Environmental matters : annual review

This term sustainable growth. Within this topic, we present the latest thinking and practice on enhancing the quality of policies and institutions as fundamental conditions to improve the quality of growth, as well as on environmental mainstreaming in int structure. We also look back on the World Bank's environmental work from July 2003 through this past June (our fiscal year 2004) and highlight upcoming challenges and opportunities. The overview article, by recently appointed Environment Department Director I Wa Evans, reviews progress in the implementation of the Environment Strategy over the last yea

his issue, which serves as our annual review on the environment, has as its theme long

and emphasizes the need to put environment firmly back on the broader development agenda

This year we are delighted to include viewpoints from the highest environment officials from three countries facing the challenges of economic growth and the environment head-on, a well as viewpoints from the academic world, the NGO sector, and civil society directly through the results of public opinion surveys. Our contributors include Alberto Card Jimenez, the Mexican Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, Prodipto Ghosh the Indian Secretary of Environment and Forests; Xie Zhenhua, the Minister of China's Se Environment Protection Administration: David Pearce, Professor of Environmental c at University College, London: Frances Seymour, Director of Institutions and Governance Program at World Resources Institute, and Doug Miller President of Globescan c

Each of the Bank's operational Regions has written a review of the Region's work for the fiscal year, taking a look at accomplishments, lessons learned, and future challenges and WBI have done the same For operational purposes, the Bark defines the world's Africa (AFR), East Asia and Pacific (EAP), Europe and Central Asia (ECAL Latin Americand Caribbean (LCR), Middle East and North Africa (MNA) and South Asia (SARI