Global Program on Sustainability

Reports

• Assessing the Feasibility and Socioecological Benefits of Climate-Smart Practices at the Watershed Scale.
•  The Effects of Implementing Three Climate-Smart Practices with an Integrated Landscape Approach on Functional Connectivity and Carbon Storage
• Unlocking Local and Regional Development through Nature-Based Tourism: Exploring the Potential of Agroforestry and Regenerative Livestock Farming in Mexico | Spanish 
•  Rwanda Country Economic Memorandum : Pathways to Sustainable and Inclusive Growth in Rwanda
• The Effects of Implementing Three Climate-Smart Practices with an Integrated Landscape Approach on Functional Connectivity and Carbon Storage
•  Applying the G-20 Principles for Sustainable Finance Alignment with a Focus on Climate Change Mitigation
• ACTIVATING ALIGNMENT: Applying the G-20 Principles for Sustainable Finance Alignment with a Focus on Climate Change Mitigation 
• The Changing Wealth of Nations 2024: Revisiting the Measurement of Comprehensive Wealth
• Circular Economy as an Opportunity for Central Asia, Report in English| Report in Russian 
• BUILDING BACK A GREENER BANGLADESH: 2023 Country Environmental Analysis, Full report | Executive Summary
• Framework for Implementing: Green Growth in Bangladesh 2023
• ESG Integration at the Government Pension Fund of Thailand, January 2024
• Integrating the Values of Nature into Policy and Investment Decisions: Wealth Accounting of Ecosystem Services (WAVES PLUS CLOSE-OUT REPORT), 2023
• ESG Disclosure Assessment of Thailand’s Listed Companies and Recommendations for Policy Development, December, 2023 
• Assessment of the Impact of 2022/23 - Government Investments on Natural Capital in Uganda Using a Rapid Environment Economic Assessment Model, March 2023
• Jordan Climate and Nature Financing Analysis, February 2023
• Kenya Climate and Nature Financing Options Analysis, February 2023
• Uganda Adjusted Macroeconomic Indicators Report - 2021 Edition, January 2023
• Valoración de Servicios Ecosistémicos Clave en Cuencas de México, December 2022

Annual Reports

• 2023 Annual Report
• 2022 GPS Annual Report
• 2021-2022 GPS Annual Report
• 2019 GPS-WAVES Annual Report

All Reports >>

• Revisiting comprehensive wealth: Insights from The Changing Wealth of Nations 2024, March 2025
• How to Measure the Sustainability of Economic Progress, December 2024
• What’s the Forest-at-Risk? A forward-looking deforestation dashboard for Brazil’s Legal Amazon, May 2024
• Accounting for the diverse values of nature to inform biodiversity policies, March 2024
• Navigating the opportunities and risks of solar irrigation: The importance of comprehensive accounting and smart regulations, January 2024
• Investing in nature can improve equity and economic returns, June 2023 (NB: This article is behind a paywall — please subscribe to access its content.)
• 5 ways the World Bank is leading by example on nature, March 2023
• Three ways Serbia can create greener and more resilient growth, December 2022
• Data brings new perspectives to watershed conservation, August 2022
• Striking the right note: Key performance indicators for sovereign sustainability-linked bonds, January 2022
• New pieces for the puzzle? Geospatial insights into droughts and employment in Brazil, January 2022

All Blogs >>

• To Grow Strong, Grow Green| Spanish version | French version, May 2024
• 6th Policy Forum on Natural Capital Data for Better Decision Making, December 2022
• World Bank Relaunches Sovereign ESG Data Portal, December 2022
• In Zambia, Natural Capital Accounts Ensure Future Prosperity for All, November 2022
• Taking a Comprehensive View of Wealth to Meet Today’s Development Challenges, October 2021
• Mythbusters: Uncovering Nature’s Economic Value, June 2021
   

All Feature Stories >>

• Supporting Private Trees for Nepal’s Green, Resilient, and Inclusive Development, January 2025
• Indonesia’s Mangroves for the World, Best Practices in Mangroves Management, June, 2022
• Beyond GDP: Measuring the Wealth of Nations for Green, Inclusive, and Resilient Growth, October 2021
• Five Big Ideas for Mobilizing Private Sector Financing for Biodiversity, Summer 2020
• The Wealth of a Wetland: It Matters When you Measure It, June 2019

All Videos >>

• Land Use Policy Paper: Adoption of land restoration activities in Ethiopia: Understanding gender-labor dimensions, January 2025
• GPS Brochure, 2023
• Brief: Uganda Wood Asset and Forest Resources, 2020
• Brief: Updated Country Brief: Uganda, 2020
• Guidance Notes: Wellbeing and Sustainability Task Team               
• Press Release: Uganda launches a national plan for NCA and the first set of land and water accounts, November 2019
• WAVES Partnership website | WAVES Knowledge Center
• Natural Capital Accounting at the World Bank