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  • Exchanging Experiences to Fight Air Pollution
    This week, Chinese and international pollution management professionals are gathering in Beijing for a series of events as part of a Pollution Management and Environmental Health Business Week hosted by...
    Date: December 7, 2016 Type: Opinion Language: English
  • Cleaning Dhaka and Bangladesh's Air
    Dhaka ranks highly amongst the world’s major cities in terms of poor urban air quality. Substantially reducing air pollution could save up to 3,500 lives and avoid up to 230 million cases of respiratory...
    Date: July 24, 2014 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Accelerating Access to Clean and Efficient Stoves can Mitigate Health Hazards in China
    Beijing, October 31, 2013 - Effective strategies to scale up the dissemination of clean-burning, fuel-efficient stoves for household cooking and heating can mitigate the health hazards associated with...
    Date: October 31, 2013 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Carbon Markets of the Future are Forming Where You Might Not Expect
    In China, Chile, and more than a dozen other countries around the world, the carbon markets of the future are beginning to take root. Five Chinese cities and two provinces are in the process...
    Date: March 12, 2013 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Sustainable e-waste management, key for future protection of Brazil’s environment
    Brazilians became the 10th biggest tablet buyers in the world in 2012. In the third quarter alone, sales topped almost 770,000, a 127% increase compared with the same period in 2011. Demand for smartphones...
    Date: February 4, 2013 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Fly Ash Bricks Reduce Emissions
    Summary: Environmental and Social Benefits of Fly Ash Bricks Two Indians have invented a climate-friendly technology that produces bricks without using any coal whatsoever. The new fly ash brick technology...
    Date: December 1, 2012 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • New Protocol to Measure Urban GHGs Means Faster, Better Climate Action
    A new protocol unveiled this week on how to measure and report greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in world cities promises to be an important tool in climate change mitigation that will help countries in their...
    Date: May 16, 2012 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • World Bank Joins Climate and Clean Air Coalition
    The World Bank has joined a growing coalition of international partners working to fast-track action on reducing black carbon, methane, and a range of fluorinated gases called HFCs, substances that scientific...
    Date: April 24, 2012 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Cities Get Common Standard for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Emissions
    Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 23 March 2010 – The world’s cities now have a common method for calculating the amount of greenhouse gases produced within their boundaries.  UNEP, UN-HABITAT, and the World...
    Date: March 23, 2010 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Indonesia's Energy Sector Gets $400M from Global Climate Funds
    MANILA, PHILIPPINES (16 March 2010) – Indonesia's geothermal power capacity is set to nearly double following the endorsement of a new climate investment fund plan. The $400 million plan, endorsed...
    Date: March 16, 2010 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Bank-Led Satellite Imagery Sheds More Light on Gas Flaring Pollution
    August 29, 2007— From more than 400 miles in space, the World Bank is pinpointing the true extent of one of the planet’s major environmental problems – gas flaring. The problem isn’t new. Gas flaring –...
    Date: August 29, 2007 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Environment Makes ’Quantum Leap’ in Middle East and North Africa
    August 16, 2007— In the 1990s, concern for the environment was not a top priority in the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA). Fifteen years later, there’s been a “quantum leap” on the environmental...
    Date: August 16, 2007 Type: Feature Story Language: English