way-forward https://hdl.handle.net/10986/27445
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