Publication: Lessons from Environmental Mainstreaming : Towards Environmental Sustainability
Date
2010-12
ISSN
Published
2010-12
Author(s)
Tlaiye, Laura
Awe, Yewande
Abstract
The paper, Lessons from Environmental
Mainstreaming: Towards Environmental Sustainability was
completed December 2010. The core message of the 2001 World
Bank Environment Strategy was to support developing
countries in their efforts to mainstream or integrate
environmental considerations into activities of the economic
sectors (energy, water supply, urban development, rural
development, transport, etc.). The Strategy sought to move
beyond mitigating environmental impacts of development,
embodied in the Bank s environmental safeguards policies,
towards a progressive adoption of environmental aspects
across Bank services. The tools suggested to help the Bank s
client countries achieve such integration were upstream
analytical and advisory inputs for sector decision-making
and for improving the understanding of poverty-environment
linkages. As an input to the new 2010 World Bank Environment
Strategy, this paper aims at assessing the degree of
mainstreaming environmental activities in Bank activities,
reviewing how this was achieved, and determining whether it
helped countries in their environmental management efforts.
Furthermore, since the 2010 Environment Strategy seeks to
move the World Bank Group towards environmental
sustainability, the paper recommends illustrations of
environmental outcome indicators as part of the 2010
Strategy's results framework.
Citation
“Tlaiye, Laura; Awe, Yewande. 2010. Lessons from Environmental Mainstreaming : Towards Environmental Sustainability. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/993ea3de-1143-5681-9879-fdcb0539f02c License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”