We will focus on three broad areas where environment, quality of life, and poverty reduction are strongly interlinked.
 Enhancing livelihoods. The World Bank will help protect the long-term productivity and resilience of natural resources and ecosystems on which people’s livelihoods depend. An example of what the Bank is doing is the Nigeria Micro-watershed and Environmental Management Project, which will support community-managed investments in micro-watersheds.
Reducing health risks. We will focus on cost-effective measures to reduce environmental health risks, including reducing people’s exposure to indoor and urban air pollution, waterborne diseases, and toxic chemicals. An example is the South Asia Urban Air Quality Management Initiative, which will develop cost-effective and realistic policies and efficient enforcement mechanisms to reverse the deteriorating trend in urban air quality in South Asian countries, and particularly to reduce ambient concentrations of fine particles—the most serious threat to public health in the region.
Reducing vulnerability to natural hazards. We will aim to reduce vulnerability by helping to prevent and mitigate the impacts of natural disasters; supporting upland resource management and payments for environmental services; improving weather forecasting and the dissemination of weather-related information; managing land and coastal-zone resources.
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