Corporate Strategy, Scorecard, and Results Documents

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    GRI Index 2024
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-10-22) World Bank
    The 2024 World Bank Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index is an inventory of the sustainability considerations used in World Bank (Bank) lending and analytical services as well as its corporate practices. This sustainability disclosure index has been prepared in accordance with the core option of the GRI Standards. The GRI Index covers activities carried out during fiscal 2024, from July 1, 2023, to June 30, 2024.
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    Sustainability Review 2023
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-04-30) World Bank
    The 2023 Sustainability Review is a reflection of how the World Bank embodies its core values of impact, integrity, respect, teamwork, and innovation. The Review highlights World Bank activities undertaken in fiscal 2022 and 2023 to manage the environmental, social, and economic impacts of internal business operations. The review complements the World Bank Annual Report 2023 and the World Bank Global Reporting Index (GRI) 2023.
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    GRI Index 2023
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2024-02-08) World Bank
    The 2023 World Bank Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index is an inventory of the sustainability considerations used in World Bank (Bank) lending and analytical services as well as its corporate practices. This sustainability disclosure index has been prepared in accordance with the core option of the GRI Standards. The GRI Index covers activities carried out during fiscal 2023, from July 1, 2022, to June 30, 2023.
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    Next Generation Africa Climate Business Plan. First Progress Report: Forging Ahead on Development-Centered Climate Action
    (World Bank, Washington DC, 2023-05-02) World Bank
    The Next Generation Africa Climate Business Plan (NGACBP), launched in 2020, provides a platform to further galvanize climate action by prioritizing its focus on Sub Saharan Africa’s development challenges and priorities. The plan focuses on food security, energy, and environmental and water security while also proactively supporting countries to manage climate shocks and harness the urban transition through climate smart pathways as core strategic directions. Strategic areas of emphasis include the cross-cutting issues of climate-informed macroeconomic policies and green and resilient infrastructure. Two years after the plan’s release, this progress report aims to provide an update on the status of the NG-ACBP, highlighting key accomplishments and success stories, defining emerging areas of engagement, and setting out a roadmap for the next four years of the plan’s delivery. The latter is especially important as we ensure full alignment with the International Development Association (IDA) 20 policy commitments, the World Bank’s Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP), and regional priorities for Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE) and Western and Central Africa (AFW).
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    GRI Index 2022
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2022-12-31) World Bank
    The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Index covers activities carried out during fiscal 2022, from July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022. The World Bank welcomed many colleagues back to its facilities this year. The institution continues to adapt its work model to protect staff health and well-being while recognizing the value of physical interaction in delivering high-quality results for clients and career development. This report notes any significant residual impacts of COVID-19 on the institution’s operations and staff.
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    International Finance Corporation Strategy and Business Outlook Update FY22-24: Leaning In
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2022) International Finance Corporation
    This report provides an overview of the World Bank Group’s (WBG) strategic directions and the alignment of work programs and resources with these directions. It was prepared jointly by the World Bank (WB), the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and forms a common chapeau of each institution’s Strategy and business outlook paper.
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    A Roadmap for Climate Action in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2021-2025
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2022) World Bank Group
    In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) the rapidly changing climate is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme weather‑related events. The year 2020 saw the most catastrophic fire season over the Pantanal region and a record number of storms during the Atlantic cyclone season. Eta and Iota, two category 4 hurricanes, affected more than 8 million people in Central America, causing tens of billions of dollars in damage. In Honduras, annual average losses due to climate‑related shocks are estimated at 2.3 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). In rankings of the impacts of extreme weather events from 2000 to 2019, five Caribbean nations figure among the top 20 globally in terms of fatalities per capita, while in terms of economic losses as a share of GDP eight of the top 20 countries are in the Caribbean. Extreme precipitation events, which result in floods and landslides, are projected to intensify in magnitude and frequency due to climate change, with a 1.5°C increase in mean global temperature projected to result in an increase of up to 200 percent in the population affected by floods in Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina; 300 percent in Ecuador; and 400 percent in Peru. Climate shocks reduce the income of the poorest 40 percent by more than double the average of the LAC population and could push an estimated 2.4–5.8 million people in the region into extreme poverty by 2030.
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    GRI Index 2021
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021-10-13) World Bank
    This 2021 World Bank GRI Index is an inventory of the sustainability considerations used in World Bank (Bank) lending and analytical services as well as its corporate practices. This sustainability disclosure index has been prepared in accordance with the Core option of the GRI Standards. The GRI Index covers activities carried out during fiscal 2021, from July 1, 2020, to June 30, 2021. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has impacted the Bank’s operations and staff activities through reduced travel, an extended shutdown of its offices, and a shift in staff health services. Where significant, these impacts have been noted in the report.
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    Sustainability Review 2021
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021-10-12) World Bank
    The global pandemic has highlighted the deep interconnectedness between the planet, people, and economies, increasing the urgency of our work at the World Bank. It has also strengthened our commitment to environmental, social, and economic sustainability in all that we do. As we support our client countries to meet their development goals in a sustainable manner, we work hard to “walk the talk” in our own investments, practices, and corporate footprint. Living our core values of impact, integrity, respect, teamwork, and innovation demands nothing less. The Sustainability Review 2021 highlights World Bank activities undertaken in fiscal 2020 and 2021 to manage the environmental, social, and economic impacts of internal business operations. The review complements the World Bank Annual Report 2021 and the World Bank Global Reporting Index (GRI) 2021.
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    World Bank Group Climate Change Action Plan 2021-2025: South Asia Roadmap
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2021-10-05) World Bank Group
    South Asia is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. The people of South Asia are living through a "new climate normal," where intensifying heat waves, cyclones, droughts, and floods are testing the limits of governments, businesses, and citizens to adapt. Jacobabad in Pakistan's Sindh province was, this year, the hottest city on the planet with temperatures higher than the human body can handle. In 2020, more than three million people were evacuated to safety from the fury of Super Cyclone Amphan. At the same time, South Asia has an unfinished development agenda with legitimate aspirations to reach middle income status in the foreseeable future, which will include increasing access to energy, increasing rural incomes and managing large scale urbanization, among others. The success with which South Asian countries navigate these development transitions, while also reducing emissions and increasing climate resilience, will determine the region's ability to lift millions from the threat of poverty and vulnerability, and help the world to secure the overall climate transition.