Fostering environmentally sustainable development: four parting suggestions for the World Bank

Abstract

Abstract On the occasion of leaving the World Bank after six years in the Environment Department, my colleagues were kind enough to invite me to give a “farewell lecture.” Who could refuse such an offer? The points made below are excerpted from that lecture. Since the goal of the Bank is to promote sustainable development in its member countries (Northern as well as Southern, presumably), I thought it would be appropriate to focus on that question.