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Expanding environment, social, and governance tools and due diligence practices can help firms better manage exposure to climate risks.
Rather than leveling an existing forest to build a new business park, JTC Corporation adopted an ecologically sensitive approach that retained the natural elements, thereby creating an environment where both businesses and biodiversity could thrive.
Support pastoralist-led governance with policies, finance, rights, restoration, and monitoring to sustain mobility, ecosystems, and grassland resilience.
Strategies include a regulatory planning framework, area-based development, green infrastructure, and community engagement.
Nepal took a whole-of-government approach in developing an effective and efficient system of expenditure reporting by local governments.
Clean Development Mechanism projects supported by the Future Carbon Fund are reducing greenhouse gas emissions while delivering social, environmental, and economic co-benefits that contribute to sustainable development.
To obtain development gains through digital investments, invest in their analog complements: policy and infrastructure.
Ciclovia, Bogota's car-free days, has inspired more than 100 cities to make space for walking and cycling to improve public health and the environment.
In Bangladesh, improvements in rural roads and markets paved the way for women’s empowerment.
Mobile remittances offer a way to provide unbanked populations with affordable, secure, and accessible financial services.