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Just released: "Little Green Data Book 2008"

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Towards a Strategic Framework on Climate Change and Development for The World Bank Group
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Environment Matters 2007
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International Trade and Climate Change
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Growth & CO2 Emissions: How Do Different Countries Fare?
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Developing Countries Brace for Climate Change Impacts
Videos - Niger: The Creeping Desert
Videos - Indonesia: Not So Abundant Seas
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New World Bank Carbon Facilities Will Help Fight Climate Change & Deforestation
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Who Will Take the Lead in Low-Carbon Dieting?

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This book describes estimates of wealth and its components for nearly 120 countries.

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Biodiversity
Climate Change
Coastal & Marine Management
Environmental Economics & Indicators
Environmental Health
Forests & Forestry
Land Resource Management

Country Environmental Analaysis
Strategic Environmental Assessment

Carbon Finance
Global Environment Facility
Montreal Protocol & Ozone Depleting Substances
Persistent Organic Polutants

Corporate Environmental & Social Sustainability
Environmental Safeguards

In the 1980s and 90s, a person in the developing world was 25 times more likely to be affected by a climate-related disaster than a person in a developed country. So far in this decade that figure has doubled to at least 50 times.

Source: Ian Noble, World Bank, based on EM-DAT (CRED) data.

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Last updated: 2008-05-12


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