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Mangrove Ecosystems in the Changing Wealth of Nations 2024

This webinar will explore the crucial role mangroves play in protecting coastlines from flooding and storing carbon. The session will delve into the cutting-edge methods of the CWON technical reports Building Coastal Resilience with Mangroves and Estimating Global Carbon Storage of Mangrove Ecosystems, and introduce the underlying remote sensing datasets which are available to users.

GPS and the World Bank Group and GPS at COP16 on Biodiversity

GPS and the World Bank Group are attending the Conference of the Parties (COP16) on Biodiversity in Cali, Colombia to support the unprecedented ambition enshrined in the goals of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KMGBF). A decades-long leader on the nature agenda, the Bank is mainstreaming nature into development programs, economic policy, and strategic investments across sectors and regions, to serve as a key implementing partner for the KMGBF.

The Changing Wealth of Nations 2024

While many countries across the globe have experienced strong economic growth and improvements in human development outcomes over the last quarter of a century, natural resources continue to be degraded and overexploited, calling the sustainability of that growth into question. Is today¡¯s growth coming at the expense of the wellbeing of the next generation? Revisit the launch of The Changing Wealth of Nations (CWON) report. ľ¹ÏÓ°Ôº¡¯s CWON program provides the most comprehensive wealth database currently available, which can provide insights on the sustainability of economic progress, complementing GDP.

Global Program on Sustainability (GPS) Seminar Series

The Global Program on Sustainability (GPS) Seminar Series shares the latest knowledge on how policy makers and the financial sector can integrate environmental sustainability considerations into decision making.

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