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The Challenge of Sustainable Development : Keynote Address at the World Resources Institute / Lewis T Preston.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (formerly "World Bank E-Library Publications") Available online
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- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- Preston, Lewis T.
- Series:
- Speeches of World Bank Presidents.
- World Bank e-Library.
- Speeches of World Bank Presidents
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Agricultural Productivity.
- Biodiversity.
- Clean Water.
- Climate Change and Environment.
- Environment.
- Environmental Assessment.
- Environmental Protection.
- Inequality.
- Natural Resources Management.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Sanitation.
- Sustainable Land Management.
- Water Resources Management.
- Local Subjects:
- Agricultural Productivity.
- Biodiversity.
- Clean Water.
- Climate Change and Environment.
- Environment.
- Environmental Assessment.
- Environmental Protection.
- Inequality.
- Natural Resources Management.
- Poverty Reduction.
- Sanitation.
- Sustainable Land Management.
- Water Resources Management.
- Other Title:
- Challenge of Sustainable Development
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : The World Bank, 1992.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- Lewis T. Preston, President of the World Bank, reviewed WRI and Bank collaboration to address global poverty issues. The Rio Consensus added impetus to the work on sustainable development, highlighting the environmental problems faced by the world's poorest people. The World Bank has integrated these concerns into its work, adding environmental assessment for projects financed and supporting national environmental action plans. He concluded that poverty is at the root of both development problems and environmental problems. To protect the environment we must reduce poverty.
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