Reports
2022
- Heat Stress in Human Labor and Poverty: The Case of Ghana, October 2022
- The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021: Technical Reports, June 2022
- Applying Purchasing Power Parities to The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021
- Analyzing the Driving Forces of Changes in Natural Capital Wealth Through Decomposition Analysis
- A Practical Approach or Estimating Marine Fisheries Asset Value
- Calculating Agricultural Value
- The Effects of Forest Degradation on Ecosystem Services
- Improving the Estimates of Mineral Rent and Asset Value for the Changing Wealth of Nations 2021
- Global Assessment of Non-Wood Forest Ecosystem Services - A Revision of a Spatially Explicit Meta-Analysis and Benefit Transfer
- Building Coastal Resilience With Mangroves - The Contribution of Natural Flood Defenses to the Changing Wealth of Nations
- The Economics of Large-scale Mangrove Conservation and Restoration in Indonesia, June 2022
- Credit Worthy - ESG Factors and Sovereign Credit Ratings, January 2022
- Sovereign Climate and Nature Reporting: Proposal for a Risks and Opportunities Disclosure Framework, January 2022
- Geospatial ESG: The Emerging Application of Geospatial Data for Gaining ‘Environmental’ Insights on the Asset, Corporate and Sovereign Level, January 2022
- 2021-2022 GPS Annual Report
2021
- Cuenta de ecosistemas de Guatemala (in Spanish), December 2021
- Striking the Right Note: Key Performance Indicators for Sovereign Sustainability-Linked Bonds, November 2021
- From Accounts to Policy: WAVES Closeout Report, November 2021
- The Changing Wealth of Nations 2021: Managing Assets for the Future, October 2021
- The Fifth Policy Forum Natural Capital Accounting for Better Decision Making: Greening the Recovery - Proceedings and Outcomes, October 2021
- Pension Systems Plus Climate Risk: Measurement Plus Mitigation, September 2021
- Unlocking Nature-Smart Development: An Approach Paper o Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, August 2021
- The Value of Landscape Restoration in Uzbekistan to Reduce Sand and Dust Storms from the Aral Seabed, August 2021
- The Economic Case for Nature, June 2021
- Feasibility of Measuring Tourism Sustainability in the Kyrgyz Republic, May 2021
- A New Dawn: Rethinking Sovereign ESG, May 2021
- Natural Capital and Sovereign Bonds, April 2021
- Toolkit for Sustainable Investment Policy and Regulation (Part 1), 2021
2020
- Demystifying Sovereign ESG, December 2020
- Spatial Finance: Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World, December 2020
- Forest Accounts of Kyrgyz Republic, August 2020
- An Analysis of Coverage Gaps in Sovereign ESG Data, August 2020
- EnviStats India 2020, Volume II: Environment Accounts, 2020 (broken link)
- Riding the Wave: Navigating the ESG Landscape for Sovereign Debt Managers, October 2020
- Valuing the ecosystem services provided by forests in Pursat Basin, Cambodia, July 2020
- Uganda Wood Asset and Forest Resources Accounts, June 2020
- Sustainable Investment: Best Practice Disclosure Checklist for Pension Funds, April 2020
- Natural Capital Accounting for Better Policy Decisions: Measuring and Valuing Natural Capital to Improve Landscape Management and Governance, 2020
- Mobilizing Private Finance for Nature, 2020
- Pension Fund Investment in Forestry, 2020
2019
- Integrating Green and Gray: Creating Next Generation Infrastructure, March 2019
- The Low Carbon Development Report: A Paradigm Shift Towards a Green Economy in Indonesia, 2019
- Measuring Wealth, Delivering Prosperity, July 2019
- The Changing Wealth of Nations 2018: Building a Sustainable Future, January 2018
Feature Stories
- 6th Policy Forum on Natural Capital Data for Better Decision Making, December 2022
- World Bank Relaunches Sovereign ESG Data Portal, December 2022
- In Zambia, Natural Capital Accounts Ensure Future Prosperity for All, November 2022
- Taking a Comprehensive View of Wealth to Meet Today’s Development Challenges, October 2021
- Mythbusters: Uncovering Nature’s Economic Value, June 2021
- Mainstreaming Nature and the Road to Kunming, 2020
- Sustainable Investment: Best Practice Disclosure Checklist for Pension Funds, 2020
- IUCN motion supports natural capital accounting for biodiversity, 2020
- Zambia can leverage on its renewable natural capital to mount a stronger and sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 economic crisis, 2020
- African nations convene to shape a Regional Community of Practice on Natural Capital Accounting, 2020
Blogs
- Data brings new perspectives to watershed conservation, August 2022
- We can no longer grow our economies by degrading our natural capital, October 2021
- Overheating pension pots: How resilient are pension systems to climate change? September 2020
- Valuing ecosystem services provided by forests in Pursat Basin Cambodia, September 2020
- Planet REBOOT: An opportunity to reshape the world after COVID-19, April 2020
- Putting biodiversity at the heart of IDA's work, December 2019
Briefs
Press Releases
Other resources
- GPS Brochure
- WAVES Partnership website | WAVES Knowledge Center
- Natural Capital Accounting at the World Bank
Annual Reports
Videos