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Protecting the Environment is integral to the World Bank’s mission to alleviate poverty and to sustain the quality of development. Our environment strategy focuses on three major goals:
 Â Improving the quality of life - people's health, livelihood and security - affected by environmental conditions
 Improving the quality of growth - by supporting policy, regulatory, and institutional frameworks for sustainable environmental management in all relevant economic sectors
 Protecting the quality of the regional and global commons, such as climate change, forests, water resources and biodiversity
At the end of fiscal year 2005, the core World Bank Environmental and Natural Resources (ENRM) portfolio reached 53 projects representing $ 2.7 billion in ENRM commitments (projects with more than 65 percent ENRM content), with the broader portfolio of active projects with environmental objectives or components being worth about $10.7 billion. The core portfolio focuses on pollution management, environmental health, and water resource management activities. The broader portfolio includes selected projects or project components from agriculture, energy, urban development, and water supply and sanitation sectors.
About 215 professionals, spread across the six operational regions and in a number of sector units and departments, work on environment-related activities.
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