'The World Bank's Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) is releasing the report 'Environment Sustainability: An evaluation of World Bank Support,' which looks at the WBG's support for public and private sector clients with regard to environmental sustainability during the past decade and a half. '

The environment forms the basis of all global social and economic systems, and the substrate for all development activities. This paper reviews the current state of the global environment. Whilst debates about the limits to growth continue, several inter-related indicators suggest that limits do exist, and are being dangerously exceeded. While all of earth’s inhabitants depend on the environment for survival, poor people often depend very directly on the natural resource base for their livelih more...

GeSI is a global partnership of ICT companies that promotes technologies for a sustainable development. GeSI seeks: to foster global and open cooperation, to inform the public of its members’ voluntary actions to improve their sustainability performance, and to promote technologies that foster sustainable development. In alliance with GeSI’s Secretariat, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), GeSI supports companies and institutions more...