What role should environmental considerations play in evaluation?
Environmental considerations must be implemented across all our evaluation work in a strategically selective way for maximum impact.
🎧 Lessons on creating an enabling environment for private sector climate action
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Climate change caused by the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs) is an urgent challenge, and the poorest communities around the world are likely to be hit the…
What does the evidence say on enabling private capital for climate action?
New insights on how governments can best address barriers to the flow of private capital for climate action.
🎧 Boosting Energy Efficiency to Power a Green Future
Boosting energy efficiency is critical for addressing climate change. The energy sector is estimated to account for more than two-thirds of total greenhouse gas emissions globally and improving energy efficiency…
Untapped potential for decarbonization: Scaling up energy efficiency
Using less energy to do the same work is the single action with the biggest potential gain on decreasing the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere. A new report assesses World Bank Group support for energy…
Making Waves : An Evaluation of the World Bank’s Support for the Blue Economy (2012–23) (Approach Paper)
Marine and coastal resources are critical for human survival. Oceans provide at least half of the oxygen on Earth. They also regulate the climate by transferring about 10 gigatons of carbon from the atmosphere deep into…
What have we learned about job creation and fisheries projects?
This blog is part of a two-part series based on the results of a Learning Engagement focused on ways to increase the contribution of World Bank crop agriculture and fisheries projects to job creation and economic…
🎧 Lessons from Shifting Paradigms in Disaster Risk Reduction
Disasters caused by natural hazards increasingly threaten the lives and livelihoods of the world’s poor. Climate change is exacerbating the severity and impact of disasters by contributing to more destructive…
Towards greener travel for the holidays and beyond
The Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) recently published an Evaluation Insight Note (EIN) exploring the key challenges and opportunities in the World Bank’s support for decarbonizing transport. The EIN is a new product…
Ukraine: Lessons to inform the (hopefully) not too distant future
An evaluation of a decade of World Bank Group support for Ukraine has important lessons for eventual stabilization and reconstruction.