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  • Earth Day 2017 – Five Facts for Your Environmental and Climate Literacy
    1. A healthy environment is fundamental to poverty reduction. Environmental income accounts for about 28 percent of income worldwide, with particular importance for low-income households. Three-quarters...
    Date: April 22, 2017 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • GEF Grant to Assist China’s Efforts to Phase Out POPs
    WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 2017 — The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $24.25 million grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF) to support China’s efforts to reduce perfluorooctane...
    Date: April 7, 2017 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Air Pollution from Agricultural and Other Sources: An Interview with Markus Amann
    Markus Amann is the Program Director of the Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases Program. He also serves as the head of the Centre for Integrated Assessment Modelling of the European Monitoring and Evaluation...
    Date: December 12, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • 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
  • A Commitment to Grow Green and Address Climate Change in Vietnam
    It’s visible in the masks that motorcyclists wear on their faces to protect their lungs, on the energy efficiency stickers on consumer goods, and in a host of new government laws and regulations: there...
    Date: November 8, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Air Pollution Costs for Non-Economists: A small glossary for a big and costly problem
    Can welfare losses and forgone labor output be added together to give a fuller picture of air pollution costs? Welfare losses and forgone labor output should not be added together because they are...
    Date: September 9, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Air Pollution Deaths Cost Global Economy US$225 Billion
    WASHINGTON, DC September 8, 2016— Air pollution has emerged as the deadliest form of pollution and the fourth leading risk factor for premature deaths worldwide. Those deaths cost the global economy about...
    Date: September 8, 2016 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Not So Simple: Why Air Pollution Numbers Keep Changing
    Air pollution data published in the Little Green Data Book last year generated wide interest -- and a bit of alarm. Could the United Arab Emirates really be the most polluted country on earth? The data,...
    Date: July 12, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • China: Hebei’s Efforts to Curb Air Pollution Get More Support from the World Bank
    WASHINGTON, June 6, 2016—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a loan of $500 million to help China’s Hebei Province reduce air pollutants. “Hebei has the highest annual average...
    Date: June 6, 2016 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Protecting Climate and Supporting Growth: A Challenge for Poland
    Emissions of air pollutants have become a major topic for specialized research, political discussions, and everyday conversations. Carbon dioxide, low-stack emissions, smog, and global warming are all...
    Date: February 29, 2016 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Understanding Air Pollution and the Way It Is Measured
    What is PM2.5 ? It is a microscopic particle—2.5 microns in width and almost 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair. When levels are high, PM2.5 particles form a haze in the sky, making their...
    Date: July 14, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Unlocking Clean Cooking and Heating Solutions Key to Reaching Sustainable Energy Goals
    Nearly 2.9 billion people – more than India and China put together—still use polluting fuels like wood and coal to cook and heat their homes, at a huge cost to the society, in terms of health, environmental...
    Date: May 19, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • What You Need To Know About Toxic Pollution: A Conversation with Richard Fuller
    Richard Fuller is President of Pure Earth, which serves as Secretariat for the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP). The nonprofit Pure Earth works to clean up contaminated...
    Date: April 21, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Countries Pledge to Curb Deadly Pollution at Historic Washington, D.C. Event
    Washington, D.C.—Government officials from Egypt, Germany, Nigeria and Norway joined top musicians from around the world to commit to improving people’s health by ending pollution. Pollution contributes...
    Date: April 20, 2015 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • From Santiago to Bangkok, Cleaner Air Brings Healthier Lives
    Often, environmental challenges seem too intractable and too big to even approach, but when it comes to pollution, there is good reason to stay positive. Santiago, Chile and Bangkok, Thailand serve as...
    Date: April 13, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Hebei to Increase Access to Biogas in Rural Areas with Help from World Bank
    WASHINGTON, March 13, 2015— About 96,100 rural households in China’s Hebei Province will gain access to clean, easy-to-use biogas for cooking, with help from a $71.5 million loan approved by the World...
    Date: March 13, 2015 Type: Press Release Language: English
  • Clean Air and Healthy Lungs: How to Better Tackle Air Pollution
    When you hear about deadly air pollution, your mind is likely to turn to smog filled cityscapes and congested highways. Cities in India and China have become iconic for air pollution challenges and the...
    Date: February 19, 2015 Type: Feature Story Language: English
  • Cleaner Cook Stoves for a Healthier Indonesia
    Yogyakarta, Indonesia, November 3, 2014 – Ratinem, a farmer living in Central Java, explains why she uses a traditional stove that uses tree bark for fuel. She gathers the wood, she says, from nearby fields. ...
    Date: November 3, 2014 Type: Feature Story 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
  • Measuring Wealth to Track Sustainability
    Consider this: Although most countries are on a sustainable path, nearly 45 percent of the 136 countries analyzed by the World Bank Group in its annual Little Green Data Book are depleting their "wealth"...
    Date: June 5, 2014 Type: Feature Story Language: English